A Bit of Hope

A Bit of Hope A Bit of Hope, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit facility providing outdoor recreational activities for special needs individuals.

A Bit of Hope opened its doors in the Spring of 2012 to provide recreational horseback riding and recreational activities to mentally, physically, and emotionally disabled individuals.

Grant Awarded!! Thank you BlueScope Foundation for being a major contributor to each one of our garden spaces throughout...
12/13/2025

Grant Awarded!! Thank you BlueScope Foundation for being a major contributor to each one of our garden spaces throughout the years! With these funds, we were able to expand the original “The Great Futures Garden!” garden design at the Boys and Girls Club of Crittenden County by adding additional raised beds & purchasing fruit crops such as strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberry bushes! A complete drip irrigation system was also installed to the entire garden.

We are excited to continue sharing our “Seed the Need” programming curriculum with youth! We 💚 teaching youth about the importance of fresh food, sustainable agriculture, and how a seed may become supper.

Through this project, we were also able to host a two-day teacher professional development on how to integrate agriculture into the classroom to enhance student learning through hands-on activities & how to grow a school garden system from the ground up by establishing a garden landscape design, building a raised bed, and installing drip irrigation.

We really appreciate Dwayne H. supporting our local gardening efforts! We also really appreciate all of our volunteers & Cub Scout Pack 172 for helping us get this project installed. Thanks again to The Yard Guy LLC for being a local business to purchase mulch!

We are so excited to announce that we are partnering with Boys and Girls Club of Crittenden County by turning a blank sp...
06/14/2025

We are so excited to announce that we are partnering with Boys and Girls Club of Crittenden County by turning a blank space into a garden space! We won a Grassroots Grant from KidsGardening.org and ScottsMiracle-Gro to help make this vision come to life!

Introducing “The Great Futures Garden!”
With this support from Kids Gardening and several other donors, we were able to install 20 raised beds from Olle Gardens Olle Gardens Shop, a complete drip irrigation setup from Drip Depot, a donated indoor greenhouse, donated compost from Dr. Gabriel Gillette, seeds from The Herman’s Garden Program: Spreading the Joy of Gardening grant Seed Savers Exchange (thanks, Whitney!!),
and purchase vegetable/fruit/flower seeds and plants from Hoss, True Leaf Market, Willis Orchard Company, and Scenic Hill Farm Nursery.

We are excited to expand our gardens throughout the county, share our “Seed the Need” curriculum with youth, and expand program offerings at B&G Club!

Special thanks to Marion Cub Scouts Pack 172 Bear Den for helping us start our crops from seed!

Shoutout to Mallory, Roy, and Reagan for the many hours spent assembling, measuring, mulching, and planting over the past few weeks!

Thanks to The Yard Guy LLC for being a local business to purchase mulch!

Monday was a fun day in the garden at JWES! Our garden is planted and now we must wait patiently for our plants to grow....
06/25/2024

Monday was a fun day in the garden at JWES! Our garden is planted and now we must wait patiently for our plants to grow. Since gardening includes so many elements, we enjoyed water games, soil crafts and kitchen treats! First we prepared grapes by rolling them in lime juice and then in strawberry or peach jello then we put them in the freezer! They were so tangy sweet and cold when we ate them at the end of the day! After that, we played fill the bucket to see which team could fill their bucket first with water! Following that, we made our grass head people and we planted sunflower seeds and zinnias for the students to take home and watch them grow! After a fun time in the water sprinkler, it was time to finish our day! Much thanks to Officer Borjon for bringing the two young men to help connect the drip irrigation system that was so generously donated to our garden!

JWES garden club has met every Friday during school break. During that time the students have amended the soil in the ra...
06/22/2024

JWES garden club has met every Friday during school break. During that time the students have amended the soil in the raised beds, planted tomato and a variety of pepper plants, Jackson-Wonder Lima beans, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini squash, okra (red, orange, and green), sweet potato slips, cucamelons, and edamame! The students have also been busy in the memorial garden planting summer flower bulbs and seeds. The beautiful flowers will encourage pollinators to visit out vegetable garden. This year we opened up the third garden space bed and planted four varieties of pumpkins! The students have had a fun time learning about corms, bulbs, slips, tubers and all the seeds!

🥬 Lettuce, carrots, green peas, turnips, radishes, and beets 🥕 are in the soil waiting on tonight’s 🌧️!
03/17/2023

🥬 Lettuce, carrots, green peas, turnips, radishes, and beets 🥕 are in the soil waiting on tonight’s 🌧️!

The construction phase continued at JWES today as the soil and mulch filled the beds and walkway!! The students are so e...
03/16/2023

The construction phase continued at JWES today as the soil and mulch filled the beds and walkway!! The students are so excited to see their garden come to life! The staff is just a little excited too! Lots of “garden” talk today!

Mr. Stokes class helped to move the beds, put down w**d cloth, and then replace the beds! Many hands make light work!
03/12/2023

Mr. Stokes class helped to move the beds, put down w**d cloth, and then replace the beds! Many hands make light work!

Mrs. Cooper's third grade class transported the beds to the garden space for construction!
03/12/2023

Mrs. Cooper's third grade class transported the beds to the garden space for construction!

In addition to making seed tapes for the cool weather crops, Mrs. Williams students also created their own garden design...
03/12/2023

In addition to making seed tapes for the cool weather crops, Mrs. Williams students also created their own garden design with their favorite fruits and veggies!

A Bit of Hope is excited to partner with JWES Elementary School in creating a school vegetable garden in the courtyard a...
03/12/2023

A Bit of Hope is excited to partner with JWES Elementary School in creating a school vegetable garden in the courtyard area of the school! Thanks, in part to a grant from Blue Scope, we will soon be planting our first cool weather crops for the student to enjoy! Mrs. Williams second grade class got an early start by making seed tapes of carrots, lettuces, and turnips to be planted as soon as the beds are ready.

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