Program areas at City Blossoms
Community green spaces - City Blossoms provides interactive, communal, and children-focused gardens that transform unused or underused land into green spaces where youth and adults can interact with their natural environment. Participants learn about ecology, urban agriculture, nutritious food, water conservation, and composting techniques.
Early growers - City Blossoms uses a bilingual early childhood curriculum, first harvest/nuestra primera cosecha, to work with children ages two to five. It partners with educators to design age-appropriate gardens and programming to help participants make their first connections to nature and food.
Youth entrepreneurship cooperative - City Blossoms partners with high schools to manage a year-round, garden-based youth entrepreneurship program. At the core of the program is a youth-led business called mighty greens through which participants combine elements of environmental and food justice with microenterprise and job readiness skills development.
School garden partners - City Blossoms works with coordinated groups of elementary and middle schools to design and incorporate gardens into their programming over multiple years.
Training and resources - City Blossoms supports educators and community members by providing trainings with a lens of cultural connectivity and skills development. It also produces sharable resources such as its bilingual cookbook, garden gastronomy/gastronomia del jardin.