1. LOCALLY NOURISHED Doctors for Change Forum September 27, 2017

2. Mission: to encourage community, good nutrition and sustainability through the teaching and support of organic gardening.
Our vision is of a healthier city where everyone has access to locally grown, nutritious food harvested from sustainable community gardens and farms.
A non-profit organization founded in 1994.
Serving the greater Houston area.
Staff of 10, Garden Educators, and 2000 volunteers a year.
Board of Directors – 13.

3. IMPACT Increasing access to healthy, fresh food
Empowering individuals to grow food for themselves, their families and their community
Providing economic opportunity to our region’s family farms and local producers
Bringing life to core curricula and teaching children where their food comes from
Encouraging responsible, ecological land use
Engaging and revitalizing communities
Reflecting diversity and fostering interactions across social and generational barriers
Ecological land use also contributes to the region’s biodiversity, mitgiation of flooding and filtering of rainwater.

4. Urban Harvest Programs
Community Gardens School and Youth Education
Farmers Markets Adult Classes

5. Youth Education – Learning in the Outdoor Classroom
Serving 4,600 students in more than 20 schools through programs during and after school
90% of school partners serve economically disadvantaged youth.
Enhance learning in core subjects; TEKS related lessons.
Children grow food, try new fruits & vegetables.
Gardens include vegetables, fruit orchards, habitats and ponds.
Nutrition education to reinforce healthy choices.
Professional Development:
Edible Academy – most comprehensive in region;
Certified in Continuing Professional Education and Environmental Science;
Curriculum support in core subject and online resources.
FOOD BANK NUTRITION a great community partner – schools, adult classes and demo for snap!

6. Garden Oaks Montessori: HISD

7. Year Round Classes in Organic Gardening and Sustainability for Adults
Starting a School or Community Garden Quarterly Workshop
Fruit Tree Care (annual January sale!)
Organic Gardening basics and more
Series Certifications
Permaculture
Growing Organic Vegetable

8. Farmers Markets Providing a key educational and economic role in developing a sustainable food system and keeping food dollars in the community
Eastside Street – Saturdays, 8 a.m. to Noon (year round)
City Hall – Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.(seasonal)
Additional venues periodically
Provide venues for 90 small businesses, including 43 local farms from within 180 miles.
Vegetables, fruits and herbs in season
Grass-fed sustainable chicken, beef, pork, & lamb
Goat cheeses, goat-milk soaps
Eggs and honey
Prepared food made with local ingredients
Additional venues: Mid Main, Butchers Ball in Brenham, St Arnolds this Sunday! 11-4

9. Saturday Farmers Market
Houston Food Bank Empty Bowls
Also Featuring: Chef Demonstrations Nutrition Education Non-Profit Organizations Outreach

10. Increasing Access to Healthy Food
FVRx: Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Saturday Market through January
Wholesome Wave, Target, and Memorial Hermann
EBT/SNAP benefits at Saturday market kick off November 18, 2017
78% of Urban Harvest affiliated gardens serve food deserts or adjacent low-income, low access areas.

11. Community Gardens Program
Expansive network including 133 gardens over 100 mile radius
Five hub gardens

12. Donation Gardens
Over 60,000 pounds of food are donated annually to soup kitchens, homeless shelters and housing and food pantries.

13. Allotment Gardens

14. Sunnyside Community Gardens

15. VOLUNTEERING! Garden Workdays “Dig it Days” – school workdays
After School Garden Assistant
Earth Day Workday!
Classes Assistant
Farmers Market Greeter
Annual Fruit Tree Sale – January 13

16. Sandra Wicoff, Executive Director
Urban Harvest
2311 Canal Street, Suite 200
Houston, Texas 77003
urbanharvest.org