Make A Garden Grow!
The Green Corn Project (GCP) is a 501(c)(3) organization that educates and assists Central Texans in growing organic food gardens. Since 1998 GCP has built over 140 organic food gardens at homes, schools, and community centers in Central Texas. Our programs help people with limited access to healthy food, grow their own vegetables in ways that are affordable, promote self-reliance, strengthen communities, and protect natural resources.
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How your support helps the community
When you donate to Green Corn Project, you give the the gift of gardening, but you give more than low-cost, nutritious, and organic foods:
You teach a lifelong skill to combat hunger.
You make a house a home.
You create vegetable lovers.
You give hope.
You teach a lifelong skill to combat hunger.
Texas has the third highest rate of food insecurity in the nation. Almost 15 percent of Texas families went hungry during the latest survey period (2005–2007). This number is expected to rise in 2008 and 2009 due to the economic downturn.
You make a house a home.
Many Habitat for Humanity and low-income gardeners see their gardens as the final step in realizing their dreams of self-sufficiency. They have a house, but when they add a garden, that house becomes a home.
I still have clay on my palm from this morning's tending to the garden. I absolutely LOVE IT!!!
The turnip seeds have already sprouted, and I'm so excited to see the carrots…as well!
I will DEFINITELY tell my Habitat neighbors and others who might be interested.
Thank you so much for taking the time to come out and get us started on our path to becoming REAL farmers!
Habitat for Humanity homeowner and GCP gardener, Fall 2008
You create vegetable lovers.
Our school gardens instill in children a lifelong love of vegetables, a respect for the environment, and a sense of fun and wonderment, all in a 4-by-12-foot space outside their classroom door.
You give hope.
Many of our gardeners face serious diseases, illnesses, and disabilities. Gardening offers them a hope-filled counterpoint to their struggles. It feeds their souls and minds as much as it feeds their bodies.
