Straight 2 the Plate® Mobile Garden Classroom
Let’s End Hunger by Empowering People to Grow Healthy Food at Home (even with no land access) & Become Less Reliant on Handouts!
The Healthy Day Partners (HDP) Straight 2 the Plate® (S2TP) Mobile Garden Classroom is a mobile, staffed program tackling food insecurity and health issues in San Diego County while reducing the carbon impact of traditional and global food systems.
S2TP empowers low-income residents with limited land and transportation resources to create complete, portable home gardens. Building on HDP’s Grab & Grow Gardens program, S2TP provides participants with hands-on support. They choose from recycled, reusable, food-grade 5-gallon buckets, smaller self-watering containers, or windowsill containers and fill them with quality soil and natural fertilizers and seasonally relevant seedlings. Participants also receive a hands-on food growing lesson, and multilingual growing instructions for growing food year-round and year after year.
By partnering with food distribution and affordable housing organizations, S2TP fosters equal access to healthy food across vulnerable communities, greener spaces, and self-sufficiency.