NCO Gardens Project Mask Awareness Project
Gardens Project, Countywide
The Gardens Project is a program of North Coast Opportunities with the goal of organizing a sustainable movement of school and community gardens and empowering our community to be the leaders of it all. We seek to relieve hunger and inadequate nutrition throughout Mendocino and Lake Counties by:
- Creating access to community-based food production and local, nutritious food. We work with local government and private landowners to lease land around low-income neighborhoods for the creation of shared used food producing green spaces, like community gardens.
- Educating the community about sustainable food production and healthy eating through garden and nutrition workshops.
- Empowering the gardeners that volunteer to manage their community space through leadership training and mentoring.
The Project
The Gardens Project has been distributing masks, yard signs, and educational materials throughout existing network of community gardens in Mendocino County, which serve predominantly Latino/a people as well as other vulnerable populations including seniors and people living in poverty.
The Gardens Project has been distributing masks, yard signs, and educational materials throughout existing network of community gardens in Mendocino County, which serve predominantly Latino/a people as well as other vulnerable populations including seniors and people living in poverty.
