Every year, Renee's Garden donates seeds to a wide variety of organizations and
educational programs worldwide that strive to improve social, economic and health
conditions, and promote sustainable organic
gardening. We also encourage retailers to donate unsold Renee's Garden seeds to
local non-profit organizations at the end of the season. We are
pleased to share their successful outcomes.
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Seeds of Hope Projects:
Guatemala and Honduras
Seeds of Hope
has been involved in several
projects this past
year. "The first photos are
of family
gardens in the community of Las Pavas, Honduras. The next are from
an urban rooftop garden project to instruct
participants how to create their own
"foodtopias" in an urban
environment. Used tires are used to
create planters, and a mix of
organic materials and compost are
used as a planting medium." -Paul Hansen,
outreach coordinator
Rotary First Harvest of Oregon
This project has created community gardens in Oregon and Northern California.
There are also 2 production gardens including a 1-acre garden in Klamath Falls,
which has generated thousands of pounds of produce for local food banks,
pantries and kitchens.
Edible Schoolyard New York City
"The seeds you donated enriched the programs we teach to over 1000 children every
month here at P.S. 216 in Brooklyn. We are dedicated to teaching
children about growing food sustainably, cooking, and nutritional eating. All of
the children at the school have many opportunities to come out and work in the
garden throughout the season. In addition to many other gardening activities,
they plant, harvest, and save seeds. It is these donations that allow us
to continue doing the work that we do. We transformed a cement parking lot into
a half-acre organic garden where students from kindergarten are taught how to
harvest over 60 types of fruits, grains and vegetables. "
-Bruni Torras, Program Coordinator
Edible Schoolyard NYC www.esynyc.org
Brooklyn, NY
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Plant a Row for the Hungry
Spokane, WA
"Community
members throughout Spokane County (including northern Idaho) have grown tons of
extra produce for the local food banks and meal centers. These photos show: 1. East Valley High School students, who grew 1,600+ pounds of fresh produce for their school lunch program
and Second Harvest 2. Beautiful Savior church community garden. 3. Payne Financial Group's garden, which has taken the place of a "retired" swimming pool from the
former hotel. 4. Timberlake Youth Project in Spirit Lake, Idaho"
-Keith Burgeson, Harvest Coordinator
2nd Harvest
Uganda Garden Program
An education project that teaches families devastated by the effects
of the AIDs epidemic to be more self-sufficient by growing a wide variety of
nutritious vegetables. "I am writing on behalf of CETRUD Uganda to thank you for the donation
of seeds to our program to help our rural families - these seeds make a huge
difference in what we can accomplish."
-Godfrey D. Kasozi, Director
Center for Environment, Technology
and Rural Development
Mahima
Orphanage, Nepal
"Monsoons
were very early this year in
Nepal, but we were able to
plant. Mahima Children's
home now has quite a few
children who love to garden.
The children planted a
garden this year of mostly
corn and green beans and
flowers. They look forward to the distribution
of seeds and the employees'
wives who have a little
garden of their own wait
patiently for seeds that are
left over. Thank you
again so much....what a
blessing for these people to
know that someone cares for
them on a continual basis. "
-Pam Smith, teacher
and volunteer
Some of the other fine
non-profit organizations that receive our seeds include:
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Little Red Hen,
Chico, CA
Non-profit therapeutic plant nursery serving children and
adults with developmental disabilities.
Village Garden in
Afghanistan
Church group provides seeds and trees for Afghan villagers
Asturias Academy,
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala The school serves mostly poor indigenous children in pre-school
through high school.
Flying Doctors of America
For health projects in Haiti and Bolivia
Boys and Girls Club,
Palm City, FL
Learning to plant, grow, pick eat and share at the Shadowood Farm
organic food garden.
Boulder
County Jail Garden,
Boulder, CO
Their one acre garden grows food for the kitchen.
Food What?!,
Santa Cruz, CA A youth empowerment program that partners with teens to grow, cook, eat, and
distribute healthy sustainably raised food.
Seattle Tilth, Seattle, WA
Educates people to grow food organically and support local food systems.
Luscher
Farm Garden,
Lake Oswego, OR
The community
garden gives area residents the opportunity to grown their own flowers and
vegetables.
Francis Land House,
Virginia Beach, VA Our harvest is donated to the Boys and Girls Seton Houses
Ali-Goldstein-Hoover Elementary School,
Oakland, CA School garden program
LifeLab,
Santa Cruz, CA
Helps schools develop gardens where children can create "living
labs" for the study of the natural world.
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