(Sunday 6/15/2025) A Message from your San Mateo Neighborhood Inc.

 

The San Mateo Community Garden is well on its way to providing fresh vegetables for our neighborhood as well as providing an educational opportunity for students of San Mateo Elementary for the food path from seed to plant to harvest to table. 

 

Funding approval for the project came at a time when the planting calendar was not in line with high yield for harvest vegetables.  We do not expect to have an over-abundance of food for the summer as growing temperatures make production difficult at best.

 

At harvest, food will be made available to our neighbors.  Residents interested in participating in harvesting are required to be vetted through the Duval County Public Schools website and submitting a volunteer form indicating San Mateo Neighborhood, Inc. as their organization affiliation.  In times of abundant harvests, a drive-through date will be established and residents will gather at the bus lane at the school to obtain the harvest.

 

The San Mateo Neighborhood, Inc. has partnered with the San Mateo Elementary School to bring these gardens to fruition under the City of Jacksonville, Department of Neighborhoods, Matching Grant Program.  

 

The San Mateo Neighborhood has participated in this program since 2019 bringing over $50k in project completions/neighborhood improvements to our neighborhood.    

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