Growing Lettuce in 2020!
Carol Burton - Director of Gardening Education at Urban Harvest I love to grow lettuce because it is easy to grow in any type of garden: school, container or backyard.…
Mama Jo’s Scrumptious Sweet Potato Pies
Ingredients 3-4 medium sweet potatoes 1 can of evaporated milk (12 oz.) 1 stick of butter 2 tsp. lemon extract 6 large eggs 1 tsp. vanilla Instructions 1) Preheat oven…
Adopt-A-Garden Kicks Off At Area Gardens
Volunteers at Bonham ElementaryPrepping beds at BonhamDigging in at Harry HolmesVolunteers at Harry Holmes The Adopt-A-Garden Program connects gardens in underserved areas with community partners to support gardens, build relationships…
Great Tomatoes Every Year
by Dr. Bob RandallEvery June since its inception, I have appeared at the Urban Harvest Tomato Fest to answer questions about growing tomatoes. We also rejoice in and taste the…
Flower buckets at Local Flora
Growing Cut Flowers in your Vegetable Garden
by Blas Espinosa, Naturalist, St. Catherine's Montessori Flowers can have a big place at the table and in the garden. For me, growing flowers at first was a little intimidating,…
Urban Harvest in the community
Volunteers weed in the Pollinator Garden at Blackshear Elementary It was a weekend in the garden and promoting local food in Houston. On Thursday, a group from Starbucks weeded,…
Meet the Spring 2019 Intern!
Hi! My name is Samiyah Siddiqi and I’ll be interning with Urban Harvest this Spring 2019! I’ll be assisting and educating in community gardens, school garden programs, farmers markets and…
Gregory Lincoln’s Cultivated Classroom Archived in Smithsonian
Thanks to the efforts of The Garden Club of Houston, Urban Harvest's Cultivated Classroom at Gregory Lincoln Education Center has been accepted into the Archives of American Gardens, an archive maintained by…
Thanks, for Helping us Grow!
2018 saw a very productive year in Youth Education. From the birth of new school gardens, like Mading Elementary, to the actualization of long-term plans at schools like Gregory-Lincoln Education…
We Need More Pesto!
You know things are going well when your students are begging for more of your basil pesto. Hello there! My name is Allyson Schaefers and for this Fall semester I…