Interested in joining Parks & People’s Community Harvest Network? Call us at 20. A model of full-circle food production, preparation, distribution and consumption is enabled through the incubation of seedlings at Riverside as well as the use of Riverside’s newly renovated commercial kitchen, café and community hall as a site for healthy cooking classes, catering, and other food-based enterprise. Through connection with the Riverside Healthy Living Center around the corner from the Greening Center, Parks & People is developing DC’s first comprehensive Healthy Food Hub. In 2020, both the Green and the Greening Center will open on-site farm kitchens to provide food preparation and nutrition demonstrations. Over half of all food produced is donated to Sacred Heart and Martha’s Table, a homeless services agency whose clients are now at the center of the team tending the Green. This communal approach produces a much higher quantity and quality of food. Earths Harvest primary focus is providing great tasting food that takes into consideration what is in our food and where does it come from. At the Green, Parks & People has transformed our community garden into a mini-farm – where instead of assigned individual garden plots, the entire site is community-grown and harvested. Specialties: Chef inspired, Farm to Tummy, our soups, salads, sandwiches, smoothies and juices will have you raving to your friends and have you wanting to come back again really soon. 204 views, 9 likes, 3 loves, 5 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Healthy Harvest Farm & Kitchen: Theyre having a great morning Come stop by and say hello Wed love to see you. Parks & People’s own urban agriculture sites, the Marvin Gaye Greening Center and the Columbia Heights Green, provide year-round healthy food and programming opportunities for public land reclamation, green planning and design, arts and cultural events, job training, volunteer support, and advocacy for community greening efforts.Īt the Greening Center, Parks & People and our many community partners conduct year-round intensive permaculture farming of sustainable organic healthy food while providing a base of workforce development and learning for people of all ages about farming, environmental reclamation, and land stewardship. The Community Harvest Program serves to reconnect our most vulnerable communities back to the land, advancing our urban farms, parks, and other greenspaces as a vital mechanism for providing various types of culturally relevant programming such as nutrition and cooking classes, environmental stewardship job trainings, safe gathering spaces for advocacy and change, after-school youth programs while also providing fresh and organic produce to low income families.Ĭommunity Harvest is designed to be a working model for city-wide efforts in our Think Outside initiative, which seeks to help meet critical human and environmental needs by reconnecting DC’s two greatest but most forgotten assets: our vast network of public green spaces, the highest percentage of any major city in North America, and our deep base of people and communities who care.
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