Keepers of the Garden is an Urban Community Garden, a safe learning space where anyone can learn how to grow your own food!
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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!
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.
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.
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!!
Thank you The Bend Magazine for the person of interest feature!!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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! 🌿😎🍅🌞🫑🌾
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!
A few tickets still available! Scan the QR code or click the link in below to grab yours.
We will be staying warm by the fire while we enjoy our homemade wood fired garden pizzas!
Message me for a special discount just for reading this far! 🔥🌿👍🏽
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Join us as we learn how to harvest fresh veggies from the garden, then create your own wood fired pizza!
We will discover a variety of seasonal veggies, herbs and wild edibles. After washing and prepping the edibles, we will provide a demo on how to roll out your personal pizza, use toppings of your choice and then watch us fire it up in our portable wood fired pizza oven!
$12 to harvest and make 1 pizza.
All ages welcome. Come and go as you like! 4-7pm
Ticket link: https://keepers-of-the-garden.website.spoton.com/shop/catalogue/wild-pizza-in-the-garden_19953/
Last weekend we had a busy day, learning how to take soil samples for heavy metals testing!
Huge thanks to and Department of Plant and Soil science for making this happen!
Over the next month the samples will make their way to the labs at the department of plant and soil science at Texas Tech. Samples will eventually be analyzed for heavy metals.
The information provided will be shared on our website for public viewing. We are interested in collecting as much data as possible so we can learn and improve the health of our soil!
Thanks to the initiatives put forth by For the Greater Good, we were just one of a many local city parks and community food forest to have samples analyzed.
Stay tuned for updates!
Thanks again to the groups above for this insightful opportunity! Looking forward to future organics testing to learn even more about the life within our soils.
Learn how to forage wild edibles and use them to cook your very own WOOD FIRED pizza!
Together we will harvest a variety of local wild edibles, wash, prep and then prepare a personal pizza with our portable wood fire pizza oven!
Join us for this family friendly event in the garden!
$10 to forage and create your own pizza. 🍕🌿
Visit link in bio or click link here ➡️ https://keepersofthegardencctx.com/shop/catalogue/wild-pizza-in-the-garden_19953/
As we enter 2023 and continue through the Winter this is a great time to prepare and replant for Spring! Although we were set back a bit with the freezing Temps, we look forward to spring to bring us regrowth and new starts!
Freezing Temps may be frustrating but allows for us to learn and adapt to our surrounds so we can become more resilient as we move forward.
If you would like to support us feel free to "Adopt a Plant" and donate to our spring growth! We also have volunteer hours every Sunday 4-6pm.
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Join us next Saturday for Urban Survival Skills!
We will explore multiple ways of making fire and identifying wild edibles in the garden. You will get a chance to try these hands on techniques and give yourself challenge!
Family friendly event! Scan the QR code or check the link in bio for more information and to get a ticket!
**ATTENTION**
Save your carved pumpkins!! If you have any old pumpkins laying around, try to save them for our Pumpkin Smash in the Garden this Saturday!!
Free family friendly event where you get to smash your old pumpkin up to bits and then learn how to compost the scraps!
We will have a small selection of snacks beverages and plants for sale as well!
Come have some fun in the garden and enjoy the awesome fall weather!
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Last week we were exited to resume our monthly Learning Garden field trips with !
Teachers and students discovered lots of neat foods to harvest, eat and take home including roselle hibiscus, peppers of all sorts, asian long beans and pomegranates! Our new garden friend (kitten in picture) joined in for all the action! 🐱🌿
Not only did we work on garden tasks like planting, mulching and pruning but also learned a few lessons including plant identification and scientific classification of living things.
Can't wait for the next one! Big thanks to CC-Montessori for bringing some life back to the garden!
Stay tuned for upcoming events and seasonal goods, now that Fall Temps have officially arrived! 🍁👍🏽🍂😎🌿
With all the recent rain 🌧️ life returns in the garden and sure is growing wild! We are thankful and looking forward to our active fall season upon us. 👍🏽🌱🍂
Check out all the mushrooms growing! 🍄No identification prepared as mushrooms can take some time to properly identify. But they are still pretty neat and provide some insight on the biodiversity happening in the soil!
We spread tons of mulch around our plants and in our walking rows. This typically creates a great environment for fungi and other decomposers looking for organic material to break down! 🪱🪳🪲
Other pictures include recent prep and planting. We are still sowing late summer crops like asian beans, Amaranth, flowers and herbs but also begining buffer crops as in beans and radish as well as cool weather crops like roots, brassicas and hardy greens! 🌿
Lots of weeds, tall grass and mosquitoes to work through but well worth the battle! We will have a big cleanup day coming up if you would like to contribute 😁🐝
Stay tuned for workshops and open hours to begin for the fall season!🌻🌾
Great day yesterday with for their annual Living Local Camp!
This year we planted some late summer crops like pumpkins, long beans, assorted herbs and more!
We learned about sustainable gardening, how to process Amaranth grain, and some go to cooking tips! Not to mention we collected a bunch of seeds to plant all over town. Time for some Guerrilla Gardening!
Although we still lack rain we spent some time observing some awesome crops that have made it through the extreme heat and dry summer!
Always a great time when Youth Odyssey comes around. Despite the heat the participants stayed out the first half of the day planting, harvesting and learning about local flora & fauna.
Thanks y'all! We look forward to next time.
Join us this Sunday 5-8pm!!!
FREE family fun garden party.
Local vendors, Live entertainment, garden tours, Pinatas, Frida look alike competition and food available!
3914 Up River Rd.
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Celebrate with us in "Frida Style"
Great family fun event including local vendors, live entertainment and garden tours!
**New vendors welcome! Please contact Dora: 361-687-5763
$30 for 10x10 spot --- $10 for kids booth
Remember this event is outdoors! Dress for hot weather and keep in mind we will be in our urban garden so all terrain may apply. We will have cold water and shade available on site.
Let us know if you have any questions!
In celebration of Juneteenth, let us reflect on the abundance of COLOR in the garden!
Despite the mega drought we find ourselves in here in South Texas, we find some plants that do not mind the heat and some dry weather! Despite the hardships we continue to GROW and RECONNECT with our ROOTS!
Zucca gourds, blue cream berry Tomatoes, Amaranth, Yucca and other natives doing well.
Not to mention our pollinators and other beneficial bugs we find on the daily in our Learning Graden 😁 Gulf Fritillary and a wolf spider.
As summer approaches we appreciate what growth we have and what's to come!
Stay tuned for our annual Frida Fest coming in July! As well as other opportunities to help out in the garden.
3914 Up River Road
Corpus Christi, TX
78408
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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
Amaranth infused pizza dough! This was a simple way to combine an amazing ancient grain into our recipe. We continue to learn new ways to incorporate this historically significant ancient grain every time we cook! Amaranth is a gluten free pseudocereal that has been used in the America's for thousands of years as a staple crop. High in plant protein and essential amino acids. This easy to grow crop is a must grow in South Texas! Also note it makes an awesome ingredient in a rustic pizza dough! #urbangarden #urbanfarm #superfood #amaranth #pizza #southtexas #zone9b #outdoorcooking #learninggarden #outdooreducation #fireskills #foraging #woodfiredpizza #wildedibles #firebending
Wild Pizza in the Garden was tons of fun!! We can't wait to do this event again. We learned how to forage for wild edibles and make a personal wood fired pizza! The pizza dough was even infused with our home grown Amaranth grain. Check back soon for a behind the scenes on the dough making! Big thanks to the families and friends that joined us. 👍🏽🍕🌿 #urbangarden #outdoorcooking #foragingandfire #woodfiredpizza #outdooreducation #familyfun #scratch #wildedibles #foraging #southtexas #zone9b
Wild Pizza in the Garden was tons of fun!! We can't wait to do this event again. We learned how to forage for wild edibles and make a personal wood fired pizza! The pizza dough was even infused with our home grown Amaranth grain. Check back soon for a behind the scenes on the dough making! Big thanks to the families and friends that joined us. 👍🏽🍕🌿 #urbangarden #outdoorcooking #foragingandfire #woodfiredpizza #outdooreducation #familyfun #scratch #wildedibles #foraging #southtexas #zone9b
Urban Survival Skills was a blast! We explored ancient fire making techniques, foraged some veggies and hand carved some chopsticks to enjoy our snack around the fire🔥😁 #urbangarden #survivalskills #familyfun #southtexas #zone9b #outdooreducation #keeperskills #kindling #teambuilding
Urban Survival Skills! Classes rotate every month. Join us in the coming weeks to learn more about traditional fire making and other skills like foraging and outdoor cooking. Stay tuned as events will be posted soon! #survivalskills #urbangarden #firebending #outdooreducation #southtexas #ancientskills #warmup #fireskills #fallgarden
We had an awesome time smashing pumpkins and learning how to compost the scraps!! It was a beautiful day to be outside enjoying the fall weather. Stay tuned for more family friendly events coming soon! #urbangarden #smashingpumpkins #composting #familyfun #southtexas #autumnweather #outdooreducation
Garden prep before Cold front coming in!!
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!
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