1. EdEn Vision
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Ezekiel 36: 35

2. Eden Vision Overview
Eden vision is a “Green” initiative through Save Our
Children. Eden vision provides opportunities for youth and
communities to develop a healthy physical, intellectual,
social, and spiritual foundation through agriculture.

3. Eden Vision Goals
• Bring people together
through community
gardening
• Establish a learning
environment for the
community
• Equip youth and community
members with a healthy
spiritual, educational, social
and physical foundation.
• Provide healthy food options
to the community

4. Eden Vision Gardens
Community “Love Gardens” – an area where community members come to
share ideas, information, concerns, and goods. EV “Love Gardens” are non-
threatening, non-prejudging environments where people can be accepted and
work together for a meaningful greater purpose.
Men of Eden Gardens – An outdoor classroom where young and older men
explore gardening, manhood, business, responsibility, stewardship and the life
and teachings of Jesus Christ. The goal is help develop leaders with a healthy
spiritual, intellectual, educational, and physical foundation.

5. Eden Vision Gardens Benefits
• Bring people together from different backgrounds (age, race, culture, social class) in a
non-threatening environment.
• Bring healthy local ORGANIC foods to food desert locations
• Prevent Crime (more eyes on the street and neighbor interaction)
• Teach origins of food, math skills, business principles, stewardship, environmental
issues, job skills and life lessons
• Add Beauty to communities and heighten awareness and appreciation for life
• Restore oxygen to the air and reduce pollution
• Many more benefits

6. Student Leaders of Eden Vision
Josh Smith Frank Whitfield Alejandro DeJesus
Bowling Green/LCCC LCCC Sophomore Bowling Green/LCCC
Biology Education Environmental Studies

7. Vision for LCCC
• To establish a relationship with Save Our Children-Eden Vision
to work together develop students academically through
service.
• Offer work-based learning or paid internships for students
going into fields that serve youth.
• Offer students credit for service learning with youth or
community development if it corresponds with courses.
• To engage student clubs in positive Lorain County activities.
– Offer native and international students opportunities to share foreign
traditions and ideas and heighten their social and cultural awareness of
the region.

8. What EV has Attained
• More than $500 worth of Vegetable, flower, and
Herb Plants
• Land – 2 sites, (together about ¼ acre)
• Leaf and Veggie Compost Sources
– Coffee Shops, LCCC Cafeteria, Caterers, etc.
• Manure Sources
• 3 shovels, 2 rakes,
• Watering sources and cans
• Support Networks – City Fresh Cleveland, George
Jones Farm, YWCA, citizens of Elyria

9. Eden Vision Sponsors & Supporters
• Alex Hyde – Hideaway Storage
• Becky Wendt
• City Fresh
• EBC Excavating
• George Jones Farm
• Grafton Correctional Facility
– Vocational Horticulture Program
• Holly Huff – Cascade Block Watch
• Posey Depot Floral & Gift Shoppe
• Rick Ternes
• Save Our Children
• Wacker & Associates
• YOU? Posey Depot Floral & Gift Shoppe donates
vegetables to Eden Vision

10. What We Need
• Pickup Truck
• Gas and food financial support
• 2 wheel barrels
• Straw Bales
• Large and small shovels
• Eden Vision T-shirts
• Webpage