There are lots of ways to use horticulture and gardening to help your community. Here are just a few ideas.

• raise a garden and donate the produce to a shelter or the local food pantry
• help students at a preschool raise a small garden
• assist senior citizens in the neighborhood with planting, weeding, and/or harvesting their gardens
• sell produce to help raise money for a local charity
• plant a "raised garden" with physically challenged kids
• plant a historic garden to teach about farming methods of long ago
• grow pumpkins to 1) decorate with nursing home residents or 2) sell to raise money for a good cause
• plant flowers and/or shrubs at a nursing home, children's home, women's shelter, school, or day care
• landscape a Habitat for Humanity house
• landscape the playground at a community center
• plant wildflowers along a roadway
• help design a landscape plan for a new park
• rake leaves or plant flowers for elderly neighbors

Tell us how you plan to combine gardening with service learning!

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