Sunset Vista Community Garden & Learning Center, Inc.
FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO EAT REAL FOOD!
We are a 501(c)3 non-profit located at the beautiful Tuscan-themed Sunset View Farm in Andover Twp, New Jersey, offering a Community Supported Garden which includes an Accessible Garden, Children's Educational Garden, and Recreational/Picnic Area complete with Bocce Court and horseshoe pit, Onsite Learning Center and unique educational programs. Located on 20 acres of Sussex County farmland, Sunset Vista is known for its breathtaking views of nature, beautiful gardens, and self-contained nature classroom. We support and endorse organic practices.
OUR MISSION: Sunset Vista provides small scale organic agriculture and self-sufficiency instruction to individuals and groups to deepen their understanding of food, its source and its relationship to health, while preserving the environment, to inspire others to recreate those principles in their own homes and community environments.
Our Children's Educational Garden is Opening in 2018
Our new Children's Educational Garden is open for 2018! Call us to get more info and register. 973-579-7382. Fun for kids and parents/grandparents/nannies/guardians.
Our Farm To School Program
We bring the farm to your students. Hourly, half day and full day programs.
Available in Spanish.
Se Habla Espanol.
FARM TO BUSINESS WORKSHOPS! Informative and fun topics like Gardening in Small Spaces. Contact us for more information, and check our WORKSHOP page for course content. Partner with us, a local farm, to complement your Wellness Programs.
Our Onsite Learning Center
Are you looking for outdoor educational FIELD TRIPS for your students or youth organization? Visit our National Arbor Foundation Certified Nature Explore Outdoor Classroom, incorporating the farm, the Community Supported Garden, the wooded Nature ID Trail and the fields, feed the chickens, and explore where our food comes from and why making healthy choices matters.
BE A FOOD ADVOCATE AND SPONSOR A PLOT FOR THE FOOD INSECURE
We at Sunset Vista, along with our wonderful donors are fierce advocates for everyone in the county to have fresh, healthful produce available to them.We are committed to helping those who are food-insecure. We offer a "grassroots" response to hunger in our community by growing food for the food-insecure and delivering it to local food pantries. Help us fulfill our commitment to the children and families, the disabled and our seniors. Sponsor growing areas for our food pantry produce. Go to our DONATE tab, or contact us at 973-579-7382 to learn more. And THANK YOU!
Our donors sponsored 21 garden plots for the food-insecure over the past 3 growing seasons.
