Congratulations to the 2018 Youth Garden Grant Winners! Twenty-five organizations have been selected from over 800 applications to receive award packages to help start new or expand existing youth garden programs.

The following organizations were selected as our top 5 winners:

• Keya Wakpala Community Garden by REDCO Community Food Sovereignty Initiative — Mission, SD
• Project GOOD at Fruit Ridge Community Collaborative by Yisrael Family Urban Farm — Sacramento, CA
• P53K at Spring Creek Gardening Program — Brooklyn, NY
• Alfond Youth Center Sustainable Gardens by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Waterville — Waterville, ME
• Augusta Head Start and El Dorado Head Start Lorax Garden by Child Start, Inc. — Wichita, KS

Our 2018 winners also include:

• Americana World Community Center Children’s Garden— Louisville, KY
• Arapaho School Garden by Fremont County School District #38 — Arapahoe, WY
• Beyond Boundaries Sensory Garden — Ward, AR
• Bozone Ozone Bus by Gallatin Valley Farm to School — Bozeman, MT
• Pima County Juvenile Court Center/Detention Hope Grows Garden — Tucson, AZ
• Evergreen Elementary School HOPE Garden — Shelton, WA
• Green Thumbs Up for Cultural Importance at Millennia Gardens Elementary — Orlando, FL
• Growing Together Garden at North Liberty Community Pantry — North Liberty, IA
• Grow2Serve Garden at Indian Run Elementary School — Dublin, OH
• Hope Garden at Stenton Family Manor by FOOD MOXIE — Philadelphia, PA
• Labs Unleashed Butterfly Garden & Outdoor Classroom at Holly Ridge Elementary School — Holly Springs, NC
• Loyalhanna Watershed Association Farm Environmental Science Program — Ligonier, PA
• Maire Butterfly Garden at Lewis E. Maire Elementary School — Grosse Pointe, MI
• Monarch Butterfly Ecological Engineering Project at Morton Freshman Center, District 201 — Cicero, IL
• Panther Community Garden at Portland High School — Portland, TN
• PS 154 Harriet Tubman School Garden with Harlem Grown — New York, NY
• Southern Boone County R-1 Elementary School Learning Garden — Ashland, MO
• Sproutin’ Up Youth Farm by Sproutin’ Up Corporation — Fort Collins, CO
• Tiger Garden at Raton Intermediate School — Raton, NM
• Wesley Colbert Zion Street Community Garden by Summer of Solutions Hartford — Avon, CT