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Celebrating the Art in Earth

Gardens for Humanity offers an art enrichment program we call “Celebrating the Art in Earth” to six schools in Sedona and the Verde Valley. This program provides much needed art [read more]


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About Gardens for Humanity

Board Members Wanted Gardens for Humanity is looking for new board members to help guide our programs into the future. We are seeking people who share our goals and have [read more]


Cottonwood Head Start Garden

The Cottonwood Head Start school garden serves 100+ children ages 3-5 years old and their families.  It is a place to learn about growing plants, about healthy nutrition, and about [read more]


West Sedona School Garden

Transforming the challenging terrain of the high desert into a rich and productive garden will serve school and community by providing a place to learn about small-scale food production, environmental [read more]


Desert Star School Garden

Desert Star, which uses the Waldorf approach, is located on three acres in Cornville, Arizona where children feel connected with the natural cycles of life and there is ample space [read more]


Big Park Butterfly Garden

The “Butterfly Garden” was a project by several artists who created butterfly stepping stones and planted flowering shrubs, wildflowers and herbs that would attract butterflies and other pollinators. It is now used [read more]


Greening Harmony

Building Community Through Building Gardens Greening Harmony is a grass roots neighborhood organization that started in the Harmony area of West Sedona in 2012. With the support of Gardens for [read more]


Community Education

The aim of our community education classes, events and volunteer opportunities is to come together as an extended “neighborhood” with expert teachers in our community to gain new knowledge and [read more]


Sedona Winds Assisted Living Accessible Healing Garden

The Sedona Winds Assisted Living accessible garden is a game-changer for gardening and a healing garden for the elderly and disabled. It was initiated by a group of residents led [read more]


St. John Vianney

The community garden at St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Sedona was begun as a small “Three Sisters Garden” in 2009. Gardens for Humanity met with a group of parishioners [read more]


Peace Garden

The Peace Garden, dedicated to the 17th Karmapa, is a healing sanctuary and botanical garden located in the heart of Sedona at the Creative Life Center. It is a garden [read more]


A Garden Curriculum

The Earth Is Our Teacher “We believe that the natural world — the marvelous interwoven communities of plants, animals and other creatures formed through the agencies of Fire, Water, Air [read more]


The Life of a Tree

The Life of a Tree: An exploration through Stories, Music, Collages at Sedona and the Verde Valley Schools. Teacher: Nancy Robb Dunst. Music by Joe Wise. A class in the [read more]


The Color Wheel and the Colors We Eat

Learning about vegetables and fruits through observation and art. A program sponsored by Gardens for Humanity and taught by Sedona area artists to increase students’s awareness of the foods they


Earth Cups

This is a slideshow of Sedona’s first annual Earth Cups fundraising event in 2011 to benefit Gardens for Humanity elementary school program, “Celebrating the Art in Earth.”


Making a Garden

“Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events of their lives.” ~ Adele Seronde How do we go about making a garden? Gardens [read more]


Sun Catchers

Lessons in observing the parts of Flowers by making Sun Catchers in Sedona and the Verde Valley schools. Teacher: Maleita Wise. A class in the Gardens for Humanity Program “Celebrating [read more]


Spring Planting Festivals

  Spring Planting Festival 2013 Spring Planting Festival 2012 Spring Planting Festival 2011    


The Spirit of Our Legacy

GUIDING PRINCIPLES The Earth is our responsibility — our Sacred Garden. The Earth is our teacher. We realize that a garden is a microcosm of the whole Earth. When we [read more]


2010 Idea Tour