Homeless Garden Project Store 1338 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

"Dropped into their holiday store location near the Museum of Art and History. I was looking for gifts that were practical, tasteful and local. I found the perfect thing in their handmade bees wax candles. Other interesting items: jams and preserves, soaps, ornaments...etc. Glad I stopped in and the staff helped me with gift wrapping."

"I am from Cincinnati and was visiting my daughter in Santa Cruz recently. I happened upon the Homeless Garden Project store. What a geat place! It was very homey and welcoming. I will visit again."

"We love that thoughtful people have organized a program like this that is supportive in a positive way to the community! We have picked many of the wonderful garden grown treats at the garden location and now we have discovered the store. I love the clean and simple set up and lovely array of gift items and such. Everything has a very organic feel and supportive to the environment which I do appreciate! Thank you to all the people involved and keeping it going! May it inspire many more people in all the cities to create similar projects!"

"Love the HGP and would love to support it, but this is just a gift shop of stuff I'd never buy. Sorry :/ Maybe work with other places to offer something like gift cards that are less about owning more stuff and more about an experience (movie theaters, museum tours, years membership somewhere) or basic necessity (gift card for NewLeaf, a donation to food pantry that isn't grown in your garden, pads/tampons for the women's center)."

"I visited your gardens in August with the CIIS graduates in the Transformative Leadership program. I was very impressed. You fed us lunch and it was wonderful. Your concept and the resulting product is amazing. I live in Colorado, and I'm telling many people about it. The people, staff and volunteers were very kind and friendly. Thank you for the experience. Sorry it took me so long to write this."