Sprout Joy! Hope Blooms Community Garden

Our Sprout Joy program is our community garden project that will cultivate hope, grow community and nurture connection. The garden will provide supplemental cut flowers, greenery and accents for our repurposed bouquets from seed to bloom. The program will include seedling selection, planting, flower harvesting, bouquet assembly, and most importantly, delivery of completed bouquets to those we serve.

Past donated garden blooms

These special garden blooms will trigger fond memories of personal gardens for those we serve while also offering our volunteers another hands-on opportunity to work with flowers, which improves a person’s overall well-being. According to the American Community Gardening Association, community gardening fosters a sense of belonging and social cohesion among participants. Our gardens will also encourage intergenerational interactions, bringing people of different ages and backgrounds together.

A Petal It Forward recipient receiving garden blooms.

Engaging the community in every aspect of the process from growing to delivering the flowers will also deepen the impact of our mission and the sense of belonging created by their efforts and the tangible gift of flowers.

Sprout Joy goes back to the roots of our founding, when our founder Kelly spent summers in the garden with her sweet Grandma Freda.

This project will entail building 10 raised garden boxes that will supply essential fresh cut blooms to help fulfill the delivery of our mission and support of our Petal it Forward program while also creating a collaborative, hands-on experience for our volunteers.

Learn more about how you can support our community garden.