Garden Club

Structured as a “Farm to Fork” program, Garden Club participants grow and harvest vegetables with friends.

The Garden Club offers adult participants with intellectual and developmental disabilities hands-on harvesting and gardening opportunities in MMI’s barrier-free, raised vegetable garden while having social interaction with peers.

• Individuals age 18 and older are invited to participate.

Participants learn skills needed to plant, manage, weed and harvest various types of vegetables, beans and herbs, in addition to skills related to safely cutting vegetables to eat or use for cooking. A trained recreation therapist runs this program with the assistance of activity technicians.

Details and Schedule

Garden Club typically runs from April through October and meets every other week on Wednesdays for two hours in the evenings.

• Space in this program is limited.
• Transportation is not provided.
• There is a fee for this program and scholarships may be available.

A Gift That Continues to Give

With the opening of MMI’s replacement building in 2021, the recreational therapy department of was gifted a new, on-campus, barrier free, raised garden from the Munroe-Meyer Guild. This became the site of our Garden Club.