Why Gardens?
Because gardens produce healthier food. Only 2% of American children eat enough fruits and vegetables, and 1 in 3 American children born after 2000 is at risk for Type II diabetes. A garden is an introduction to the real, healthy food students and families need access to.

Because gardens can help fix America's nature deficit. With more than 80% of Americans living in cities and suburbs, we need to work harder than ever to teach the values of natural processes.

Because gardens are a living laboratory for education. Not just healthy food—a lesson on what producing healthy food requires. Not just exposure to nature—a way for children to literally harvest the fruits of their labor.

A True Seed Investment 
For as little as $10, you can help a community reap all the benefits a garden has to offer. In just 39 days, we plan to raise $2500 per garden; to feed,  teach, and inspire people in each of these 100 communities. Here are a few things our garden plans to do with your donations:

The Potrero Hill Learning Garden Project (PHLG) is an inclusive project, shaped by local community members to serve the whole community in a community garden space located in the diverse neighborhood of Potrero Hill, San Francisco. The mission of the PHLG Project is to strengthen community relationships between people of diverse generations, backgrounds and experience – with urban farming as a catalyst for growing community resiliency. Through educational programming rooted in regenerative strategies related to conserving energy, growing fresh food and supporting diversity, the garden becomes a living laboratory to inspire a positive outlook, new skills and interdependence on one another. As an outdoor classroom, the PHLG Project provides real life, hands-on activities designed to explore and engage youth and community members in health and nutrition, science, mathematics, ecology, agriculture, gardening and art. Through collaboration, experimentation, and education, we can connect youth to real-life solutions that empower and inspire them to become more resilient.

Garden Website: booka_alon@liveoaksf.org

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Look Good, Do Good
With every contribution to our garden, donors will receive organic, ethical perks from PACT. Our socks, undies, and t-shirts are produced to high standards of sustainability, with the comfiest organic materials we can find. You'll be giving out of the goodness of your heart, and in returnyou'll get PACT goodies. It's a win-win situation.