Sacramento Area Communty Gardening Coalition

www.saccommunitygardens.org

SACGC is a grassroots group made up of Sacramento and surrounding area Community Gardeners, Community Volunteers, School Garden participants, and Master Gardeners united by a common cause: to bring more Community and School Gardens to the Sacramento Area.

Sacramento's Grant High School G.E.O (Grant's Environmental Organization) Program

www.grant.k12.ca.us/PDF/ prg_garden_project.html

or

www.eatfromthegarden.org

G.E.O. is a youth led program that works on entrepreneurial garden and community beautification projects. G.E.O. trains youth in horticulture, business, and landscape design principles so they can have the skills and knowledge to obtain employment, access higher education, and actively improve their community.

City of Sacramento Solid Waste-Composting
Welcome to the Backyard Composting Program

www.pwsacramento.com/ solidwaste/composting.html

Every year the people of Sacramento dispose of more than twice the national average of yard waste. By reducing the amount of yard waste that you throw away, you can make a heap of difference.

American Community Gardening Association

www.communitygarden.org

The American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) was founded in 1979 to help gardening programs share their limited resources, and benefit from each other's experience and expertise.

National Gardening Association

www.nationalgardening.com

Visit this site for a variety of gardening resources.

Santa Cruz County Homeless Garden Project

www.homelessgardenproject.org

Its mission is to employ and train homeless people in Santa Cruz County within a community supported organic garden enterprise .

The Garden Project (San Francisco)

www.gardenproject.org

Since the Project began in 1992, more than 3,500 former offenders have gone through the program and 75% of Garden Project participants do not return to jail.

Building Opportunties for Self Sufficiency (BOSS) Urban Gardening Institute (Berkeley)

www.self-sufficiency.org/Garden/ summary.html

In its fifth year, the BOSS Urban Gardening Institute (BUGI) addresses poverty, nutrition, health, urban ecology, and sustainable agriculture from the individual to the policy level. BUGI is a partnership between BOSS (a twenty-nine year old nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness and poverty in our community) and Spiral Gardens (a nonprofit gardening resource center).

The Edible Schoolyard (Berkeley)

www.edibleschoolyard.org

The mission of the Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King Middle School is to create and sustain an organic garden and landscape which is wholly integrated into the school's curriculum and lunch program.

Life Lab (Santa Cruz)

www.lifelab.org

An organization that started in Santa Cruz, CA and now works with over 1000 schools, it encourages garden based learning that promotes a sustainable future. The organization helps schools develop gardens where children can create "living laboratories" for the study of the natural world.