Above Ground Urban Agriculture (AGUA) Apprenticeship 

Currently A Just Harvest employs 3 apprentices who receive on the job training and education working in our three different growing spaces. Together they form “Team AGUA.”

Team AGUA works in 3 distinct grow spaces: Anthony’s Garden, Gale Academy’s Greenhouse and our Hoophouse. 

The apprenticeship covers skills and topics including:  

  • Organic growing: 
    • food: vegetables, herbs, fruit 
    • landscaping: flowers, native plants, ornamental perennials 
    • houseplants 
  • Working in 3 distinct grow spaces: Anthony’s Garden, Gale Academy’s Greenhouse and our Hoophouse.  
  • Sales and distribution: selling seedlings, produce and cut flowers through farm stands, plant sales and to restaurants. Team AGUA also does free distributions though our Community Kitchen to make sure none of the food we produce goes to waste. 
  • Running our garden education programs for elementary students: teaching and mentoring the students of Gale Community Academy (currently on hold due to Covid-19)
  • Sustainability, environmental justice, food justice, plant and environmental science.
  • And more!
In 2020, Team AGUA produced 342 pounds of produce for the community’s nutrition and wellbeing!

Through the work the apprentices do we are able to grow food for the community, make it affordable and accessible, provide beautiful spaces for the community to enjoy, demonstrate food production to the community, increase awareness and interest in food production, teach others how to grow food and about all the things they are learning and much more. 

After School and Summer Garden Education

When it is safe to do so pending Covid-19 vaccinations, Team AGUA will restart the after school and summer programs for Gale students (Garden & Greenhouse Club) to teach and mentor local elementary students about growing healthy food. 

The educational programs run year-round moving between our indoor and outdoor learning spaces depending on the season!

Why Urban Agriculture?

A Just Harvest believes in cultivating abundance to fight hunger. Food sovereignty and gardening for one’s own food go hand in hand. When we come together as a community to care for our environment, be stewards of the land’s natural resources, and develop the skills to feed each other, we divest from the food systems that have created so much hunger in the first place.

Here’s a look at what Team AGUA accomplished in 2020! 

What the heck is a hoop house? Here’s a video to learn more.

Want to get involved?

Volunteer with Team AGUA