See It: The Community being helped

The San Antonio East Side neighborhood is plagued with issues of poverty, low-wages, environmental contamination and few positive activities for youth. The area lacks resources like libraries, recreational facilities, grocery stores or banks. The project will start a sustainable community garden where members can bring home the harvest and, eventually, seedlings to start their own home garden. It will model different techniques like water catchment, drip irrigation, composting, integrated pest management and raised beds. The garden will also function as a place to build community in this low-income neighborhood, where youth and residents can come together to learn, organize, and get empowered to engage in development issues in the neighborhood.The project is open to everyone is the community, but targets involvement from young people. Outreach will be done bilingually through fliers, the City Council district, neighborhoods associations, churches, schools, and after school programs.

Goals:
Provide healthful, organic fruits and vegetables to the East Side Community for no or low cost
Serve as an educational center for youth and community members to learn about urban gardening.
Provide seedlings for home gardens to increase food security
Create a sense of community ownership of the garden through work days and events

We are the key to creating a better life and without our roots that is impossible.