Enrolling New Members Now! 🌸🪻🌸 Our first Garden Story Project Starts January 2027

Get Involved

The Garden Story Project is one shared book club with three ways to experience the adventure: Children's, Adult, and Family. Whether you're a young reader discovering your first garden stories, an adult looking for meaningful conversations and hands-on experiences, or a family ready to explore together, there's a place for you. You can read, create, garden, learn, volunteer, and connect at whatever level feels right. And while our reading paths may be different, we come together throughout the year for family projects, community events, gardens, celebrations, and service—because we may read different books, but we're growing the same story.

How do you want to participate?

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🌱 Young Reader

Read • Create • Explore

Our youngest adventurers follow a children's book each month and turn the story into a hands-on experience.

📚 Discover a new children's book
🎨 Create a take-home craft
🐞 Explore nature and garden themes
🌱 Complete family Grow-Along challenges
🏅 Collect Garden Passport stamps and badges
🌼 Join special children's and family adventures

Perfect for curious young gardeners, nature explorers, and budding bookworms.

Choose this Path

🌿 Adult Reader

Read • Learn • Garden • Give Back

Adults explore a thoughtfully selected book each month and connect its ideas to gardening, nature, history, plants, sustainability, and community.

📚 Monthly adult book selection and discussion
🌱 Hands-on garden and nature projects
🍵 Seasonal workshops and demonstrations
🌿 Guest speakers and special experiences
🤝 Volunteer and community service opportunities
🌎 Garden Steward challenges and recognition

Come for the book. Stay for the conversation, the garden, and the community.

Choose this Path

🤝 Volunteer

Give Your Time. Grow Something Good.

You don't have to be a book club member to help our garden community flourish. Volunteers can lend a hand at garden workdays, children's activities, workshops, community events, habitat projects, and service opportunities.

🌱 Garden workdays
📚 Reading and children's activities
🌼 Event assistance
🐝 Stewardship projects
🍅 Harvest and community projects
🏅 Track hours toward volunteer recognition

Every helping hand plants a little more good in our community.

📚 Educator

Bring the Garden Into the Classroom

Educators can use One Garden, One Community™ as a springboard for literacy, science, environmental education, gardening, and hands-on learning. Our seasonal books, activities, challenges, and resources can complement classroom learning or inspire special projects.

📖 Book and reading resources
🌱 Garden-based learning activities
🐞 Nature and environmental projects
🎨 Hands-on crafts and challenges
📥 Printable educational resources
🌎 Community stewardship opportunities

Let's turn reading into discovery—and discovery into action.

🌼 Community Partner

Let's Grow Something Together.

Libraries, schools, gardens, nonprofits, businesses, civic organizations, and community groups can help expand the adventure. Partnerships might include hosting an activity, providing expertise, sponsoring a project, offering a special experience, or helping connect families with local resources.

🌿 Host a program or workshop
📚 Share expertise or resources
🌱 Sponsor a garden project
🤝 Collaborate on community events
🐝 Support stewardship initiatives
📣 Help spread the word

When our community shares its talents, resources, and stories, everyone grows.

❤️ Supporter

Help Keep the Garden Growing.

You can help make this adventure possible even if you can't attend the book club. Your support helps provide children's books, craft supplies, garden materials, educational programs, stewardship projects, and opportunities for families to experience the joy of reading and growing together.

Ways to support: