2014 In Numbers

OPPORTUNITY GARDENS
Total households served 113
Households served in 2014 94
Total Square Feet 9038.95
# Active Square Feet 5777.5
Hours Mentoring/Installing



734.36
Testimonials from Opportunity
Gardens participants:
Im most interested in
gardening at home because
I enjoy just growing my own
fruits and vegetables like my
ancestors. And when I got sick
last year, my community still
kept the garden growing for
me and them, because I share
what I grow.
I like having a garden
because I have fresh vegetables
close by, I know theyre organic,
and I get to share them with the
neighbors who might not have
fresh vegetables.
URBAN FARM
EXPERIENCES
Children served 866
Children experiences 64
Adults served 188
Adult experiences 15
OUTDOOR CLASSROOM
PROGRAM
Children served 1336
Children experiences 18
Slow Food Katy Trail Harvest of
the Month Children served
150
Slow Food Katy Trail Harvest of
the Month events 6
COMMUNITY EDUCATION
Adults served 198
Adult experiences 47
Outreach experiences 10
Workshops 5
LOCAL FOOD
OPPORTUNITIES
NETWORK
Events posted 27
Connections made 19
Events hosted 4
Attendees at events 225
Reached by website 310
VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
Total volunteers 506
Volunteer hours 4050.5
EDIBLE LANDSCAPING
Customers
43
Projects
54
Kilgores Community Garden
Individual volunteers 66
Individual vol. hours 337
Workdays 31
Wine Cellar Garden Project
Classes 13
Hours 45
URBAN FARM
PRODUCTION
Planting for the Pantry
Rows sponsored 24
Funds raised $28,830
Servings donated 18,342
Vegetable Sales
$16,880
Pounds of Produce Harvested

9,600
HARVEST HOOTENANNY
Attendance 1,000+

January

July

Luckys Market celebrates

grand opening, and
awards CCUA a $10,000
donation.

Boone County Community Trust awards $20,460

grant to the Opportunity
Gardens program.
Youth Empowerment
Zone starts weekly visits
and lessons at the Urban
Farm.
Planting for the Pantry
surpasses fundraising
goal of 20 rows.

Greenhouse is finished
and ready for 2014
planting.

February

august

First Winter
Member Dinner at
Main Squeeze.
Opportunity Gardens
program starts working
with Refugee Services.
Thanks to a grant partnership with the Missouri River
Communities Network (MRCN), CCUA welcomes
Urban Farm Education AmeriCorps VISTA, Kelsey
Grant, to the team.

March

CCUA enters strategic partnership with Slow Food Katy Trail

and its Harvest of the Month
Program, adding AmeriCorps
Members Lori McCurdy and
Steve Riesenberg and the
CCUA Outdoor Classroom
Program.
Katy Trail

Second Annual Summer Member

Dinner at the Urban Farm

september

Staff says goodbye to

Opportunity Gardens
AmeriCorps VISTA
Christine Baker, and
welcomes Ellen Moore
and Liberty Hunter.
Moves into new office at
1007 N. College Ave.
CCUA introduces Local Food
Opportunity Network.

april

Missouri Young Farmers Coalition (MOYFC) and

CCUA collaborate in hosting final potluck of the season.
Luckys Farmers Market and Chipotle host
fundraisers for CCUA.
City Garden School
concludes a season of
activities at the Urban
Farm.
Adventure Club brings
80+ kids out to Urban
Farm for all day education event.

october - December

Farm Manager, Carrie

Hargrove, teaches
Garden Greenhorns in
urban farming practices.

MAY

Opportunity Gardens
program passes 100th
family mark; tills up
Oak Towers Giving
Garden.

Kilgores Community Garden celebrates its 5th year.

CCUA leads Crop Mob at Happy Hollow Farm, where
staff and volunteers install raised beds for a perennial
herb garden.
Executive Director
Billy Polansky delivers
keynote speech at The
Horticultural Society
of New Yorks Urban
Agriculture Conference; staff coordinators
attend conference.

june

CCUA hosts the 5th Annual Harvest Hootenanny with

help from new community partners: The Columbia
Area Career Centers Culinary Arts Program, Sustainable Farms and Communities, The Blue Note, and the
Southern Boone Learning Garden.
KBIA/91.3 FM launches monthly gardening segment,
Farm Your Yard starring Carrie Hargrove, during
Thinking Out Loud.
The Outdoor Classroom
Program receives a
$55,320 grant from the
State Farm Youth Advisory Board.

Carrie Hargrove
represents Columbia at
Slow Foods Terra Madre
and Salone del Gusto
conference in Italy.

The C.A.R.E Art Gallery

installs a wheelchair
accessible walkway in
the Teaching Garden,
and paints a mural on
the stepping stones.

2014 Garden Greenhorn

Cohort graduate.

CCUA raises $11,595 through ComoGives and end-ofthe-year campaign.

Planting for the Pantry 2014 season concludes year with
24 rows sponsored.
127 memberships purchased in 2014 (including ComoGives, Memberships and Donor Circle donations).