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The Home Depot and VIVA! Garden for Schools are sponsoring the
National Gardening Association's Youth Garden Grants Program.

VIVA! Garden is now joining The Home Depot in support of the National Gardening Association's Youth Garden Grants. The Home Depot is a major benefactor of the this grant program, which is open to schools and community organizations with child-centered, outdoor garden programs. Over the last 24 years, NGA's Youth Garden Grants program has helped more than 1.3 million youngsters reap rewards and vital life lessons from working in gardens and habitats. To apply for a grant, visit NGA Youth Garden Grants

The Youth Garden Grants program awardings grants to students, youth groups, community organizations, camps, clubs, treatment facilities, and intergenerational groups.

Criteria for grants will include one or more of the following elements:

  • educational focus and/or curricular ties (if applicant is a formal education program)
  • nutrition or plant-to-food connections
  • environmental awareness/education
  • entrepreneurship
  • social aspects of gardening such as leadership development, team building, community support, or service-learning.

NGA logo The National Gardening Association (NGA), founded in 1973, is a non-profit leader in plant-based education. For more than 30 years, the NGA has been working to renew and sustain the essential connection between people, plants, and the envirnoment through gardening

Although we are no longer hosting our own contest, we strongly encourage interested parties to visit the NGA site and apply for a grant.