OHBA Presents Dr. Maya Klein on January 23
Reprinted from The New York Times, February 11, 2016 How the ‘Dirt Cure’ Can Make for Healthier Families BY ANAHAD O'CONNOR Dr. Maya Shetreat-Klein has a message for the parents…
Eastside Farmers Market Holiday Shopping Guide
Tis the season to shop local stocking stuffers for your friends and family. You can find all these at our Eastside Farmers Market every Saturday! Blue Heron Reaper & Ghost Pepper Salt,…
Piggy Bank Now Accepting Applications
Together, Piggy Bank and The Butcher’s Ball collected monetary contributions for relief and recovery efforts in support of heritage breed pig ranchers in Texas impacted by Hurricane Harvey in 2017.…
Rebuilding The Challenger 7 Garden
A fully-functioning donation garden prior to Harvey, Challenger 7 was flooded out and completely devastated. The Challenger 7 Community Garden was started in the early '90s in the Challenger 7 Park…
SNAP Launches
Our SNAP benefits program at the Saturday Farmers Market at Eastside successfully kicked off on November 18. SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits cover fruits, vegetables and herbs; cheese, eggs and…
Harvest Celebration
The beautiful weather on Saturday, November 11 provided an ideal environment for the 18th Annual Harvest Celebration. This community celebration of our 133 garden affiliates was held at the Westbury Community…
Shade for Sunnyside
by Eric Morris The Sunnyside Canopy Project aimed to provide much needed shade for the volunteer gardeners in Urban Harvest’s two community gardens in Sunnyside. Sunnyside is one of Houston’s…
Community Gardens Prepare for Fall Planting during HUB Distribution Day
On October 7, 2017, Urban Harvest sponsored the third HUB distribution day in which 1,112 assorted brassicas, 1,180 seed packets and 60 quarts of MicroLife Ocean Harvest were given to…
Healthy Soils * Healthy Plants * Healthy Animals * Healthy People * Healthy World
By Mike Serant So simple. Without healthy soil we don’t exist, soil is the foundation of civilization. All Earth life forms, from microbes to humans, are carbon energy beings sharing…
Avocado trees for Houston
Years ago, I would plant seeds from avocados that I purchased at grocery stores. Avocado trees would easily sprout from the seeds and begin to grow. If I was lucky…