Gardens for Humanity

09/02/2025

Join us for a potluck style community gathering to bring like-minded people together to share, learn, and eat!

• Saturday, September 20, 2025
• 3-7PM Dinner Served at 5PM
• Location: Cornville, AZ
• Free Community Event: More Info & Register >> https://www.greentableinitiative.org/homesteadershub/harvest-equinox-festival

The festival focus will be on celebrating our local food systems, food sovereignty, supporting local growers, seed saving and native and edible plants. This will be a time for us to give thanks for our harvest and to share what Mother Earth has provided for the upcoming winter months.

Bring a dish to share made with ingredients that you have grown or forged in our beautiful region, or use local products from the Verde Valley.

05/29/2025

Gardens for Humanity is looking for teaching artists/gardeners to join our team. We offer an after school club at five schools in the Verde Valley – 4 in Cottonwood, plus West Sedona School.

In these popular clubs, kids discover the beautiful and intricate connections that support life. They experience, through a variety of art, how all the systems work together, and have the chance to observe and express these connections in a fun and creative way!

The grants we receive enable us to compensate our teachers while they bring life to our clubs. Lead teachers receive $50 per hour, plus materials. See the flyer below for details about the clubs. Contact us for more information: [email protected]

03/17/2025

We are so grateful for the support we get from the Arizona Community Foundation of Yavapai County for our programs!

03/17/2025

Join us to get the West Sedona School learning garden ready for spring planting!

02/27/2025

Our friends at the Science Vortex are having a garden clean-up event this Saturday. If you can, they would be grateful for some helpers to get their learning garden ready for spring planting. More information on the flyer:

02/02/2025

We are honoring Janice Montgomery, President of the Verde Thumbs Garden Club, with a gift for her retirement, and encourage you to donate on the "Go Fund Me" site: https://gofund.me/1401f1ec

We are celebrating Janice's many gifts to our gardening community at the Verde Thumbs meeting on Saturday, February 15, 2025, 10 am at the Cottonwood City Library.

In 2015 Janice joined with Richard Sidy, President of Gardens for Humanity, to create the Verde Valley Seed Library. This was an outgrowth of our long-time partnership to assist home, school, and community gardens in the Verde Valley. For almost a decade Janice has been a board member of Gardens for Humanity, contributing her valuable experience.

12/02/2024

We are so grateful for what we accomplished in 2024! Our programs are in full gear for the future. Here is our Year-end letter, "The Power of Our Community" – our strength truly lies in our community!

Email from Gardens for Humanity As we face the uncertainties and challenges of the future, our strength lies in community.   December, 2024 Dear Member and Friends, The Power of Our Community: Gardens

07/01/2024

Important Update: Sculpture Raffle Extended! We're excited to announce that the raffle for our beautiful sculpture has been extended until September 22, 2024!

To give more people a chance to participate and to reach our goal, the raffle will now end on September 22. This will give us a chance to raise more funds to benefit our after school clubs where we offer garden, art, and environmental education programs in five area schools.

Your participation will help give hundreds of kids enriching and memorable experiences.Enter now and don't miss your chance to win this amazing piece!

For more information and to buy tickets visit https://gardensforhumanity.org/raffle/

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm!

06/27/2024

Thank you, Ripple Effect Sedona for visiting our garden and helping us give some tips on starting a pollinator garden! Shout-out to Raluca, Alex, and Ingrid for putting this together!