The Home Gardening Project
Foundation
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The Home Gardening Project |
Mission Statement
The Home Gardening Project Foundation practices community
preventive medicine through the distribution of complete raised-bed vegetable
gardens for the aged, the disabled, single-parent mothers and large families.
The participants receive, at no cost to
them, a complete vegetable garden installed at their home. The gardens consist
of one, two or three 5'x8' soil-frames, made from 2"x8" boards,
filled with weed-free organic soil, as well as seeds, starts, fertilizer,
instructions, a trellis, tomato cages, a cookbook, monitoring, a newsletter,
gardening advice and a second-year start-up program of seeds and starts.
We built 150 new gardens a year in Portland's
disadvantaged neighborhoods, to the universal benefit of the participants
and the city in general.
Building upon this experience, the H.G.P.F. has expanded to become a
national foundation. Our goal is raising money for seed-grant funding to
20 new Projects in 20 new cities each year for the next 10 years. We turn
money into health and joy; we build vegetable gardens for our mothers and
sisters, our fathers and our children. If you would like to make a contribution
to this work, please go to the Funding page for
details.
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email us at: hgpf@teleport.com This site is maintained by Cynthia
Cheney |
