Growing Food Changes Lives

A huge thank you to everyone we met this weekend for the fun, food, and friendship! We spent Saturday morning with the amazing San Antonio Million Gardens Project trying everyone’s favorite garden-to-table recipes. They were all delicious, but we’re STILL thinking about Nora’s crunchy collard wraps – YUM. After we said goodbye, we rolled on over to our favorite east side oasis, Gardopia Gardens! There we joined new and old friends for music, giveaways, food, and gardening! Big Green gave away hundreds of garden kits, most of them to new growers, and Gardopia sent hundreds of fruit trees and vines off to happy new homes. We can’t say enough good things about this weekend, but we can say we’ll be back!

We can think of no better way to spend a Saturday morning than at Black Seeds Urban Farms and their “farmily!”

The Big Green Bus pulled up to Black Seeds, a picture-perfect urban farm perched on a hill in the Greenlaw community, to join them for a pop-up farmers market, live podcast, and cooking demo! We gave away garden kits, cuddled some chickens, and drank way too much fresh iced tea!

We took a surprise detour to spend Earth Day on Rockefeller Plaza with the Today Show! Our founder, Kimbal Musk and our partner from Gardopia Gardens, Stephen Lucke appeared on the Today Show to talk about the Big Green Bus Tour and how you can start your own garden at home!

What an event! We spent Thursday evening with our friends at Hand, Heart, and Soul Project and the DAO Committee! Witht he help of our Nonprofit leaders we gave away over 250 home garden kits! All while we listened to engaging panels from garden experts and educators, and got to connect with the Forest Park community. Thank you to everyone who stopped by to see us.

We spent Saturday at the Savannah Chatham Public Schools annual Books and Blankets event where we connected with students and families to bring gardening home with a home garden kit give away. On Sunday we set up shop at the West Broad Street YMCA, where we gave away more gardens!