The Northwest Louisiana Master Gardeners are proud to announce their 2025 – 2026 Community Grants recipients. NWLA Master Gardeners award grants to organizations and municipalities that support beautification and horticultural education. Of particular interest are projects that make a difference in the community, are sustainable, and involve collaboration among local organizations.
This year the NWLA Master Gardeners awarded a total of $19,186 through their Community Grants program to the following groups:
Bossier Parish School for Technology and Innovative Learning – $2000. BPSTIL will use this grant to add raised beds, trellises, and drip irrigation to their successful school learning garden.
Fairfield Elementary Magnet School – $5994. Fairfield Magnet will use this grant to establish a teaching garden and food forest benefitting the school and surrounding community.
Friends of Coates Bluff Nature Trail – $1810. This grant will be used to purchase native plants to be interspersed along the trails of the 65-acre property, enhancing its beauty and providing educational opportunities for its users.
Greenwood Acres Baptist Church – $4100. The already thriving community garden at Greenwood Acres will add raised beds, soil, and seeds to broaden their impact of providing food to senior citizens and the underserved.
Northwest Louisiana Technical Community College – $1348. NLTCC will use this grant to transform the flagpole area of their Shreveport campus with new plants, soil, and decorative rock borders.
Oakwood Home For Women – $1890. Oakwood’s project “From Garden to Table: Growth Through Recovery” will add raised beds, soil, and plants to reestablish and expand their community and therapeutic garden.
Summerfield Elementary School – $2044. This grant will fund a cafeteria and learning garden to provide hands-on horticulture experience to students and supplement fresh foods offered in the cafeteria.
The mission of the NWLA Master Gardeners is to educate the public about gardening and engage the community in horticultural pursuits. Since 2010, the Community Grants program has allowed the NWLA Master Gardeners to multiply their efforts by aiding and funding projects envisioned, implemented and maintained by other groups. To date, they have donated almost $200,000 to the gardening community.
For more information about the Community Grants Program or each individual grantee, please email the NWLA Master Gardeners at [email protected].