The best way to learn about gardening is by witnessing it firsthand! Luckily there are many such educational gardens in the DC metro area. You can visit them, attend workshops, learn from their presenters and managers, or receive advice if you have a specific question about plants or your own garden. The sites and organizations below manage gardens that serve primarily as educational centers for the public, students or clients of an organization.
Arboretum Youth Garden
Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture
Arcadia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a more equitable and sustainable local food system in the Washington, DC area. Based on the historic grounds of Woodlawn Estate in Alexandria, VA, Arcadia manages four distinct program areas which include Arcadia Farm, Farm to School, Mobile Market, and Food Hub.
Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture
Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture - Specific Information on Education Garden
Beet Street Gardens
Beet Street Gardens purpose is to cultivate community gardens at social service organizations working with marginalized adults, teens and their families with a two fold purpose: to address economic and social divisions associated with limited access to nutritious food, safe outdoor space, and recreational and skill building opportunities; and to reduce the barriers of marginalized people to participate in community gardening, the local and organic food movements, and the green economy
Brainfood Youth Garden
The Youth Garden supports Brainfood’s mission of youth development through food education by providing youth an experiential learning space for seed-to-plate concepts.
Bread for the City – Rooftop Gardens
Two rooftop gardens for programs to serve Bread for the City clients
Bread for the City – Rooftop Gardens
Brickyard Educational Farm
A small education farm that offers educational garden programs for k-5 as well as the high school level including lessons about soil science, the water cycle, composting, planting, harvesting, and organic gardening. We are committed to connecting students and teaching them about local and sustainable food and agriculture.
CAFB Demonstration Garden
The Capital Area Food Bank’s Urban Demonstration Garden is a hands-on learning laboratory for food growing education.
Calleva
Calleva is a business that offers outdoor adventure and education programs including green and environmental classes on their sustainable farm, biodiesel lab, wood mill and more.
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Education Garden
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud Micro Farm
Dreaming Out Loud’s Organic Garden is set against the brilliant backdrop of Blind Whino’s colors. While we call it a garden, it operates like a community-managed, micro-farm. Together, we work with community members to grow healthy food.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Education Garden
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Everybody Grows
At Everybody Grows, our mission is to inspire and equip people to grow fresh, healthy food by bringing the home garden to everybody, wherever home may be.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program
FRESHFARM is a non-profit that promotes sustainable agriculture and improves food access and equity in the Mid-Atlantic Region. We do this by operating producer-only farmers markets that provide vital economic opportunities to local farmers and food producers and through innovative outreach programs. FoodPrints, FRESHFARM’s education project in partnership with the DC Public Schools, aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through experiential, in-school hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking, and preparing nutritious, local foods in season.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
Forested
Our mission: Advance forest agriculture, so forests and people thrive together. Our 50 year vision is for forest garden ecosystems to sustainably supply a large portion of all food and forest products people need and use for healthy living. We have a special focus on the eastern United States where the Forested research garden is located. We also offer education and services with worldwide application.
Girard Children’s Community Garden
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
GroW Community Garden
The GroW Garden offers George Washington Univeristy students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Growing Soul
Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
The Howard University Community Garden offers plots for HU students and incubator space for student food entrepreneurs. Additionally, it operates a community composting program.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
Arcadia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a more equitable and sustainable local food system in the Washington, DC area. Based on the historic grounds of Woodlawn Estate in Alexandria, VA, Arcadia manages four distinct program areas which include Arcadia Farm, Farm to School, Mobile Market, and Food Hub.
Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture
Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture - Specific Information on Education Garden
Beet Street Gardens
Beet Street Gardens purpose is to cultivate community gardens at social service organizations working with marginalized adults, teens and their families with a two fold purpose: to address economic and social divisions associated with limited access to nutritious food, safe outdoor space, and recreational and skill building opportunities; and to reduce the barriers of marginalized people to participate in community gardening, the local and organic food movements, and the green economy
Brainfood Youth Garden
The Youth Garden supports Brainfood’s mission of youth development through food education by providing youth an experiential learning space for seed-to-plate concepts.
Bread for the City – Rooftop Gardens
Two rooftop gardens for programs to serve Bread for the City clients
Bread for the City – Rooftop Gardens
Brickyard Educational Farm
A small education farm that offers educational garden programs for k-5 as well as the high school level including lessons about soil science, the water cycle, composting, planting, harvesting, and organic gardening. We are committed to connecting students and teaching them about local and sustainable food and agriculture.
CAFB Demonstration Garden
The Capital Area Food Bank’s Urban Demonstration Garden is a hands-on learning laboratory for food growing education.
Calleva
Calleva is a business that offers outdoor adventure and education programs including green and environmental classes on their sustainable farm, biodiesel lab, wood mill and more.
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Education Garden
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud Micro Farm
Dreaming Out Loud’s Organic Garden is set against the brilliant backdrop of Blind Whino’s colors. While we call it a garden, it operates like a community-managed, micro-farm. Together, we work with community members to grow healthy food.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Education Garden
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Everybody Grows
At Everybody Grows, our mission is to inspire and equip people to grow fresh, healthy food by bringing the home garden to everybody, wherever home may be.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program
FRESHFARM is a non-profit that promotes sustainable agriculture and improves food access and equity in the Mid-Atlantic Region. We do this by operating producer-only farmers markets that provide vital economic opportunities to local farmers and food producers and through innovative outreach programs. FoodPrints, FRESHFARM’s education project in partnership with the DC Public Schools, aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through experiential, in-school hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking, and preparing nutritious, local foods in season.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
Forested
Our mission: Advance forest agriculture, so forests and people thrive together. Our 50 year vision is for forest garden ecosystems to sustainably supply a large portion of all food and forest products people need and use for healthy living. We have a special focus on the eastern United States where the Forested research garden is located. We also offer education and services with worldwide application.
Girard Children’s Community Garden
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
GroW Community Garden
The GroW Garden offers George Washington Univeristy students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Growing Soul
Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
The Howard University Community Garden offers plots for HU students and incubator space for student food entrepreneurs. Additionally, it operates a community composting program.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
Beet Street Gardens purpose is to cultivate community gardens at social service organizations working with marginalized adults, teens and their families with a two fold purpose: to address economic and social divisions associated with limited access to nutritious food, safe outdoor space, and recreational and skill building opportunities; and to reduce the barriers of marginalized people to participate in community gardening, the local and organic food movements, and the green economy
The Youth Garden supports Brainfood’s mission of youth development through food education by providing youth an experiential learning space for seed-to-plate concepts.
Bread for the City – Rooftop Gardens
Two rooftop gardens for programs to serve Bread for the City clients
Bread for the City – Rooftop Gardens
Brickyard Educational Farm
A small education farm that offers educational garden programs for k-5 as well as the high school level including lessons about soil science, the water cycle, composting, planting, harvesting, and organic gardening. We are committed to connecting students and teaching them about local and sustainable food and agriculture.
CAFB Demonstration Garden
The Capital Area Food Bank’s Urban Demonstration Garden is a hands-on learning laboratory for food growing education.
Calleva
Calleva is a business that offers outdoor adventure and education programs including green and environmental classes on their sustainable farm, biodiesel lab, wood mill and more.
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Education Garden
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud Micro Farm
Dreaming Out Loud’s Organic Garden is set against the brilliant backdrop of Blind Whino’s colors. While we call it a garden, it operates like a community-managed, micro-farm. Together, we work with community members to grow healthy food.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Education Garden
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Everybody Grows
At Everybody Grows, our mission is to inspire and equip people to grow fresh, healthy food by bringing the home garden to everybody, wherever home may be.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program
FRESHFARM is a non-profit that promotes sustainable agriculture and improves food access and equity in the Mid-Atlantic Region. We do this by operating producer-only farmers markets that provide vital economic opportunities to local farmers and food producers and through innovative outreach programs. FoodPrints, FRESHFARM’s education project in partnership with the DC Public Schools, aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through experiential, in-school hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking, and preparing nutritious, local foods in season.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
Forested
Our mission: Advance forest agriculture, so forests and people thrive together. Our 50 year vision is for forest garden ecosystems to sustainably supply a large portion of all food and forest products people need and use for healthy living. We have a special focus on the eastern United States where the Forested research garden is located. We also offer education and services with worldwide application.
Girard Children’s Community Garden
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
GroW Community Garden
The GroW Garden offers George Washington Univeristy students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Growing Soul
Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
The Howard University Community Garden offers plots for HU students and incubator space for student food entrepreneurs. Additionally, it operates a community composting program.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
Two rooftop gardens for programs to serve Bread for the City clients
Bread for the City – Rooftop Gardens
A small education farm that offers educational garden programs for k-5 as well as the high school level including lessons about soil science, the water cycle, composting, planting, harvesting, and organic gardening. We are committed to connecting students and teaching them about local and sustainable food and agriculture.
CAFB Demonstration Garden
The Capital Area Food Bank’s Urban Demonstration Garden is a hands-on learning laboratory for food growing education.
Calleva
Calleva is a business that offers outdoor adventure and education programs including green and environmental classes on their sustainable farm, biodiesel lab, wood mill and more.
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Education Garden
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud Micro Farm
Dreaming Out Loud’s Organic Garden is set against the brilliant backdrop of Blind Whino’s colors. While we call it a garden, it operates like a community-managed, micro-farm. Together, we work with community members to grow healthy food.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Education Garden
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Everybody Grows
At Everybody Grows, our mission is to inspire and equip people to grow fresh, healthy food by bringing the home garden to everybody, wherever home may be.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program
FRESHFARM is a non-profit that promotes sustainable agriculture and improves food access and equity in the Mid-Atlantic Region. We do this by operating producer-only farmers markets that provide vital economic opportunities to local farmers and food producers and through innovative outreach programs. FoodPrints, FRESHFARM’s education project in partnership with the DC Public Schools, aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through experiential, in-school hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking, and preparing nutritious, local foods in season.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
Forested
Our mission: Advance forest agriculture, so forests and people thrive together. Our 50 year vision is for forest garden ecosystems to sustainably supply a large portion of all food and forest products people need and use for healthy living. We have a special focus on the eastern United States where the Forested research garden is located. We also offer education and services with worldwide application.
Girard Children’s Community Garden
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
GroW Community Garden
The GroW Garden offers George Washington Univeristy students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Growing Soul
Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
The Howard University Community Garden offers plots for HU students and incubator space for student food entrepreneurs. Additionally, it operates a community composting program.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
The Capital Area Food Bank’s Urban Demonstration Garden is a hands-on learning laboratory for food growing education.
Calleva is a business that offers outdoor adventure and education programs including green and environmental classes on their sustainable farm, biodiesel lab, wood mill and more.
Common Good City Farm
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
Cultivate the City
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Education Garden
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud Micro Farm
Dreaming Out Loud’s Organic Garden is set against the brilliant backdrop of Blind Whino’s colors. While we call it a garden, it operates like a community-managed, micro-farm. Together, we work with community members to grow healthy food.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Education Garden
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Everybody Grows
At Everybody Grows, our mission is to inspire and equip people to grow fresh, healthy food by bringing the home garden to everybody, wherever home may be.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program
FRESHFARM is a non-profit that promotes sustainable agriculture and improves food access and equity in the Mid-Atlantic Region. We do this by operating producer-only farmers markets that provide vital economic opportunities to local farmers and food producers and through innovative outreach programs. FoodPrints, FRESHFARM’s education project in partnership with the DC Public Schools, aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through experiential, in-school hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking, and preparing nutritious, local foods in season.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
Forested
Our mission: Advance forest agriculture, so forests and people thrive together. Our 50 year vision is for forest garden ecosystems to sustainably supply a large portion of all food and forest products people need and use for healthy living. We have a special focus on the eastern United States where the Forested research garden is located. We also offer education and services with worldwide application.
Girard Children’s Community Garden
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
GroW Community Garden
The GroW Garden offers George Washington Univeristy students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Growing Soul
Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
The Howard University Community Garden offers plots for HU students and incubator space for student food entrepreneurs. Additionally, it operates a community composting program.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
Common Good City Farm’s programs provide hands-on training in food production, healthy eating and environmental sustainability. The Farm itself serves as a demonstration site to individuals, organizations and government agencies in the DC Metro area. The site and our programs integrate people of all ages, classes and races to create vibrant and safe communities.
Cultivate the City is urban farmers working to feed families & communities with pesticide-free, locally-grown food by growing vertically. It was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.
DC Central Kitchen
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Education Garden
DPR Urban Garden Division
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud Micro Farm
Dreaming Out Loud’s Organic Garden is set against the brilliant backdrop of Blind Whino’s colors. While we call it a garden, it operates like a community-managed, micro-farm. Together, we work with community members to grow healthy food.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Education Garden
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Everybody Grows
At Everybody Grows, our mission is to inspire and equip people to grow fresh, healthy food by bringing the home garden to everybody, wherever home may be.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program
FRESHFARM is a non-profit that promotes sustainable agriculture and improves food access and equity in the Mid-Atlantic Region. We do this by operating producer-only farmers markets that provide vital economic opportunities to local farmers and food producers and through innovative outreach programs. FoodPrints, FRESHFARM’s education project in partnership with the DC Public Schools, aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through experiential, in-school hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking, and preparing nutritious, local foods in season.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
Forested
Our mission: Advance forest agriculture, so forests and people thrive together. Our 50 year vision is for forest garden ecosystems to sustainably supply a large portion of all food and forest products people need and use for healthy living. We have a special focus on the eastern United States where the Forested research garden is located. We also offer education and services with worldwide application.
Girard Children’s Community Garden
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
GroW Community Garden
The GroW Garden offers George Washington Univeristy students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Growing Soul
Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
The Howard University Community Garden offers plots for HU students and incubator space for student food entrepreneurs. Additionally, it operates a community composting program.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
DC Central Kitchen is America’s leader in reducing hunger with recycled food, training unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, and rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise.
DC Central Kitchen - Specific Information on Education Garden
DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.
Dreaming Out Loud Micro Farm
Dreaming Out Loud’s Organic Garden is set against the brilliant backdrop of Blind Whino’s colors. While we call it a garden, it operates like a community-managed, micro-farm. Together, we work with community members to grow healthy food.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Education Garden
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Everybody Grows
At Everybody Grows, our mission is to inspire and equip people to grow fresh, healthy food by bringing the home garden to everybody, wherever home may be.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program
FRESHFARM is a non-profit that promotes sustainable agriculture and improves food access and equity in the Mid-Atlantic Region. We do this by operating producer-only farmers markets that provide vital economic opportunities to local farmers and food producers and through innovative outreach programs. FoodPrints, FRESHFARM’s education project in partnership with the DC Public Schools, aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through experiential, in-school hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking, and preparing nutritious, local foods in season.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
Forested
Our mission: Advance forest agriculture, so forests and people thrive together. Our 50 year vision is for forest garden ecosystems to sustainably supply a large portion of all food and forest products people need and use for healthy living. We have a special focus on the eastern United States where the Forested research garden is located. We also offer education and services with worldwide application.
Girard Children’s Community Garden
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
GroW Community Garden
The GroW Garden offers George Washington Univeristy students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Growing Soul
Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
The Howard University Community Garden offers plots for HU students and incubator space for student food entrepreneurs. Additionally, it operates a community composting program.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
Dreaming Out Loud’s Organic Garden is set against the brilliant backdrop of Blind Whino’s colors. While we call it a garden, it operates like a community-managed, micro-farm. Together, we work with community members to grow healthy food.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. is a nonprofit social enterprise whose mission is to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities through creating a healthy, equitable food system. We are rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.
Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. - Specific Information on Education Garden
ECO City Farms
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
EcoHermanas
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Everybody Grows
At Everybody Grows, our mission is to inspire and equip people to grow fresh, healthy food by bringing the home garden to everybody, wherever home may be.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program
FRESHFARM is a non-profit that promotes sustainable agriculture and improves food access and equity in the Mid-Atlantic Region. We do this by operating producer-only farmers markets that provide vital economic opportunities to local farmers and food producers and through innovative outreach programs. FoodPrints, FRESHFARM’s education project in partnership with the DC Public Schools, aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through experiential, in-school hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking, and preparing nutritious, local foods in season.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
Forested
Our mission: Advance forest agriculture, so forests and people thrive together. Our 50 year vision is for forest garden ecosystems to sustainably supply a large portion of all food and forest products people need and use for healthy living. We have a special focus on the eastern United States where the Forested research garden is located. We also offer education and services with worldwide application.
Girard Children’s Community Garden
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
GroW Community Garden
The GroW Garden offers George Washington Univeristy students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Growing Soul
Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
The Howard University Community Garden offers plots for HU students and incubator space for student food entrepreneurs. Additionally, it operates a community composting program.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
ECO City Farms is an educational, non-profit organization located in Prince George’s County, Maryland designed to serve as a prototype for sustainable local urban farming. Currently, they operate two farms in Maryland, offer training classes and have a CSA with Certified Naturally Grown produce.
EcoHermanas is a community of women that weaves and reconnects communities to Mother Earth. Together we create a bold sisterhood culture of awareness, energy, and flow around place-based environmental issues, cultivating community and contributing to the greater co-fulfillment of our potential as a whole. We value a deep respect for the Rights of Mother Earth and engage in projects that promote:
Everybody Grows
At Everybody Grows, our mission is to inspire and equip people to grow fresh, healthy food by bringing the home garden to everybody, wherever home may be.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program
FRESHFARM is a non-profit that promotes sustainable agriculture and improves food access and equity in the Mid-Atlantic Region. We do this by operating producer-only farmers markets that provide vital economic opportunities to local farmers and food producers and through innovative outreach programs. FoodPrints, FRESHFARM’s education project in partnership with the DC Public Schools, aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through experiential, in-school hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking, and preparing nutritious, local foods in season.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
Forested
Our mission: Advance forest agriculture, so forests and people thrive together. Our 50 year vision is for forest garden ecosystems to sustainably supply a large portion of all food and forest products people need and use for healthy living. We have a special focus on the eastern United States where the Forested research garden is located. We also offer education and services with worldwide application.
Girard Children’s Community Garden
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
GroW Community Garden
The GroW Garden offers George Washington Univeristy students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Growing Soul
Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
The Howard University Community Garden offers plots for HU students and incubator space for student food entrepreneurs. Additionally, it operates a community composting program.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
At Everybody Grows, our mission is to inspire and equip people to grow fresh, healthy food by bringing the home garden to everybody, wherever home may be.
FRESHFARM is a non-profit that promotes sustainable agriculture and improves food access and equity in the Mid-Atlantic Region. We do this by operating producer-only farmers markets that provide vital economic opportunities to local farmers and food producers and through innovative outreach programs. FoodPrints, FRESHFARM’s education project in partnership with the DC Public Schools, aims to make positive changes in what children and their families eat through experiential, in-school hands-on experiences with growing, harvesting, cooking, and preparing nutritious, local foods in season.
FARMFRESH FoodPrints Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
Forested
Our mission: Advance forest agriculture, so forests and people thrive together. Our 50 year vision is for forest garden ecosystems to sustainably supply a large portion of all food and forest products people need and use for healthy living. We have a special focus on the eastern United States where the Forested research garden is located. We also offer education and services with worldwide application.
Girard Children’s Community Garden
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
GroW Community Garden
The GroW Garden offers George Washington Univeristy students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Growing Soul
Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
The Howard University Community Garden offers plots for HU students and incubator space for student food entrepreneurs. Additionally, it operates a community composting program.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
Our mission: Advance forest agriculture, so forests and people thrive together. Our 50 year vision is for forest garden ecosystems to sustainably supply a large portion of all food and forest products people need and use for healthy living. We have a special focus on the eastern United States where the Forested research garden is located. We also offer education and services with worldwide application.
Green Scheme
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
GroW Community Garden
The GroW Garden offers George Washington Univeristy students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Growing Soul
Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
The Howard University Community Garden offers plots for HU students and incubator space for student food entrepreneurs. Additionally, it operates a community composting program.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
The Green Scheme is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization promoting environmental sustainability, health awareness, and social justice. We are improving the trajectory of health, educational and economic outcomes in at-risk communities through training and awareness of environmental issues.
The GroW Garden offers George Washington Univeristy students and community members a place to learn about native, organic food systems by providing service opportunities in sustainable gardening, food distribution, and community outreach.
Growing Soul
Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
The Howard University Community Garden offers plots for HU students and incubator space for student food entrepreneurs. Additionally, it operates a community composting program.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
Organization that focuses on food scrap collection services, composting, growing food, youth garden education, selling value added food products and selling fnished compost.
The Howard University Community Garden offers plots for HU students and incubator space for student food entrepreneurs. Additionally, it operates a community composting program.
Howard University Community Garden (Halo Green)
K Street Farm (DC Greens)
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Kid Power
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
The K Street Farm is a ¾ acre farm adjacent to the Walker Jones Education Campus. The Farm is home to 5,000 square feet of growing space, two honey bee hives, four egg-laying chickens, a variety of fruit trees, and many perennial herbs and flowers. DC Greens runs a 37-week Farmer Trainee program that employs two trainees interested in expanding their knowledge of growing food in an immersive setting. Under the guidance of the Farm Director, the Trainees grow, harvest, and package all produce for the School Garden Markets program. The K Street Farm is also a professional development training site for our network of school garden coordinators from all eight wards of the city.
Currently, Kid Power’s after-school and summer programs serve 425 elementary and middle school students at Title 1 DC Public Schools. Kid Power serves an additional 1,200 students at 5 DCPS schools with monthly in-school VeggieTime science lessons. Our programs include: The Academic Power Hour, The VeggieTime Project, The Citizenship Project, and The Summer Leadership Academy.
Laurel Academy Farm
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marion Street Intergenerational Garden
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
Laurel Academy Farm is a Urban Farm and Sustainability Demonstration project in Historic Takoma, launching Un-school & After-school programs in 2015
Marvin Gaye Greening Center
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
A DPR program space home to a DC Urban Greens urban farm and Washington Parks and People education garden and program space. Also the home base for the Washington Parks and People DC Green Corps Training Program.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) is an organization of volunteers who work with the staff of Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) to encourage and promote environmentally sound gardening practices.
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia - Specific Information on Education Garden
Muirkirk Research Farm (UDC)
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
Muirkirk Research Farm is formally named the Agricultural
Experimentation Station of the District of Columbia and was
established by the USDA to research and test techniques in urban
agricultural that are consistent with sustainable practices.
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative’s Kitchen Garden Education Program is a year-long, hands-on, program for new and aspiring urban gardeners at Fort Totten, in NE, Washington DC. Income qualified applicants can participate at no cost. Trainees receive their own small garden plot, supplies, materials, instruction, and support. Committed students gain the knowledge and confidence to start growing on their own. They also reap many sustainability, health, and wellness benefits along with their own harvest of super-fresh, hyper-local, seasonal organic produce.
Neighborhood Farm Initiative - Specific Information on Education Garden
OSSE School Garden Program
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
People’s Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
The DC Office of State Superintendent of Education’s School Gardens Program team assists schools in building and maintaining school gardens and provides training and technical assistance to teachers in utilizing school gardens as a teaching tool The SGP also oversees the administration of the DC School Garden Grant and assists in the planning and implementation of District-wide events such as Growing Healthy Schools Week and Strawberries and Salad Greens Day.
OSSE School Garden Program - Specific Information on Education Garden
The USDA Headquarters People’s Garden demonstrates several simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly practices that both beginner and expert gardeners can use to make our communities healthier places to live, work and play.
Project EDEN
THEARC Farm
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
THEARC FARM is an urban farm operating as a community project of Building Bridges Across the River (BBAR) and developed to involve our community in nature, nutrition, and healthy eating. During the summer and fall months, THEARC’s farm provides affordable, organic fruits and vegetables the community through our CSA program, as well as educational programming, field trips, volunteer opportunities, tours and community events.
UDC East Capital Farm
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
University of the District of Columbia (UDC Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education (CAUSES)
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
Temporary UDC urban farm on DOH land to create a reserach farm and community garden.
The Center for Urban Agriculture and Gardening Education of the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences of the University of the District of Columbia seeks to expand academic and public knowledge of sustainable farming techniques that improve food and water security, health and wellness by providing research and education on urban and peri-urban agroecology and gardening techniques to residents and organizations in Washington, DC, and beyond.
Urban Farm Plans
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens DC
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
Serving the DC metro area, Urban Farm Plans offers turnkey design, building, and installation services for urban farmers and edible gardeners alike. Tailored workshops are also available through Urban Farm Plans, along with wholesale kit systems.
Victory Gardens is a Urban Farm in Southeast DC. We devote our energy to helping residents of our inner cities by growing organic food, building relationships and providing education. We will provide community education about nutrition & sustainable urban farming.
Wangari Gardens
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.
The Ward 8 Farmer’s Market has made local naturally-grown food and health education accessible to residents since 1998. Since March 2016, we have also run and school garden program at Martin Luther King Elementary School in Congress Heights.
Ward 8 Farmer’s Market and Congrss Heights/ MLK Community Garden
Washington Parks and People
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.
Washington Parks and People - Specific Information on Education Garden
Washington Youth Garden is a nonprofit organization that educates youth about food, health and envirnomental science through self-exploration programs such a SPROUT garden science field trips and Green Ambassador summer high school internships.
Washington Youth Garden - Specific Information on Education Garden
Wisdom Huerto at Casa Iris
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
An intergenerational community and education garden managed by Latino and African American Elders at Casa Iris with the help of Ecohermanas.
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