Feeding Community with Nature’s Assets
SVDP Community Garden is an initiative of Holy Redeemer, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, and St. Micheal’s Catholic Churches
SVDP Community Garden Administrative Staff
CEO - Kevin Fausz
Garden Director - John Hardin
Garden Director - John Hardin
He pastors 3 parishes, sits on the boards of countless community based initiatives and still found the time to imagine and create the SVDP Community Garden. He is a Vincentian priest who holds fast to the Vincentian vow of committing themselves to the service of the poor and suffering.
Garden Director - John Hardin
Garden Director - John Hardin
Garden Director - John Hardin
John Hardin has lived many lives, been very successful in the music industry, wears many hats, but his love for serving others equals only to his love for God and music. He also serves with his knowledge and experience with cooking and gardening. A lover and champion fighter for the disenfranchised and marginalize, he battles past his own health challenges and struggles to live his life in service to God and mankind.
Deputy Garden Director
Garden Director - John Hardin
Volunteer Coordinator-Adriana Seawright
He has worked as a teacher, a musician and even a window blind installer so we knew that his quick learning capabilities, passion for social equity and love for mankind, would make him a perfect candidate to serve and give guidance in the director‘s absence.
Volunteer Coordinator-Adriana Seawright
Children’s Gardening Program Coordinator - Sulema Mendoza
Volunteer Coordinator-Adriana Seawright
A lot of Sicilian grandmothers and widows would probably opt to become homemakers and Netflix bingers when they find themselves having to navigate life alone. But, Adrianna accepted our call to kingdom building by serving in the enlistment, recruitment and management of garden volunteers.
Composting Coordinator
Children’s Gardening Program Coordinator - Sulema Mendoza
Children’s Gardening Program Coordinator - Sulema Mendoza
Children’s Gardening Program Coordinator - Sulema Mendoza
Children’s Gardening Program Coordinator - Sulema Mendoza
Children’s Gardening Program Coordinator - Sulema Mendoza
Our Children’s Gardening Program is coordinated by an energetic San Antonio east side resident who is already using her passion for people by working with countless community initiatives striving to create nutritional justice and equity for the marginalized and economically disadvantaged. This single mother is a Community Health Worker for the City of San Antonio Healthy Neighborhoods program and also involved with the Culinary Health Educaion for Families Recipe Demonstrations.