This year, Everybody Grows continued to invest in our core community projects. We deepened our relationships with partners and participants and improved our growing methods. We are deeply excited to build on these projects as well as expand in the coming year! Please enjoy these highlights and pictures. Scotland Recreation: Garden and (new!) Nature Trail […]
2018 has been another fruitful year for us at Everybody Grows! We have continued to focus on our most successful inspiration gardens, while also developing and refining how we perform community outreach and organizing. In this report we will look back on our progress in 2018 with each of our active projects. To stay abreast […]
Everybody Grows is pleased to host an open volunteer event this Sunday, July 1st at 5:00 PM to help us harvest our over 200 garlic plants and replant beds with summer vegetables. All volunteers will get to take fresh garlic home to enjoy. Event details Location: 1340 Rhode Island Avenue Northeast DC 20018 Timing: 5:00 […]
All of us at Everybody Grows are excited to be working with a new community, St. Gabriel’s Church in Petworth, to create a large edible garden together in their backyard. We will be holding two large volunteer build days to prepare the site and construct and fill the raised beds. The details for both days […]
My name is Tori Heller, and this past fall I had the pleasure of playing, working, and learning with kids at the Scotland Community Center in Potomac. I am one of the naturalist educators that works with Everybody Grows, and together with Andrew Shofer, a fellow naturalist, we have begun to explore wild nature with […]
Everybody Grows 2017 End of Year Report 2017 was a year of significant progress for Everybody Grows. We expanded our reach by helping a group of neighbors living on 31st Street NE to start and maintain their own personal vegetable gardens. We significantly increased the learning opportunities for the children in the Scotland community through […]
Update 4/22: This event has been postponed to Sunday, April 23rd at 3-5 PM due to the weather. All other details of the event remain the same. There aren’t many better ways to spend Earth Day than getting your hands in the soil and learning about gardening at a community farming project. Join Everybody Grows […]
Using Herbs for First Aid Cuts? Scrapes? Colds? Fevers? Upset stomach? Discover the ways that medicinal herbs can be your garden first-aid kit. What better place to learn these skills than at the Everybody Grows fire station farm surrounded by EMTs and firefighters? Participants will become familiar with several easy-to-grow herbs and how to use […]
Come out and get your hands dirty at four Everybody Grows planting events in May! Our fire station planting events will both begin at Engine 26 at 1340 Rhode Island Avenue Northeast DC. Stoddard Baptist Nursing Home is located at 1818 Newton Street Northwest DC. Volunteers will be helping with the hands-on work of planting […]
We collaborated with a group of young gardeners to start our first plants at our new inspiration garden at Scotland Recreation Center. We are really excited about our new inspiration garden there, and we are off to a great start building a partnership with the staff and children at the recreation center. I want to […]
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