Iowa Gardening For Good
Growing local produce for charitable causes using volunteers of all ages in the process
Involving Volunteers
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Donating to Food Pantries
Involving Youth
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A major focus of our effort is to establish a project that includes volunteers from all levels of experience and to make it a positive experience for all involved.
In 2020, we are planning on growing vegetables using volunteers throughout the season and donating the produce to food pantries in need.
Involving kids to instill the value of giving to a good cause and teaching youth about how we grow the food we eat is important to us at Iowa Gardening for Good.
Resources
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What We Grow
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Groups
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Many people ask what type of resources we have at our location. While we are alway adding, we have some equipment and facilities to handle a variety of volunteer groups.
We grow a wide range of vegetables and tend to expand each year. In 2020 we grew over 150,000 lbs of vegetables that were donated to food pantries in Iowa.
In 2019 we had over 1,500 volunteers help make this project work. Although we didn't get pictures from all volunteers, we did get some.
2017 North Polk Middle School Service Project Day
On May 15, over 130 6th grade students came to help set get the season going.
This is the group doing a service project to help support acres of vegetables planted for the Food Bank of Iowa.
Volunteers carefully planting Kholrabi into seeding trays. These plants will be later transplanted in between the rows of plastic.
Plenty of trees to sit under and catch a breeze to cool down.
This is the group doing a service project to help support acres of vegetables planted for the Food Bank of Iowa.