Change Lives Community Garden

Growing Food. Growing Knowledge. Growing Community.

The Change Lives Community Garden is a community-based program of Change Lives Outreach, INC. designed to bring youth, families, seniors, and community members together through gardening, education, healthy living, and service.

Our goal is to create a welcoming and accessible garden where members of our community can learn how to grow fresh food, develop healthy habits, build relationships, and work together to make a positive difference.

Our Mission

The mission of the Change Lives Community Garden is to increase access to fresh and nutritious foods while providing hands on educational experiences that promote healthy living, youth development, community involvement, and self-sufficiency.

Through gardening, we want to plant more than vegetables we want to plant knowledge, responsibility, leadership, hope, and community pride.

What the Program Offers

The Change Lives Community Garden will provide opportunities for:

• Raised-bed vegetable gardening

• Free fresh produce for community members in need

• Youth gardening and agriculture education

• Nutrition and healthy-eating education

• Youth leadership development

• Community-service opportunities

• Family gardening activities

• Senior participation

• Volunteer opportunities

• Seasonal planting and harvesting events

• Community Garden Days

• Hands-on learning for Change Lives NextGen participants

Youth in the Garden

Youth development will be an important part of our community garden.

Participants from Change Lives NextGen and other young people in the community will have opportunities to learn how to plant, maintain, and harvest a garden.

Youth will learn responsibility, teamwork, leadership, healthy eating, environmental awareness, and basic gardening and agriculture skills.

Older youth will also have opportunities to assist and mentor younger children during garden activities.

 From Our Garden to Our Community

Produce harvested from the Change Lives Community Garden will help provide fresh food to individuals and families in our community.

As produce becomes available, Change Lives Outreach, INC. plans to provide fresh vegetables and other garden items at no cost to qualifying community members, families, and seniors.

Our goal is simple:

Grow it together. Harvest it together. Share it with our community.

 Our First-Year Goal

During our first growing season, our goal is to:

Build at least 10 raised garden beds

Engage at least 25 youth and community volunteers

Provide gardening and healthy-eating education

Serve at least 50 local households with fresh produce

Create accessible gardening opportunities for seniors and individuals with mobility limitations

As additional funding, donations, and partnerships become available, we hope to expand the garden and serve even more people.

Become a Garden Partner

We are looking for businesses, churches, organizations, farmers, garden centers, community leaders, and individuals who want to help us grow.

Partners can support the garden by donating or sponsoring:

• Raised garden beds

• Lumber

• Topsoil

• Compost

• Seeds

• Vegetable plants

• Gardening tools

• Gloves

• Water hoses

• Watering equipment

• Fencing

• Storage equipment

• Benches

• Garden signs

• Educational materials

Sponsor a Raised Bed

Businesses, churches, organizations, families, and individuals will have the opportunity to sponsor a raised garden bed.

Garden-bed sponsors will help provide the materials needed to build, fill, plant, and maintain a garden bed that will produce fresh food for our community.

 Volunteer With Us

You don't have to be an experienced gardener to help!

We welcome youth, adults, families, seniors, community groups, churches, businesses, and organizations to volunteer.

Volunteer opportunities may include building raised beds, preparing soil, planting, watering, weeding, harvesting, packaging produce, distributing food, teaching workshops, and helping during community garden events.

 Help Us Grow

Every seed planted is an investment in our community.

By supporting the Change Lives Community Garden, you are helping us provide healthy food, educate young people, encourage healthier lifestyles, and bring our community together.

Change Lives Outreach, INC.

Change Lives Community Garden

Growing Food. Growing Knowledge. Growing Community.

Interested in volunteering, donating, sponsoring a garden bed, or partnering with us?

Contact Change Lives Outreach, INC.