Vego Garden Giving Back Program

Wilson Elementary School in Sanford, Florida is one of the public schools that serve Seminole County, focusing on STEAM education and hands-on learning in various subjects.

Vego Garden is lending support to improve the school's butterfly garden with our garden beds, so it can be enjoyed by teachers and students alike.

The Encompass Rehabilitation Hospital in Lakeland Florida is a health service leader in the region and specializes in inpatient rehabiliation for neurological and orthopedic conditions.

Vego Garden is contributing to their garden building efforts with Nicklaus Children Hospital with our raised garden beds. The garden will have multiple uses - and harvested produce will be used in their cafe, educational programs, and more.

West Virginia-based Straley Elementary School offers unique science lessons about growing and maintaining plants, which are also used as produce to supplement needy families.

We are proud to support these lessons at the school with our garden beds.

Donations and support via the Giving Back Program will also enhance the school’s capability to supplement nutritional needs for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, with every student eligible to get free lunches based on demographics.

Founded in 1986, the Outreach United Resource Center is a nonprofit organization serving the St. Vrain Valley along Colorado's Front Range. Tasked with the mission to help people achieve self-sufficiency by unifying community resources, one of their largest services is their food program - comprising a community cafe offering free breakfasts and lunches, and a community market providing take-home groceries to support disadvantaged families and individuals.

Vego Garden lend support to OUR Center's work with garden beds - replacing their existing wooden beds that have become worn from years of use. The increased height of our beds will enable the use of the Hugelkultur method, a regenerative gardening method for building and replenishing seedbeds. These taller beds will make it easier for the center’s elderly volunteers to plant and manage produce.

Fairfax, Virginia-based W.T. Woodson High School is one of the top-ranked public high schools in the region. Year after year, Woodson is featured in the Top 100 List of US Public Schools in renowned publications like Newsweek.

As part of the school's Eagle Scout project "Woodson High School Courtyard Appeal Restoration” with Troop 187, Vego Garden’s donated garden beds will be used to build a new garden area with native plants and a picnic table - aiming to encourage students and staff to spend more time outdoors and fully appreciate nature.

Oregon-based Troop 350 is a boy scout organization that aims to empower every eligible youth to become responsible, participating citizens through scout activities, developing the integrity and character to be the leaders of tomorrow.

Garden bed donations from Vego Garden contributed to their Eagle Project - designed to help refurbish a local community garden in Tigard, Oregon, whereby 75 students from a nearby secular school will benefit from gardening classes using our beds.

With the aim to provide youths and families opportunities to experience nature in an urban environment - Wylde Center was founded in 1997, offering environmental education programs and green spaces for development of skills in organic gardening and sustainable lifestyles.

The NGO currently operates five greenspaces in four different Decatur and Atlanta neighborhoods, with year round access for the community to attend the center’s events and educational programs.

We are glad to support their efforts with our garden beds, to be used at one of their 17 partner schools throughout Metro Atlanta to further gardening education for local youths.

Based in Columbus, Georgia, the Food Mill is a well-known food farmacy. The nonprofit organization aims to eliminate barriers and solve food insecurity issues in Columbus, with a specific focus on the North Highlands community, which accounts for one of the highest rates of nutrition insecurity in Columbus.

Vego Garden is honored to support their Farm to School Program, to offer students hands-on gardening education and help reduce food insecurity. Our donated raised garden bed kits will be used at a school without an established garden space, enabling students to plant, care for and harvest produce through nutrition and urban agriculture classes.

Based in Texas, the Orange Christian Services Food Bank is a nonprofit organization tasked with the goal to bring the local community together to grow, harvest, and share fresh fruits and vegetables to help alleviate food insecurity.

Their efforts to help the local community are inspirational, and Vego Garden offered support with new garden bed donations - used to create a pollinator garden for their citrus orchard.

Founded in 1965 as part of a movement to combat poverty, this renowned community agency has assisted disadvantaged individuals in Orleans County for nearly 60 years - with 1077 low-income citizens benefiting from the agency’s food pantries and prepared meals.

Vego Garden is proud to support their efforts and donated three garden beds that were planted in the agency, to help educate low-income families on growing and preparing food from gardens, and becoming self-sufficient. The agency’s mission of 'giving a hand up, rather than a handout' is a powerful one. Keep up the good work!

Since 2010, this exemplary non-profit organization has dedicated itself to furthering edible education and making it more accessible to every child in New York City. By partnering with major schools in the city, Edible Schoolyard NYC continues to educate and promote healthier students and communities through hands-on culinary and gardening education.

These efforts have inspired us and we are glad to support with Vego's garden beds, to help students thrive and develop heathier relationships with food and nature.

In Highland, California, this unique community garden under the Highland Congregational Church is committed to community welfare, growing fresh produce and offering hope for those in need. Raised beds are featured in this garden for a single purpose - to yield crops for community distribution and make a positive impact in the lives of the disadvantaged.

We are honored to support Highland's Giving Garden's mission with our garden bed donations, which will go a long way to cultivate better harvests, and better lives through the gift of kindness.

Mandarin Immersion Magnet School is located in Houston near the Galleria. Due to the pandemic, there were no after-school clubs allowed for that year, the garden is ready for a complete rehaul, and their existing wood beds are not withstanding the wear and tear. We donate some Vego Garden beds to bring students an environmental awareness and lifestyle experience.

The Trueblood Small Family Home LLC is a California Care Center licensed to foster/adopt 6 medically fragile cardiac kids out of hospital settings. For these kids, organic gardening without treated lumber is important for safety. The produce raised will be used to feed the kids & staff and extra is taken home by the staff to help provide for their families. Vego absolutely loved helping with this project!

The Monarch School and Institute is a Houston-based non-profit school for individuals with neurological differences. Students learn so much from the gardens, and what they harvest is then used in the Life Academy to prepare lunches for those on campus. We are delighted to have been able to provide substantial assistance to them through donated garden beds. A community that gardens together, grows together.

Located right here in the Lone Star State, Moss Haven Farm is an incredible urban school farm that fosters a lifelong passion for environmentalism, community, and healthier lifestyles. Vego Garden is proud to support this incredible American Heart Association Teaching Garden.

Responsible environmental practices, ingenuity, and creativity are all central to Girl Scouts mission, and Megan’s Gold Award Project exemplified that perfectly. Megan used a 32” Extra Tall Vego Garden to create a raised rain garden at the senior community center in Green, Ohio. This accessible garden repurposes & filters rainwater before recharging the aquifer below. Way to go, Megan!

In Bloomington, Indiana, this incredible organization works to increase access to healthy food in ways that cultivate dignity, self-sufficiency, and community. Here at Vego we are so honored to play a small part in helping organizations like this one thrive. Anything that is not harvested from the garden directly by patrons is harvested by garden interns and put out into a low-barrier, client-choice Food Pantry, where 4,000 folks come each week in need of emergency food assistance.