King's Garden

Where Hope Grows

King’s Garden is the Horticultural Therapeutic Garden Program of King’s Home.

Our program goals are multifaceted:

• Provide hands-on opportunities in gardening along with teaching horticulture lessons to at-risk youth living in King’s Home residential group home program (plus school groups or community tours).

• Demonstrate the importance of producing and consuming fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs.

• Teach horticulture skills for knowledge and application: how to plant from seed, harvest crops, and prepare healthy meals with produce grown at King's Garden.

• Instruct on life lessons learned from gardening including work ethic, sowing and reaping, etc.

• Train through entrepreneurial experiences (selling at farmers’ markets, etc.).

It takes a lot of love for a garden to grow.

You can help us by donating your time, garden materials, and/or purchasing our goods.

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Below are some items on our wish list: 

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• Medium storage shed (90+ sq ft) 

• Ride-on lawnmower

• Park benches (8+)

• Picnic tables (8+)

• Educational materials, including hands-on displays 

• 6-8 ft tables (4 total) for Education Center

• New folding chairs (20+) for Education Center

• Garden tool belt to hold pruning sheers, etc (3 for workers, otherwise 8 more for students)

• Rakes, stir-up weeders, and shovels

• Seeds and plugs

• ​​​​​Perennial plants

• Mop Head hydrangea​

• Oakleaf hydrangea

• Lime Light hydrangea

• Variety panicle hydrangeas

• Variety Narcissus/Daffodil bulbs

• Other Zone 8 plants

• Long-term dream/goal

• Covered open-air area​

• Professional kitchen

• Larger class space and storage

• Walking garden (including irrigation)