Happy Roots – Help Keep Our Greenhouse Growing

From preschools to senior health & rehabilitation centers, and all ages in between, Happy Roots mission is to work towards increase access to fresh healthy local foods by providing nature-based therapeutic and educational services to enhance the wellness of the community and the environment.

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Henderson Independent High School greenhouse was our very first project and remains the heart of this operation. It’s been announced that this school will be closing in the very near future due to infrastructure. We cannot lose a resource like this greenhouse which has been one of the main reasons for much of this program’s success. Serving these many locations, we are due for bigger space anyways. It is time for us to grow… but in a different way.

Happy Roots has been blessed with an incredible opportunity to acquire a 30′ x 96′ commercial greenhouse that would significantly boost our production and enable us to serve more schools and individuals in our community. With this great opportunity comes extra expenses… including grading, tool rentals for disassembly and reassembly, running electricity and water, manpower, materials including new plastic, ground stakes, ground cover, shade cloth, extra nuts or bolts, and especially food for our dedicated and hardworking volunteers helping move this thing.

Despite the pandemic challenges and not being able to host our annual fundraisers, we have thankfully still been able to sustain and grow. Since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020, we have been able to gift over 200 garden kits (raised beds, soil, plants, seeds, tools and tutelage) to local students, families, and individuals in need. Some gardens went to schools and community centers. We are seeing students we worked with in preschool now in elementary school, elementary school now in middle school, and families on their 3rd and 4th seasons of gardening. One family who started out with zero gardening experience has turned their backyard into an all-out urban farm in just one year’s time. This isn’t a one-time deal. People are sticking with it.

Now more than ever we need support to take our program to the next level. Would you consider contributing to this epic move?!

Now is the time. Let’s do this thing!