Garden City Harvest - grow.feed.inspire

Our Programs

	Community Education educates our community through internships, school garden curriculum, farm field trips, summer camps, and classes on cooking, gardening, and farming. We work to connect Missoulians to their food and the place it is grown. Taking a hands-on, farm-based approach, our education program encourages youth and adults to explore connections between food, agriculture, science, and their everyday lives. We offer place-based education programs at the PEAS Farm campus and community gardens, and offer school-side education in our school gardens.
	Community Gardens create and sustain community gardens at sites located in low-income neighborhoods throughout the city. Each of our community gardens provides the participants with a 15 by 15 foot plot, tools, water, compost, straw, common space, and the knowledge and guidance of a garden coordinator. Weekly programs for young gardeners include lessons about gardening, botany, food sources, and cooking.
	Neighborhood Farms grow food for those in need at our neighborhood farms: the North Avenue Youth Farm (in partnership with Youth Homes), Orchard Gardens, River Road, and the PEAS Farm, a collaboration with the University of Montana Environmental Studies Program. While each farm is unique, they all share in growing food for Missoulians in need, distributed by the Poverello Center, Missoula Food Bank, Youth Homes, and other agencies around town.
	Youth Harvest Project offers therapeutic support and employment for adolescents through the Youth Harvest Program. Adolescents referred by our partners the Youth Drug Court and Youth Homes, work at our sites and operate a Mobile Market. They harvest and deliver fresh produce to sell at very low cost to seniors and people with disabilities who live at subsidized housing facilities in town. Garden City Harvest has partnered with the Human Resource Council to provide at-risk youth with an employment opportunity. For Youth Harvest participants based at the PEAS Farm, we provide therapeutic support in addition to employment.

Programs