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  • This service-learning experience is designed to teach skill-building in the care of regenerative orchards. Participants will be lead in earth works, sheet mulching, and planting fruit trees in the Alief Community Garden orchard. Solutions: A whole system design approach in educating care of and selection of easy to grow, high yield fruit trees and native plants for medicinal and wildlife value, enhancing the design in slow and small steps for greatest long-term change and capturing energy.

    Problems: Fruit tree orchard in a public space, neglect from covid and lack of volunteers. Fruit trees are overgrown, dead, or grown out from the original root stock.



    Presenter: Carol Burton
    Facilitator: Kyle Frese, Alief Community Garden Orchard Coordinator, Owner of Decentralized Farming, LLC

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In Support of Urban Harvest, Inc.
Urban Harvest cultivates thriving communities through gardening and access to healthy, local food. We are improving the lives, soil, and plates of​ all Houstonians through: 

ORGANIC GARDENING & NUTRITION EDUCATION
Urban Harvest Classes teach and promote the benefits of organic gardening, ecological land management, and healthy food choices. In schools, our Garden Educators teach children about nature and the origins of their food through hands-on, experiential learning. 

HEALTHY FOOD ACCESS
Through Double Up Houston, Urban Harvest is making fresh, healthy food accessible and affordable for all. Double Up Houston provides SNAP (formerly food stamps) beneficiaries with double the amount of fresh produce for every dollar spent at markets and farm stands across Houston.

COMMUNITY GARDENS
With a network of over 140 edible gardens throughout the Greater Houston area, it's easy to get involved in a garden near you. Urban Harvest provides affiliate gardens with volunteer engagement and workdays; seed and plant distributions; and, free education opportunities to help each garden become long-lasting and well-established for the community it serves.

FARMERS MARKETS
Get to know your farmer at Urban Harvest's Farmers Markets. Here, you will find the freshest farm and artisanal products, each grown, raised, and made within 180 miles of Houston. What’s more, your food dollars stay in the local economy.

Urban Harvest Farmers Market
2752 Buffalo Speedway
Every Saturday; 8am - noon

Mobile Market
Click here for locations.