Since January 2009, the Edible Peace Patch Project has been developing innovative community oriented food system and nutrition educational programs in south St. Petersburg, Florida.

In January 2009, the Edible Peace Patch Project built its first a schoolyard garden at Lakewood Elementary School in St. Petersburg Florida.

Watch a short documentary about the making of the original Peace Patch Garden: 

In January 2012, the Edible Peace Patch Project built a second schoolyard garden at Sanderlin IB World School in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Before the end of 2012, the organization has plans to add three additional schoolyard gardens at Campbell Park Elementary, Melrose Elementary, and Gibbs High School, as well as to begin construction on the first phase of a sustainable urban farm in the vicinity of 18^th Avenue in south St. Petersburg.

Watch a short video of Peace Patch Founder, Kip Curtis, describing the vision and plans for the Edible Peace Patch Project: 

Over the next five years, the Peace Patch plans to develop a farm to cafeteria food system that links schoolyard gardens, community gardens, and an urban farm on the south side with a commercial commissary that prepares healthy meals and packages fresh local food for schools, hospitals, and other large institutions in the St. Petersburg area.

The goal of the Peace Patch Project is to create economic and self-development opportunity for youth, young adults and the unemployed on the south side of St. Petersburg.

Working in partnership with Pinellas County Schools, the Pinellas County Health Department, the Florida Department of Agriculture, USF St. Petersburg, the City of St. Petersburg, as well as public and private institutions around the Tampa Bay Area, the Edible Peace Patch Project will provide education, training, and opportunity in the emergent sustainable local food economy.

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All of the gardens we build are designed according to permaculture principles, including the conservation of water, retention of nutrients, and natural resistance to pest and disturbance.

Lakewood Elementary Peace Patch Garden

 For the past three years, volunteers have provided lesson in the life sciences to Lakewood students as they grow two crops of food every year.  In January 2012, the Lakewood Peace Patch Garden was converted from traditional raised beds to hugelkultur-design raised beds.  In May 2012, Lakewood will host its fourth annual Harvest Fest, celebrating the kids’ experiences in the garden and enjoying fresh local food.

Sanderlin IB World School Peace Patch Garden

In January 2012, with the generous support of the University of South Florida’s Learn & Serve Community grant program, the Peace Patch designed and helped to organize volunteers to build a hugelkultur-deisgn raised bed garden in the schoolyard of Sanderlin IB World School.  In January 2012, the first crops were planted.  In May 2012, the Sanderlin community will host its first annual Harvest fest

Faith House Garden

Welcome to a Sustainable Eckerd
Sustainability at Eckerd College 

The Peace Patch: a Sustainable Garden at Lakewood Elementary
New Roots News
December 8, 2010

Lakewood Elementary, Eckerd College harmonize with garden
St. Petersburg Times
April 26, 2009

Students learn about organic gardening In St. Pete
WMNF 88.5 fm
March 6, 2009

Tampa Bay area schoolyards produce hands-on lessons in their gardens
St. Petersburg Times
February 8, 2009

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Community is the manna that feeds our organization. Your support, both financially and through volunteer efforts, helps the Edible Peace Patch Project not only take root, but actually grow and flourish. Your donations act as seed money and helps to convince other funding sources, both State and Federal, that we are a worthy non-profit that helps nourish the soul of our communities. Please consider giving.

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