Partnering with others to utilize gardening to enhance the capacity of individuals and groups to make healthy, nutritious choices; and to help transform their choices into desired action and outcomes that build stronger, healthier families and communities. Offers residents: - Raised Bed Garden Box(es) - Access to Garden Plants & Garden Tools - Garden Education Workshops - Community Garden Tours - Gardening Conflict Resolution

Provides activities and social programs including: - Cards and games - Congregate dining - Crafters club - Health and wellness services: May include foot care, eyewear repair, gardening workshops, and other health-related activities - Live music Click here for additional information on activities, dates, and times

Community Center programs include: - Basketball and lacrosse lessons - Birthday parties - Cheerleading lessons - Golf lessons and floor hockey lessons - Gymnasiums with equipment and indoor soccer - Gymnastics - Indoor walking track - Private music lessons - Racquetball/wallyball courts - Senior club offering activities for active older adults - Skate park - Softball - Swimming - Tennis - Weight room with exercise and free weight equipment Eidem Homestead Brooklyn Park Historical Farm: - Afternoon tea parties - American Girl parties - Farm Market - Gardening instruction - Gift-making - Movies on the Barn - Playground - Residential camps - Storytime - Summer concert series - Teddy Bear picnics - Tours - Traveling Trunk - Winter activities, and special events Zanewood Recreation Center programs include: - Indoor ice arenas - ice hockey instruction and clinics and ice skating instruction - Karate, safety awareness and self defense classes - Multi-purpose room, game room, art room and classrooms - Sculpture classes Parks include a variety of amenities unique to each park including trails, playground areas, picnic shelters, outdoor skating rinks, baseball/softball/soccer/football and t-ball fields

Promotes youth development by instilling a sense of accomplishment, competence, belonging, and usefulness. Programs: - Academic success: Goal is for every member to graduate on time with a plan for their future, whether that plan is post-secondary or a career. Homework help, tutoring, mentoring, chess club, computer classes, and career exploration. - Character and leadership: Offers programs designed to help members practice and strengthen leadership and problem-solving skills. Community service and support groups. - Healthy lifestyles: Programs help members learn how to engage in positive behaviors, set personal goals and grow into self-sufficient adults who can make healthy choices. Yoga, exercise classes, gardening instruction, and gym time. - The arts: Offers a variety of arts programming so that members can learn to express themselves through visual arts, applied arts and performing arts in a safe space. Painting, drawing, and bracelet making.

Promotes youth development by instilling a sense of accomplishment, competence, belonging, and usefulness. Programs: - Academic success: Goal is for every member to graduate on time with a plan for their future, whether that plan is post-secondary or a career. Homework help, tutoring, mentoring, chess club, computer classes, and career exploration. - Character and leadership: Offers programs designed to help members practice and strengthen leadership and problem-solving skills. Community service and support groups. - Healthy lifestyles: Programs help members learn how to engage in positive behaviors, set personal goals and grow into self-sufficient adults who can make healthy choices. Yoga, exercise classes, gardening instruction, and gym time. - The arts: Offers a variety of arts programming so that members can learn to express themselves through visual arts, applied arts and performing arts in a safe space. Painting, drawing, and bracelet making.

- Babysitting instruction - Ballet and jazz dance instruction - Baseball - Basketball - Chess club - Computer classes - Cooking classes - Day camps in band, show choir, etc. - Defensive driving course - Drawing instruction - Field trips - Firearms safety training - Gardening instruction - Gymnastics - Indoor home safety education - Karate - Lacrosse - Musical instrument instruction - New driver training - Painting classes - Quilting instruction - Sewing instruction - Soccer - Softball - Tae Kwon Do Korean karate - Tennis - Track and field - Yoga

Offers educational opportunities for adult and youth enrichment such as: - Babysitting - Computer classes - Cooking classes - CPR classes - Defensive driving and new driver education courses - Gardening interests - Home buyer seminars - Job interview training - Job search techniques - Quilting classes - Managing money courses - Spanish language classes - Swimming lessons - Yoga - Youth development programs

- After School Program provides homework help, academic enrichment, and recreational activities; snacks included - Summer Program provides field trips, academic enrichment, art and recreational activities, and community gardening; breakfast, lunch and snacks included

Promotes youth development by instilling a sense of accomplishment, competence, belonging, and usefulness. Programs: - Academic success: Goal is for every member to graduate on time with a plan for their future, whether that plan is post-secondary or a career. Homework help, tutoring, mentoring, chess club, computer classes, and career exploration. - Character and leadership: Offers programs designed to help members practice and strengthen leadership and problem-solving skills. Community service and support groups. - Healthy lifestyles: Programs help members learn how to engage in positive behaviors, set personal goals and grow into self-sufficient adults who can make healthy choices. Yoga, exercise classes, gardening instruction, and gym time. - The arts: Offers a variety of arts programming so that members can learn to express themselves through visual arts, applied arts and performing arts in a safe space. Painting, drawing, and bracelet making.

- Child care and extended day programs - Community Bridge: Recreational program for adults with developmental disabilities - English language learning - General interest courses for persons of all ages such as cooking courses, dance instruction, general arts and crafts, gardening, etc. - Tutoring - Youth enrichment, youth service program and youth leadership services

- ACT test preparation - Acting - Adapted sports/games - American Sign Language and German language instruction - Ballet - Basketball - Beadwork - Belly dancing - Bingo - Boxing - Bridge game - Chess - Computer classes - Cooking - Drawing - Exercise - Field trips - Figure skating - Gardening - General health education - Gymnastics - Homebuyer counseling - Jazz dancing - Karate - Mature driver training - Painting - Parenting skills classes - Sculpture - Self-defense - Sewing - Snowshoeing - Swimming lessons - T'ai Chi - Table tennis - Taekwondo - Volleyball - Writing - Yoga

Offers a variety of activities and programs for adults at sites throughout Minneapolis. Programs include: - Life and Learning - Hobbies and Skills - Arts and Entertainment - Health and Fitness - Youth and Family

Community Center programs include: - Basketball and lacrosse lessons - Birthday parties - Cheerleading lessons - Golf lessons and floor hockey lessons - Gymnasiums with equipment and indoor soccer - Gymnastics - Indoor walking track - Private music lessons - Racquetball/wallyball courts - Senior club offering activities for active older adults - Skate park - Softball - Swimming - Tennis - Weight room with exercise and free weight equipment Eidem Homestead Brooklyn Park Historical Farm: - Afternoon tea parties - American Girl parties - Farm Market - Gardening instruction - Gift-making - Movies on the Barn - Playground - Residential camps - Storytime - Summer concert series - Teddy Bear picnics - Tours - Traveling Trunk - Winter activities, and special events Zanewood Recreation Center programs include: - Indoor ice arenas - ice hockey instruction and clinics and ice skating instruction - Karate, safety awareness and self defense classes - Multi-purpose room, game room, art room and classrooms - Sculpture classes Parks include a variety of amenities unique to each park including trails, playground areas, picnic shelters, outdoor skating rinks, baseball/softball/soccer/football and t-ball fields

Promotes youth development by instilling a sense of accomplishment, competence, belonging, and usefulness. Programs: - Academic success: Goal is for every member to graduate on time with a plan for their future, whether that plan is post-secondary or a career. Homework help, tutoring, mentoring, chess club, computer classes, and career exploration. - Character and leadership: Offers programs designed to help members practice and strengthen leadership and problem-solving skills. Community service and support groups. - Healthy lifestyles: Programs help members learn how to engage in positive behaviors, set personal goals and grow into self-sufficient adults who can make healthy choices. Yoga, exercise classes, gardening instruction, and gym time. - The arts: Offers a variety of arts programming so that members can learn to express themselves through visual arts, applied arts and performing arts in a safe space. Painting, drawing, and bracelet making.

Community Center programs include: - Basketball and lacrosse lessons - Birthday parties - Cheerleading lessons - Golf lessons and floor hockey lessons - Gymnasiums with equipment and indoor soccer - Gymnastics - Indoor walking track - Private music lessons - Racquetball/wallyball courts - Senior club offering activities for active older adults - Skate park - Softball - Swimming - Tennis - Weight room with exercise and free weight equipment Eidem Homestead Brooklyn Park Historical Farm: - Afternoon tea parties - American Girl parties - Farm Market - Gardening instruction - Gift-making - Movies on the Barn - Playground - Residential camps - Storytime - Summer concert series - Teddy Bear picnics - Tours - Traveling Trunk - Winter activities, and special events Zanewood Recreation Center programs include: - Indoor ice arenas - ice hockey instruction and clinics and ice skating instruction - Karate, safety awareness and self defense classes - Multi-purpose room, game room, art room and classrooms - Sculpture classes Parks include a variety of amenities unique to each park including trails, playground areas, picnic shelters, outdoor skating rinks, baseball/softball/soccer/football and t-ball fields

- Archery club - Community resource program - Computer classes - Disabled adult program - Exercise classes - Gardening classes - New driver education - Parenting classes - Preschool programs - Spanish classes - Tennis lessons - Trips and tours

Provides support to the gardening community through: - Northern Gardener Magazine - Member discounts at garden centers and nurseries around the state - Educational classes taught by experts - Tours and events - Information on gardening resources - Lending library of horticultural and gardening books - Bookstore and gardening gift shop - Minnesota Green which provides donated plants and materials to community gardening projects

Provides plots, spring tilling, and various forms of gardening education and assistance, with 20 community gardens located throughout the city; educational 'vegetable of the year' program provides recipes and information. Offers: - Apple press rental - Garden tool library - Gardening book library - Plant and seed sales - Seed library (may be able to take seed donations) - Teaching kits - Workshops Volunteering opportunities available.

Provides educational classes and service learning opportunities for groups: Gardening Education Classes: throughout the growing season, garden interns provide youth groups and adults with fun, hands-on learning projects at Urban Roots gardens. Community groups learn organic growing techniques and help with planting, maintenance and harvesting. Cooking and Nutrition Education Classes: hands-on nutrition classes taught to students in St. Paul Public Schools and other educational partners. Youth and families are taught cooking at various community sites. Environmental Educations Classes: promotion of environmental awareness to elementary and middle school children. Farm Field Trips: Opportunities for groups to tour and visit a working vegetable farm in the City of Saint Paul.?? Storytime in the Garden: Weekly story time at the Children's Garden at Rivoli Bluff Farm & Restoration Site in partnership with Saint Paul Public Libraries. This activity is geared toward small children and families.