Garden Sponsorship

Every year, Gardening Know How awards up to 20 school and community gardens across the U.S. and Canada a $1,000 garden sponsorship. Meet the deserving and inspiring gardens and gardeners who've been awarded the sponsorship over the years. Visit the Gardening Know How School and Community Garden Sponsorship Program page for more information, and learn more about past award recipients below.

  • Virginia “Ginny” Henderson, president of the garden committee at West Plains Community Garden, and Dawn Hicks, health educator with the Howell County Health Department, are . . .
  • Children in wheelchairs admiring a raised bed garden
    Meet Mr. Steven Rude, a school psychologist in the LA school district. At a unique school in Reseda California, Steven evaluates very young children with . . .
  • Gardeners work the soil, a man smiles into the camera, and many wooden raised garden beds stand inside a fence
    Learning about the Hope House program in the Austin region of Texas is an eye-opening and heartwarming experience. Nina’s Hope House is just one of . . .
  • A sunflower garden and a man tending to a fence
    We responded to Cherease Glaspar’s application for a Gardening Know How sponsorship with a resounding yes. She is at the helm of the Kinder Youth . . .
  • Two women plant a tree, a beekeeper holds up a frame of honey, and a gardener tends to a bed
    At its worst, Category 5 Hurricane Michael in 2018 took down 80% of the tree canopy in Bay County, Florida. An area that was already . . .
  • A sign that reads "Unity Gardens", a smiling woman sitting on a bench and standing in a garden
    “They call it all different things, like paradise, sanctuary. It’s a beautiful thing.“ –John, Unity Gardens It’s a challenge to describe Sara Stewart. Perhaps a . . .
  • Children dig in a raised bed, a group of children listens to a woman speak, a person in a coat gardens under a tree
    Donald J Richey Elementary School in Newport, Delaware is a Title I school. Its former Building Principal, Dr. Stephanie Armstrong, wanted to find ways to . . .