July 2nd Saturday Gardening Celebration

Special Community Garden

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Special Community Garden in Phoenix

Special Community Garden in Phoenix: Tiger Mountain Foundation. Hello Friends! Tiger Mountain Foundation is holding a special community garden celebration on Saturday, July 9th, At the beautiful Spaces of Opportunity Garden. Come celebrate with us as we will be hosting our garden session from 8 am to 11:30 am. You are not going to want to miss the coming together of our community. With everything from community performance to seed harvesting, The Tiger Mountain Foundation is happy to bring everyone together with the love of nature and life. We will also be finishing off the session off with a wonderfully prepared meal. Featuring some of our homes have grown fruits and vegetables.

We will also have our donation-based produce stand featuring vegetables grown in our garden! For more information, please visit TigerMountainfoundation.org.

What is Agri-Landscape?

Agri-Landscape with Tiger Mountain is truly an incredible experience. But first let’s go over the basics of Agri-Landscape. Agri-Landscape is a foundation of a landscape that creatively and elegantly integrates elements of productive agriculture. It does this by means of growing produce (edible fruits, vegetables, and herbs). Also, it could be growing other useful plants to reduce useless consumption, landfill waste, and water usage.

We have been proud to help our communities GROW. TigerMountain’s mission is to improve local food access & sustainability by transforming landscapes into elegant, edible food gardens. These also can be easily managed with the help of online tools, education, and professional support.

Have TigerMountain create a beautiful edible landscape in your yard or workplace open areas. Contact us for ideas and a quote. 602-687-7725

Economic/Community Development

Economic/Community Development– TMF also has a profound impact on the lives of at-risk youth and their families in the community by presenting them a healthy eating and living lifestyle.  We provide tangible value in the community through our intergenerational, multicultural experiential learning sessions which impact food scarcity.  Additionally, we provide gardens with nutritious, chemical-free fruits, and vegetables. TigerMountain Foundation also empowers participants and their families with skills to be valuable employees or have the knowledge to start their own backyard gardens to resolve their food scarcity issues.

 

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Garden Celebration at the Garden Of Tomorrow May 28th!

Garden Celebration at the Garden Of Tomorrow

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Phoenix Community Events

Garden Celebration: Garden Of Tomorrow. Hello Friends! Tiger Mountain Foundation is holding a special community garden celebration Saturday, May 28th.
We will be hosting our garden session from 8 am-11:30 am which also includes garden volunteering, a community performance, a meal, and also a donation-based produce stand featuring vegetables grown in our garden! For more information, please visit the Garden of Tomorrow Facebook Page. Additionally, we host many Phoenix Community Events.

We Cultivate Better Communities – Through Co-Op Gardens in Phoenix, AZ

Our mission is simple: To empower communities to better themselves from within. We also do this through community garden volunteer work through Co-Op gardens in Phoenix, AZ and landscaping initiatives. In South Phoenix, and other challenged communities where we work, there are high rates of incarceration, poor health choices, and a low ranking education system. So how do we combat these challenges? Asset Based Community Development (ABCD). That just means we don’t give a hand out, instead we give the community a hand up.
Many of the staff, including CEO Darren Chapman, are also formerly incarcerated persons from the very neighborhoods we serve. Our advisors and 8 board members come from administrative positions in such large organizations. These include Vitalyst Health, Bank of America, and Keep Phoenix Beautiful. We are an Arizona Qualified Charity and receive tax credit donations plus receive individual donations through various employer payroll deductions.

How We Empower Communities To Help Themselves

  • Restore pride in a community through beautification of vacant lots.
  • Inspire people to volunteer and engage in their community.
  • Provide youth the skills they need to prepare them for employment—and also a better life.
  • Provide people on-the-job opportunities through landscaping, planting in community gardens, and also selling and marketing what they grow at farmers’ markets.
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March Garden Event – 2nd Saturday

Celebrate with Tiger Mountain Foundation

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Join TMF, volunteers, community stakeholders, gardeners, farmers, and local residents as we improve the landscape of the Spaces of Opportunity.

Come get your fresh veggies, community camaraderie, healthy cooking demonstration, and live entertainment. Mint, tomatoes, onions, okra, radishes, garden-fresh melons, spinach, chard, greens, tomatoes, pecans, citrus, squash, peppers, various beans, corn, basil, and various other produce will be on the prepping, planting and harvesting menu.

There will be live entertainment resonating from our Garden of Tomorrow Community stage, Local DJ’s, great food from Chef Lee Mc Clarity and other treats from the TMF community to satisfy your taste buds after your volunteer effort.

Wear a hat, shade screen, closed-toed comfortable garden shoes, and bring water.

Note to our Walking Club:

The 2nd and 4th Saturday’s walking/stretching group sign-in begins at 8:00 a.m.

Remember the health benefits of quite simply drinking water.  Do not underestimate the power of water.

“Stay focused and persistent; insist that your mind, body and soul turn your dreams into reality!”

Much Love.

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March Garden Event – 4th Saturday

Join us for some great fun

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Our 4th Saturday at the Garden of Tomorrow typically brings some TMF favorites:

  • Gardeners Sam Kelsall
  • Darren Chapman
  • Zuri Roland
  • Beth Salazar
  • Grill Master Linda Hooper Bonham
  • B.J. the D.J.
  • MC Syl Primous
  • The Senior Greeting Party (Walter Harris, Winifred Belcher, and Francis Lonnie)

Join us in the garden for some great fun, volunteering, live entertainment, and food.

We start with a brief history of who we are and what we do, we exercise and then get our hands dirty in the garden. End the day by enjoying some lunch and music or art by our local residents.

Expect great veggies, the TMF Youth Market tables, entertainment from metro Phoenix, over 3000+ participants yearly, and community building in our eclectic garden safe zones.

Wear a hat, shade screen, closed-toed comfortable garden shoes, and bring water.

No need to sign up, just show up.

For groups of 8 or more: Please just let us know you’re coming so we can make sure we’re ready for you (and have enough food.)

Every 4th Saturday we also have products available for a donation to TMF’s projects and youth initiatives.

Note to our Walking Club:

The 2nd and 4th Saturday’s walking/stretching group sign-in begins at 8:00 a.m.

Remember the health benefits of quite simply drinking water.  Do not underestimate the power of water.

“Stay focused and persistent; insist that your mind, body, and soul turn your dreams into reality!”

Much Love.

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February Garden Event-2nd Saturday

Agriscaping | TigerMountain Foundation | Phoenix

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Join TMF, volunteers, community stakeholders, gardeners, farmers and local residents as we improve the landscape of the Spaces of Opportunity.

Come get your fresh veggies, community camaraderie, healthy cooking demonstration and live entertainment. Mint, tomatoes, onions, okra, radishes, garden fresh melons, spinach, chard, greens, tomatoes, pecans, citrus, squash, peppers, various beans, corn, basil and various other produce will be on the prepping, planting and harvesting menu.

There will be live entertainment resonating from our Garden of Tomorrow Community stage, Local DJ’s, great food from Chef Lee Mc Clarity and other treats from the TMF community to satisfy your taste buds after your volunteer effort.

Wear a hat, shade screen, closed toed comfortable garden shoes and bring water.

Note to our Walking Club:

The 2nd and 4th Saturday’s walking/stretching group sign-in begins at 8:00 a.m.

Remember the health benefits of quite simply drinking water.  Do not underestimate the power of water.

“Stay focused and persistent; insist that your mind, body and soul turn your dreams into reality!”

Much Love.

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February Garden Event-4th Saturday

Gardening Projects | Phoenix, AZ

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Our 4th Saturday at the Garden of Tomorrow typically brings some TMF favorites:

  • Gardeners Sam Kelsall
  • Darren Chapman
  • Zuri Roland
  • Beth Salazar
  • Grill Master Linda Hooper Bonham
  • B.J. the D.J.
  • MC Syl Primous
  • The Senior Greeting Party (Walter Harris, Winifred Belcher and Francis Lonnie)

Join us in the garden for some great fun, volunteering, live entertainment and food.

We start with a brief history of who we are and what we do, we exercise and then get our hands dirty in the garden. End the day by enjoying some lunch and music or art by our local residents.

Expect great veggies, the TMF Youth Market tables, entertainment from metro Phoenix, over 3000+ participants yearly and community building in our eclectic garden safe zones.

Wear a hat, shade screen, closed toed comfortable garden shoes and bring water.

No need to sign up, just show up.

For groups of 8 or more: Please just let us know you’re coming so we can make sure we’re ready for you (and have enough food.)

Every 4th Saturday we also have produce available for a donation to TMF’s projects and youth initiatives.

 

Note to our Walking Club:

The 2nd and 4th Saturday’s walking/stretching group sign-in begins at 8:00 a.m.

 

 

Remember the health benefits of quite simply drinking water.  Do not underestimate the power of water.

“Stay focused and persistent; insist that your mind, body and soul turn your dreams into reality!”

Much Love.

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Garden of Tomorrow Community Garden Event – Oct 2015

TigerMountain Garden of Tomorrow

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This Saturday, October 24th is the 4th Sat. of October. TMF will be meeting at the Garden of Tomorrow community garden. Join us for our regular 4th Saturday of the Month Garden Event.

Join us in the garden for some great fun, volunteering, live entertainment and food.

We start with a brief history of who we are and what we do, we exercise and then get our hands dirty in the garden. End the day by enjoying some lunch and music or art by our local residents.

No need to sign up, just show up.

For groups of 8 or more: Please just let us know you’re coming so we can make sure we’re ready for you (and have enough food.)

Every 4th Saturday we also have produce available for a donation to TMF’s projects and youth initiatives.

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TigerMountain Foundation Mission and Models

Non-Profit Community Garden

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TigerMountain Foundation (TMF)

Passage to a stronger community

Who We Are:  

TigerMountain Foundation’s mission is to empower people by building flourishing community gardens, providing life skills support and workforce development through neighborhood revitalization and beautification.

As a change agent for healthy living, TMF envisions a healthy community where all citizens can reach their maximum potential.

 

What We Do:  

Through our model of Asset Based Community Development, we motivate communities to better themselves from within. In South Phoenix and other challenged communities where we work, there are high patterns of incarceration, bad health choices and a low ranking education system along with closed schools.

 

To combat these challenges, we work hard to educate and inspire people within a broad intergenerational and multi-ethnic background. We have two important focus areas that govern and power the educational, instructional and mentoring engines of TigerMountain Foundation:

 

  • Community Gardens (Produce Production)
  • Landscaping

 

Through several years of seeing our impact, we have found that long term success looks like the following:

 

  • The restoration of pride in community through the beautification of vacant lots
  • A reduction of recidivism (80% of TMF participants stay in school or out of jail as opposed to the community’s current 81% jail recidivism)
  • A more productive youth with additional skills to prepare for employment and a better life
  • A stronger spirit of volunteerism and community engagement

 

How You Can Help:  

  • Volunteer your time and expertise to help work in our community gardens; deliver fresh produce to a downtown food pantry; provide landscaping work to help low-income families
  • Donate cash to support our work (your donation can be BOTH a federal tax deduction and a state tax credit–meaning up to $400 annually will cost you nothing)
  • Donate tools, lawn/garden furniture, etc.

 

Thank you for caring about making our communities a better place to live for all!

 

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Support Spaces of Opportunity

Local Community Gardens in Phoenix, AZ

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Please join us at the offices of the Roosevelt School District as they vote to extend the lease for the Spaces of Opportunity garden.This is our newest garden at 13 Ave and Vineyard. The garden is a collaboration with other organizations from Phoenix, both profit and nonprofit.
Your support will determine the future of the community garden: Spaces of Opportunity! A  strong show of support will send a strong message to the District to support this worthy project.

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Spaces of Opportunity Community Garden Event – Oct 2015

Celebrate with Tiger Mountain Foundation

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This Saturday, October 10th is the second Saturday of October. TMF will be meeting at the Spaces of Opportunity community garden. Join us for our regular 2nd Saturday of the Month Garden Event.

Join us in the garden for some great fun, volunteering, live entertainment and food.

We start with a brief history of who we are and what we do, we exercise and then get our hands dirty in the garden. End the day by enjoying some lunch and music or art by our local residents.

No need to sign up, just show up.

For groups of 8 or more: Please just let us know you’re coming so we can make sure we’re ready for you (and have enough food.)

Every 2nd Saturday we also have produce available for a donation to TMF’s projects and youth initiatives.

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