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 is an initiative of Holy Redeemer, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, and St. Micheal’s Catholic Churches
Welcome to St. Vincent DePaul Community Garden Community Garden, where we cultivate community and nourish people with gifts from the earth. Our garden is a place of learning, sharing, and growing together. Join us and discover the rewards of sustainable gardening!
It is our mission to establish an agricultural garden that can serve as a sustainable food security station to help serve the East Side community of San Antonio. We are a donation based community garden, meaning that all beds are maintained and owned by the garden to supply produce to our “Hot Meals Program. “ which provides delicious and nutritional meals to the city’s hungry and homeless on Tuesdays. We also supply the SVDP Food Pantry with fresh vegetables to give to those seeking supplemental food assistance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This vivacious mother and doting grandmother finds the time to play her part in assisting our gardening efforts even while working part-time at a local women’s boutique. She has taken on the responsibility for the collection of food scraps at the various parishes and the promotion of food-scrap diversion for composting as an alternative to conventional waste disposal. Proving one man’s waste is our garden’s treasure.
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.
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St. Vincent DePaul Community Garden
303 Vargas Alley, San Antonio, Texas 78203, United States
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