Urban Greenworks (UGW) provides programming to under-resourced and under-served urban communities throughout South Florida. We look to create food secure communities, improve the environment, train & educate people – one individual, one garden, one community at a time. In 2017-2018, we begin using the Whole Measures for community food systems approach to holistically analyze our work and its efficacy. Food Security programming includes Cerasee Farm, 1st urban farm model in Miami’s inner cit, which we hope to expand to an acre plus this year; Hammocks in Da Hood, a global warming mitigation project; The Bee Girlz, an urban pollination awareness initiative that empowers young women; Northwestern Senior HS food forest and hydroponics project that brings the classroom to the outdoors; and Kidz Grow, a program that develops gardens at elementary and middle schools in Liberty City, creating a foundation in agro-ecology & environmental studies by high school. All of these projects are focused on issues of food security in urban food deserts. The Mustard Seed Project is our horticultural therapy program for women. We have established therapeutic gardens at safe houses for woman victims of human trafficking. As we expand the program into various communities, we are developing product lines in the food and plant industries to create income streams for women in transition and/or recovery. In September, Mustard Seed will be at the National Horticulture Therapy Association Conference in Vermont to present our work and findings as a model for replication in facilities throughout Florida and the U.S.

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Urban Greenworks

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