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Keepers of the Garden CCTX Keepers of the Garden is an Urban Community Garden, a safe learning space where anyone can learn how to grow your own food!

Join us through hands in the dirt activities! Our goal is to to cultivate together a safe space for educating and advocating in a community learning garden. Visit and learn how and why growing a sustainable, affordable, diverse, and organically grown learning space promotes cohesive community, physical health and healthy local economy. In the Garden:

locally-grown produce
community
hands-on lear

ning
sustainability
native growth
urban growing

GARDEN RULES
1) We have fun – everything GROWs better that way!
2) We wear closed toe shoes – we garden without chemical pesticides, so this keeps the creepy crawlies off our feet.
3) We are kind to others – this is a community garden and we want everyone to feel safe and happy in their community.
4) We put away all our tools – this helps our tools last longer and our visitors stay safe.
5) We stay on designated paths – This helps keep our seedlings from being stepped on and our big plants from getting broken limbs.
6) We respect the wildlife – we have earthworms, birds, bees, butterflies, ladybugs and many other natural friends that live here and help our garden grow.
7) We sing, laugh, joke, giggle, smile, and all those other happy things – basically we turn that frown upside down and remember rule #1!

12/01/2024

HUGE THANKS to all of the help we received from our friends, volunteers, students, businesses and everyone else that joined us in our final workdays at The Learning Garden.🌱 A bittersweet moment for everyone that has been a part of this space for the past decade! 🥹

This is not the end of Keepers of the Garden but a new chapter! Stay tuned and continue to watch the story develop. 👍🏼 We are exited to have most of our supplies distributed to other sites including and other garden sites maintained by 🌞

Next up is working with the Parks and Rec department to ensure the 30+ food producing trees & native plants remain at Tom Graham Park for future generations to enjoy! 🌳

Feel free to reach out with any questions or how you can assist with future endeavors. Survival workshops and other programming will continue so keep an eye out in the New Year! 😁

PS. Shout-out to Aislynn
For establishing and literally planting the seeds of growth for all that helped this space thrive! 💚

11/23/2024

Help us say goodbye to The Learning Garden!
Join us this Saturday the 23rd or next Saturday the 30th, anytime between 10-2pm.

We will be removing some of the smaller, seasonal plants as well as dismantling the hoop house so we can take it to another site.
Any help is great.

Remember, this is not the end of Keepers of the Garden, just a transitional point of time! We will continue with our survival skills and educational workshops this winter just no longer in the garden.

Stay tuned for updates!

03/18/2024

Big thanks to for having some of their Youth Leaders join us for our workday this weekend!

We were able to get a few areas weeded, cleared and even learned how to plant potatoes! We look forward to having them return in the near future.

Youth Odyssey has been a a huge supporter and collaborator for the past decade!

Stay tuned for another workday next month.

03/15/2024

Join us tomorrow for a spring cleanup day in the garden! Later in the evening you can also find us at Carol Lane Park for the Spring Equinox Celebration from 3-6pm! We will be practicing traditional fire making skills and identifying wild edibles.

02/14/2024

Hello to all! The past week has been eventful and productive. We would like to provide and update on the status of Tom Graham Park...

As of current we are working with the Parks and Recreation department on a solution and renewal of a new lease agreement!!

There has been a large amount of confusion dealing with the status of the Garden and communication within the community on the situation. We would like to emphasis that parks and rec never intended to "take the park away from us" although they had some concerns with maintenance of the park that they expressed to us.

In conjunction with the ending of our 5 year lease agreement that ended last year plus some miscommunication of time frames we decided to have a formal meeting with them to discuss the details.

We collected Letters of support from multiple organizations and received over 30 persuasive letters from our students at CC-Montessori school to aid in the discussion.

As of last Friday the garden is safe and we are working towards a new chapter where we will work together with Parks and Rec to make the space even better for the community!!

Stay tuned for updates on upcoming workdays and opportunities to provide support!!

02/01/2024

Thank you The Bend Magazine for the person of interest feature!!

10/17/2023

Last week we had 2 awesome field trips from our friends at CC-Montessori School! 👍🏽

We love having our students explore the urban learning space they have helped develop over the past few years! 🌱

We cook, we discover we have fun!! From breakfast tacos to letting out beast mode in doge ball🤾🏾‍♀️🤾🏽

Now that fall is here get ready for more activity in the garden!

09/12/2023

We sure are looking forward to some fall temps! Untill then we continue to enjoy the last few weeks of summer.🌞

As the school year has settled in we resumed weekly Garden club at CC-Montessori. 🌱😎

Last week we began prepping our new sensory zone and getting ready to plant in the garden! 🌻

This week we have been harvesting Thai Blue Peas to make color changing lemonade!

The big garden is looking nice and green just needs some weeding. Field trips resume to Keepers in a few weeks. Our students are exited to return as are we!

Join us every Sunday evening in the garden to learn more or help out!

08/13/2023

Early Saturday morning we visited CC-Montessori School to help with a parent workday! 🌞⚒️

In our Outdoor Classroom there was this old "tiny house" that was originally going to be used for a mini plant nursery for students to use. Over the years it has degraded and needed removal.

Thanks to an awesome team of parent volunteers and our PTO president we were able to get it dissembled safety while saving any good lumber we could salvage for future projects.

Now we have more space for raised garden beds and plants!! Not to mention more space for our students (and chickens 🌱😎🐔)

Very productive Saturday! Stay tuned for updates coming soon as we share our new developments and plans for using the grant money we recently received from

If you are interested in having your child attend our school, please schedule a visit and come take a tour!

08/03/2023

Youth Odyssey in the garden?? You know what that means!! Summer is wrapping up and we are using it wisely!

Living Local summer camp is active this week. Participants with travel around Corpus Christi and check out all types of outdoor activity spaces from the beach to !

We learned about planning, planting and prep for future harvest as well as the environmental impact from creating green spaces.

Not to mention we practiced our teamwork skills and found a fun way to water the garden.. 😎🌿💧🔫

Thanks for the visit !

Public Events and school field trips to the garden will resume as we enter the Fall season! Stay tuned.

06/15/2023

The past few weeks in the garden... Thanks to the rain and awesome volunteers we have plenty of fresh fruits and veggies to share with our local community!

These are just a few snapshots of our neighbors visiting the garden to learn about sustainability and harvesting.

As the extreme temperatures set in we continue to watch our urban garden shift into summer mode and production slows down. We tend to take a break in the summer with events and workshops as the harsh weather takes a toll on us and the plants.

You will still find us out in the garden maintaining and watering. Stay tuned for more updates and opportunities to join us! 🌿😎🍅🌞🫑🌾

04/20/2023

Visit us this Saturday at Earth Day-Bay Day!
FREE event located at Heritage park from 10-4pm. You can find our booth set up in zone A.

Looking forward to this super fun family friendly event!

03/29/2023

Address

3914 Up River Road
Corpus Christi, TX
78408

Opening Hours

5pm - 7pm

Website

http://keepersofthegardencctx.com/

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Big update! Today is a bittersweet day for all of us! If you haven't heard the news unfortunately we are closing down The learning garden once and for all. This is something we came to a mutual agreement with the parks and rec department and decided after a whole decade plus that it is finally time to scale down. The space is not being taken from I want to be clear that we decided as a community it was time for us to close up shop. We have our students from corpus Christi Montessori here today working hard to help clean up and also compile all of the things we are keeping to take over to our school and expand our beautiful garden spaces we have developed over there. Of course this is a sad day for our students and the community but a great life lesson for them to learn when one chapter ends and a new one will begin! We will have the first of two work days this Saturday from 10:00 to 3:00 p.m. and the last official work day will be Saturday the 30th at the same time. We will be in and out for the rest of the week getting plants moved and materials dismantled and prepare to move off-site including the shed and hoop house we would love to have as much help as possible feel free to reach out or come visit us! Let me know if you have any specific questions. #keepers #learninggarden #outdooreducation #outdoorlearning #newbeginning

Intro Into Beekeeping with Justin! Although it's got outside, we are out in the garden, learning hands on about bees. 🐝 As we enter Fall, we will resume programming in the garden, so stay tuned for opportunities in the cooler weather! 🌱☀️ #beekeeping #bees #learninggarden #agroforestry #outdoorskills #urbangarden

Check out our students from CC-Montessori hard at work cleaning up the park and helping prep for spring! With recent changes to our relationship with the park, students joined together to write persuasive letter to share with our local Parks and Rec Department. You will hear snippets from just a few of students reading a section of their letter. These students are passionate and exited to assist in making our space even better with your support! We are working with Parks and Rec to formulate a positive solution and allow for us to improve the space for all to enjoy. Contribute to our GoFundMe campaign and help us make the park an enjoyable space for the neighborhood and surrounding community! First of our monthly workdays coming up Saturday March 16th, anytime between 9am-1pm! #outdooreducation #lifeskills #persuasiveletters #outdoorclassroom #learn #grow #southtexas #zone9b #gardening #agroforestry #survivalskills #learnandgrow #schoolgarden

CC-Montessori hard at work cleaning up the garden! @ccms_new_generation #outdoorclassroom #outdooreducation #teamwork #montessori #lifeskills #keepers #spring #gardening #schoolgarden #southtexas #zone9b

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Our Story

Our mission is to cultivate a safe space for educating and advocating in a garden that benefits our surrounding neighbors and the community at large. We are growing sustainable, affordable, diverse, and organically grown produce, developing a learning space that promotes cohesive community, physical health and a healthy local economy. At the Learning Garden, everyone can learn how to plant, grow and harvest fresh produce and integrate the value of local food into their daily lives, alongside experienced growers. The Learning Garden is located in Corpus Christi, TX, at 3808 Up River Road. LEARNING GARDEN RULES 1) We have fun – everything GROWs better that way! 2) We wear closed toe shoes – we garden without chemical pesticides, so this keeps the creepy crawlies off our feet. 3) We are kind to others – this is a community garden and we want everyone to feel safe and happy in their community. 4) We put away all our tools – this helps our tools last longer and our visitors stay safe. 5) We stay on designated paths – This helps keep our seedlings from being stepped on and our big plants from getting broken limbs. 6) We respect the wildlife – we have earthworms, birds, bees, butterflies, ladybugs and many other natural friends that live here and help our garden grow. 7) We sing, laugh, joke, giggle, smile, and all those other happy things – basically we turn that frown upside down and remember rule #1!