Donate to your local non-profit and our mission here at EYYJ!
Donations help us with our sustainable mission to increase locally-grown food and have a direct impact on the Jacksonville community. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Donations are tax-deductible under IRS section 170. Our mission is to educate children and adults on growing healthy food by providing demonstrations and resources to empower them to participate in urban agriculture.
Your Food Forest Headquarters Upholding organic principles & sustainable agriculture
We started out as a family run farm-nursery specializing in edible landscape and garden plants. We firmly believe in practicing organic principles and sustainable agriculture. Going forward we want to continue offering quality edible plants to the community but also provide more educational opportunities for this and help this next generation see the importance of this. We intend on doing this by facilitating more field trip grants and garden grants to schools and clubs. Our mission will include providing employment opportunities to a marginalized population in the special needs community.
EMPOWERING LOCALS TO EAT LOCAL ONE YARD AT A TIME
We are passionate about enabling people to grow their own food using organic practices. There is an Urban Agricultural Revolution going on and we are here to help you get involved! We believe it is possible to incorporate attractive food producing perennials, trees and bushes into your landscape. A yard should be more than a postage stamp sterile environment. It should be a place that feeds mind, body and spirit, a place to share nature with children, family and neighbors.
WE SELL ORGANIC VEGGIE STARTS & HERBS!
We are passionate about supplying people with regionally appropriate fruit and berry bushes, fruit trees, seasonal vegetable starts, selected herbs and perennial tea and salad gardens. All our veggie starts and herbs are grown to certified organic standards!
Sign up for our educational workshops & events below!
Urban Agriculture
At Eat Your Yard Jax or a Location of Your Choice. Minimum of 3 people needed to make a class.
A hands on, all day workshop that takes you through the ropes of urban agriculture. This class will teach you everything from building better soil to fungi production. Help bring your ideas to life and provide a foundation for your gardening. I will cover topics like permaculture, composting, aquaponics, medicinal plants, pickling, crop rotation, and much much more! This event is $100 and starts at 10:00 am until 4:00 pm.
Growing shiitake Mushrooms
A minimum of 3 people is needed to make a class.
Location: Eat Your Yard Jax, Inc.
In this workshop, students will learn about shiitake production on logs. Each participant will walk away with their shiitake logs that are viable for up to five years. Handouts and hands-on instruction are provided also information about the instructor’s years of experience growing shiitakes in North Florida and other training programs around the country. $50 PP for 1 hour.
Herbal teas
At Eat Your Yard Jax or a Location of Your Choice. Minimum of 3 people needed to make a class.
Participants of this workshop will learn about easy to grow and easy to brew herbal teas. We make five to seven different herbal teas at the workshop to sample and discuss many more. Handouts and snacks will be provided. $35pp for 1 hour, includes 3 herbs, pp.
