THE GARDEN OF DREAMS

Garden mural painted by Los Pobres Artistas.

The Garden of Dreams was designed and created with our youth in Summer 2020, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The garden is a youth-led and youth-designed safe and educational space where youth are able to engage in their health through our innovative outdoor clinic model.

PLANTING DAYS

The Garden of Dreams was designed and created with our youth in Summer 2020, during the height of the Cov-19 pandemic. The garden is a youth-led and youth-designed safe and educational space where youth are able to engage in their health through our innovative outdoor clinic model.

 In the photo: RE:Frame Youth Arts Center with Dream Youth Clinic / RJ Summer program

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS

Community Workshops offer different opportunities to our young people to learn about environmental science. We partner with Black and Brown greening organizations to provide educational workshops on issues including natural pesticides, seedling to grow your own plant, and how to water conservation. 

We partner with Black and Brown greening organizations to provide Community Workshops in our garden. These workshops support our youth opportunities to further engage in greening, eco stewardship, and environmental science with local Black and Brown greening leaders and to see themselves in the ecoleadership space.

COOKING CLASSES

Cooking Classes educate young people on harvesting and putting the greens that they harvest in the dishes they already love to eat. The cooking workshops happen monthly at DreamCatchers Wellness center.  Youth come and harvest from our garden and then those greens are added onto the cooking workshop of the day, providing educational information about the nutritional value of the veggies they picked and incorporated into their dish.

The Garden of Dreams Cooking Classes provide opportunities for our youth to harvest food that they have grown in the garden and cook together. We hold regular youth-inspired cooking workshops where youth incorporate vegetables from the garden to food that they already like to eat!

 The Garden of Dreams implementation was made possible through generous donations from public and private organizations including The NorCal Resilience Network, Planting Justice, and  The Chase Center.