After our summer break, HERE IS our fun and educational September Newsletter. and we are in full swing with the erecting and planting of Gardens of Hope in our community.
NEW to our Foundation, we are adding something you have been asking for: MEMBERSHIP!
We are excited to announce our new membership program. Many of you have asked me how you can make a difference, and we have just rolled out this opportunity.
For as little as $6 a month, your membership takes gardens within our parks and recreation, school campuses, vacant properties that might lay dormant, and creates an exemplary learning environment for providing hands-on nutrition and health education, promoting positive time outdoors, physical activity and developing collaborative skills.
By February, our students had already experienced months of hands-on learning through their organic Gardens of Hope. From planting tiny seeds to tending their crops, harvesting fresh produce, and exploring the fundamentals of nutrition, they were finally ready for the next exciting step: learning how to think like a chef. […]
On a picture-perfect gardening day, Tuesday, October 12, 2021, the Joseph P Cory Foundation (JPCF) and The School District of Palm Beach County’s Transportation Facilities (SDPBC) planted the first of four Gardens of Hope, to kick off a new employee wellness initiative. This project was the collaborative efforts of Nada […]
Routinely, September is the time in our gardening cycle, when the Joseph P Cory Foundation visits their existing Gardens of Hope, and the new sites that will come onboard. The summers can be harsh in South Florida, hurricane season is still upon us, and honestly everything we planted was eaten, […]
Published in the SUN SENTINEL – April, 26, 2019 About 30 students from Hammock Pointe Elementary School in Boca Raton, along with their parents, recently planted herbs in the school’s Garden of Hope with the help from the Joseph P Cory Foundation. With the goal to educate children and families about beneficial, […]