Brigit’s Bounty Garden’s primary focus is mentoring and educating children and youth - teaching them work and living skills as well as how to raise their own food.   The local K-8 school children learn about how seeds grow and then plant seeds in their classrooms for new crops in the spring.   4th and 5th grade classes take field trips to the garden in the spring to help prepare for planting and in the fall to help harvest and prepare the garden for the winter. During the summer children come for low-cost camp programs during which they learn about nutrition and the environment in addition to working in the garden, harvesting, and experiencing the joy of eating fresh vegetables that they have harvested themselves.

2020-2021 People Served by Area of Weld County

• Carbon Valley (Berthoud, Dacono, Erie, Firestone, Frederick, Longmont, Mead, Northglenn, Thornton): 661
• County Seat (Evans, Garden City, Greeley): 10
• Outback (Briggsdale, Grover, New Raymer): 0
• Poudre River Corridor (Severance, Windsor): 0
• South County (Brighton, Fort Lupton, Hudson, Keenesburg, Lochbuie): 4
• Thompson River Valley (Johnstown, Milliken): 0
• US-85 Corridor South (Platteville, Gilcrest, LaSalle, Kersey): 0
• US-85 Corridor North (Eaton, Ault, Pierce, Nunn): 0
• Outside Weld County: 72

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2019-2020
2020-2021

One of last summer’s young adult garden participants has taken the knowledge that she got from here and is working on a native reservation in Arizona. She has reached back out with additional questions about plant health and low water maintenance. She came back to visit BBCR this summer.