COMMUNITY GARDEN PROJECTS

Garden Projects as of Fall 2011

Tarrant Area Food Bank (TAFB) is partnering with Tarrant County Public Health (TCPH) to implement 14 Community Gardens in Tarrant County. TCPH will fund the gardens through their Live a More Colorful Life program. TAFB will be responsible for training sites, facilitating garden implementation, and providing continuing support for the gardens in an effort to make them as sustainable as possible. (Starred gardens are not part of this partnership.)

Existing Community Gardens:

*Como Community Garden                                                                                                   Fort Worth, TX

Neighborhood Needs Community Garden (Bhutanese Refugee Garden)                                Fort Worth, TX

Park Terrace Public Housing Refugee Garden                                                                       Fort Worth, TX

First Christian Church (Harvesting Hope Community Garden)                                                    Arlington, TX

Forest Hill Library Community Garden                                                                                    Forest Hill, TX

La Trinidad Methodist Church with Northside Interchurch Agency (El Jardin de Suenos)       Fort Worth, TX

Volunteers of America LIGHT Program (VOA LIGHT Community Garden)                                Fort Worth, TX

YWCA Downtown (The Willa Lister Memorial Garden)                                                             Fort Worth, TX

Mission Central at First United Methodist Hurst (The Village Garden)                                             Hurst, TX

Project Help at First United Methodist Bedford                                                                          Bedford, TX

*TCU Wesley Community Garden                                                                                          Fort Worth, TX

Alliance Community Garden                                                                                                        Alliance, TX

Developing Community Gardens:

Southside Community Garden                                                                                             Fort Worth, TX

Refugee Services Garden                                                                                                    Fort Worth, TX

Harmony Harvest Community Food Park                                                                             Fort Worth, TX

Project GROWTH with Feed By Grace Garden & Compost Program                                     Fort Worth, TX

*See "Get Involved" for volunteer opportunities!

Community Learning Garden

The Food Bank is working to facilitate the creation of a garden space devoted to education and food production. This will become a focused project this year, 2012-13. Come join us!

This garden will be used to:

• Facilitate community education to empower community members & organizations to create their own gardens. TAFB will host Community Garden Leadership Training several times each year, as well as other educational opportunities across a wide variety of subjects. Education will be open to the community as well as Food Bank agencies.
• Demonstrate different gardening techniques to help gardeners tailor their garden to their agricultural & aesthetic preferences, environmental possibilities, and economical constraints. Styles will include everything from permacultured passive water harvesting  to cinderblock & wooden raised beds to rock keyholes and microclimate-rich spirals.
• Initiate a new wave of volunteerism. Individuals or groups can come garden, compost, build, harvest educate and learn. Bring your family, friend, the guy off the street to help sow and weed!

Future Plans at the site include: a hoop house, educational pavilion, rainwater capture, raised garden beds for the physically challenged, passive water harvesting and more!

Please contact katey.rudd@tafb.org to learn more.