by Jack Delperdang, reporter
OMAHA – The City Sprouts non-profit organization helps cultivate healthy communities and sustainable, equitable food systems through gardening, education and youth development. But recently, the pandemic hit them and it has had an impact on how they go about things. Communications director, Addie Gengenbach, explains.
“We have switched the majority of our programs, either we have paused them or we have done them socially distanced, or most of them have gone virtual,” Gengenbach said.
City Sprouts also had to transfer all of their growing gardeners workshops online to either Zoom calls or Facebook lives.
The growing gardeners workshop series is a collaboration between City Sprouts and The Big Garden. Their purpose is to offer four seasons of hands-on workshops that feature skills and techniques for every gardener and urban farmer.
“Most of the topics are around urban gardening, farming, food preservation and then we kind of do general lifestyle,” Gengenbach said.
City Sprouts has been around since 1995, and is currently the oldest community garden in the city of Omaha. Organizations around that long are sure to have experienced at least some change. Executive director Katie Kresha said that is no different for them.
“So, we have done a lot of things like put in place some new policies, put together more HR style support to try to help support employees as the organization continues to grow,” Kresha said.
