Claudie's Urban Community Gardens
Claudie's Urban Community Gardens, a designated 501c3 nonprofit, seeks to empower people to have accessible food by creating sustainable organic gardens.
We provide sustainable, productive, organic community gardens in food apartheid and low-income communities.
We educate and empower community members to use tools and resources for organic food production and nutrition, in addition to providing gardening programming that provides trauma-informed care to those who need it most.
We educate and empower community members to use tools and resources for organic food production and nutrition, in addition to providing gardening programming that provides trauma-informed care to those who need it most.
Program Overview
Claudie's Urban Community Gardens provides six gardening programs.
- Food Insecurity Initiative Project
- Productive Parents Gardening Program
- Intergenerational Gardening Program
- Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Gardening
- Growing Produce for Seniors (GPS) Gardening Program
- Early Childhood Gardening Program
Food Insecurity Initiative
Build community gardens for the purpose of training low food-access community members on gardening basics and increase access to quality food.
Productive Parents Gardening Program
Program that teaches parents gardening basics and enables them to see the correlation between caring for plants and caring for their children
Intergenerational Gardening Program (Wesley House Associaiton)
Collaborative interactions between youth and senior adults in the garden.
Positive impact on both sides between the mutual relationship
SEL Gardening Program
Youth gardening program that helps urban youth increase their social emotional learning capabilities.
Growing Produce for Seniors (GPS) Gardening Program
Garden programming for seniors that help them become more independent
GPS Program Funders
Early Childhood Gardening Program
Gardening program for pre-school level children where they can learn various skills throughout the garden.