Carol Burton

Carol Burton began volunteering for Urban Harvest 20 years ago and is now director of youth education. She currently oversees the garden and nutrition classes for 22 schools, impacting children aged 4–14 from all over greater Houston. Urban Harvest is a nonprofit organization with three programs: community gardens, farmers market, and youth education. Over the last 15 years Burton has greatly enlarged her job to include training garden educators and project managers who help develop edible gardens. Eighty percent of the schools with an edible garden are Title 1 schools where nearly 100 percent of the students are receiving free breakfast, lunch and now from the garden, dinner.