This April and May, Urban Harvest kicked off its Adopt-a-Garden Program with six volunteer days across Houston. The Adopt-a-Garden Program connects gardens in underserved areas with community partners to support…
Urban Harvest offers a robust and unique calendar of gardening classes, perfect for gardeners of all levels. Last month, we completed our 22nd annual Growing Organic Vegetables series! This 25-hour class…
by Sarah Montero Before starting my internship with Urban Harvest I had no insight what so ever as to how to start a garden and the impacts of having one.…
By Bob Randall We vegetable gardeners face many months yet of blistering hot weather. With the passing of the solstice June 21, summer has officially just begun. And it won’t…
About this Project For my Girl Scout Gold Award Project, I decided to make bee boxes for Mason Bees. I had learned about how many bee populations were in decline…
It was a breezy morning on Saturday, April 21 and perfect weather for our Adopt-A-Garden kick-off. Over 70 volunteers, corporate partners, and community garden members joined forces to plant fruit…
Urban Harvest launches its Adopt-A-Garden program providing on-going education and materials to community gardens in underserved areas. Adopt-A-Garden will focus on gardens in the following Complete Communities: Acres Homes (Wesley…
The heart and soul of which are local farms and gardens. As a result of Harvey, farms at our farmers market experienced everything from loss in crops to minor property damage to…
Since the launch of our SNAP benefits program in mid-November, the Saturday Farmers Market at Eastside has seen an exciting growth in SNAP sales and customers. SNAP offers nutrition assistance to…
by Bob Randall, Ph.D. Originally published in the Houston Chronicle One big advantage of planting seeds is seeds rarely transmit diseases the parents had. Also, seeds take far less labor…