Plant your own productive vegetable garden to nourish your body as well as your spirit! By adopting one of our garden plots, you can spend time outside in the sunshine, work with your hands, and grow your own fresh produce. Our Plot-It-Fresh the program provides local residents with gardening and farming education, as well as access to gardening space in Newark. Gardeners receive startup materials, such as seeds and soil, technical gardening assistance, and access to educational workshops.

Indulge in a day of gardening seminars to wash away the winter blues. This year’s FREE virtual conference will empower communities to enact positive social change in this decade and beyond. The presentations will encourage participants to contextualize future growth in terms of acts we begin today. The conference will feature workshops and presentations that will lay the groundwork for novice gardeners as they begin their journeys, in addition to sessions that promote the continued education of more advanced gardeners. All participants, regardless of skill level, are also invited to several discussions that explicitly connect small acts of gardening with the larger potential for social justice and change. At the end of the conference, participants will walk away with hard skills and theories that will allow them to plant seeds of change in their communities and beyond.

Although we have had to temporarily close our Outdoor Learning Center in response to COVID-19, we are able to continue some of our programs and have implemented some new ones in our mission to serve the Newark community.

We are proud to be part of this program which brings nutritious and healthy food to the tables of more than 2,000 Newark seniors and families.

Thanks to the generosity of local seed companies, we are able to offer free seeds to our Plot It Fresh farmers and Newark-based community and home gardeners.