Haley Burns is the new garden manager for City Sprouts! She will be in the garden Wednesdays, and Friday and Saturday mornings throughout the season. If you need help or if you want to help, look for Haley!

What grows the best in your garden?
Kale! This year I harvested the kale that I planted last May until I was ready to till in March!

What are you most passionate about in regards to City Sprouts?
Bringing awareness to nutritious foods that everyone can afford.

What are your hobbies?
In my free time I try to perfect my vegan cooking/baking skills… but mostly baking. I like to find recipes heavy on milk and eggs and veganize them to taste the same.

Tell us about your family.
I’m an only child. My entire family is from and lives in Omaha, and we are really close to the extended family. My mom works at UPS and my dad is a construction/fix-it/craftsman guy. Because of this, I’ve never been in my house without some sort of project going on… one time my mom and I came home to my dad standing on the kitchen counter with a chainsaw and a massive new hole to the outside.

What is one thing that no one knows about you?
When I was a kid I would pull bark off of a tree in my backyard, but I always felt really bad about it, so I would talk to her and sing to her, making up songs to explain how sorry I was. I guess my neighbors probably know that already.

If you had to give up a favorite food, which would be the most difficult to give up?
Peanut butter

What is one food you’d never want to taste again?
Celery

If you won a lottery ticket and had a million dollars, what would you do with it?
I would travel the world and pay off my college loans.

You’ve been given access to a time machine.  Where and when would you travel to?
I’d like to travel the Silk Road

Which is the best vacation you’ve ever had?
When I was 7, my family took a two week road trip from Omaha to Denver to New Mexico to Arizona to LA to Las Vegas to Utah to Wyoming and back. It was awesome.

What is the one thing you want people to remember about you?
That I cared about the future

If you could go on a road trip with any person (dead or alive), who would you choose and where would you go?
I’d like to road trip with my best friend Emily to visit the 20 states I have left of the 50 states.

City Sprouts is proud to be participating in Omaha Gives! – a 24 hour charitable challenge organized by the Omaha Community Foundation. The online giving holiday will take place May 22nd from midnight to midnight. Mark your calendars because we will need your help! We will be joining nearly 300 local nonprofits to raise money together and compete for matching funds and prize money. The more money we raise, the larger percentage of the match pool we will receive. The more donors we get to give to us, the more likely we are to win prize money.

Omaha Gives! is a one day event led by the Omaha Community Foundation to raise as much money as possible for local nonprofits through online fundraising. It is a community-wide event to show off Omaha’s spirit of giving, raise awareness about local nonprofits, and celebrate the collective effort it takes to make this city great. Learn more at OMAHAGIVES24.ORG.

What is City Sprouts raising money for?

What’s happening at City Sprouts now that spring has finally arrived? Take a look!

We will have roughly 20 beds available this year, so join us from 10:00-12:00 to come pick out your bed. We are charging $20 to rent a bed for the season, $30 if you’re outside of Orchard Hill neighborhood.
If you can’t make it that day just get a hold of Roxanne at director@omahasprouts.org, or 402-216-9616.
We can’t wait to see what everyone has sprouting soon!

Join us in conjunction with the Nebraska Science Festival (nescifest.com) and get a head start on your garden. What makes seeds grow? What grows from seeds? How many different ways are there to plant seeds? We will answer these questions and more. Participants will have the chance to make seed tape, seed bombs and bean bags. Tour the gardens and then start several types of seeds that you can take home to grow in your garden.

Sunday, April 14th from 1:00 – 4:00pm

We will have roughly 20 beds available this year, so join us from 10:00-12:00 to come pick out your bed.  We are charging $20 to rent a bed for the season, $30 if you’re outside of Orchard Hill neighborhood.

If you can’t make it that day just get a hold of Roxanne at director@omahasprouts.org, or 402-216-9616.

We can’t wait to see what everyone has sprouting soon!

Potlucks continue tomorrow night!!!  Long time friend of the garden and current board member Meg is hosting this Welcome to Spring Potluck starting at 6:30!!  Hope to see everyone there!!

Board member Nate is hosting and we will have a guest from the North Omaha Tool Library (omahatools.org) to tell us all about who they are and what they have available. So come join the fun! We’ll see you at 6:30!!