‘Hope Farms’ to Bring Healthy Food, Jobs to Underserved Areas of Houston

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Recipe for Success has a long history of bringing fun and delicious nutrition education into Houston classrooms and encouraging kids to eat their veggies at home. Now, along with planting seeds of knowledge, the non-profit will be planting actual seeds as well.

Gracie Cavnar, founder of Recipe for Success, created Hope Farms, a food-access project meant to empower residents in Houston’s struggling neighborhood of Sunnyside, to provide healthful foods to their children.

“Hope Farms has been on my menu of solutions ever since I conjured up the idea for Recipe for Success,” Cavnar said in an article in the Houston Chronicle. “We want to teach children about food by connecting them to it in a visceral way with hands-on nutritional education and work on food access and food-justice issues with urban agriculture.”

The nonprofit’s professional staff will lead classes on gardening, and a full-time farmer will manage the program. “A major piece of Hope Farms is the job training, where we’ve targeted veterans, specifically with an inclination towards homeless veterans,” Cavnar said.

Food from the farm will go to nearby residents, along with the jobs that the farm creates.

The project is supported by Wells Fargo, which funded a $200,000 NeighborhoodLIFT grant.

Stay tuned to see how this farm impacts an underserved food desert community.