Garden of Eden Urban Farming
Who we are
About Garden of Eden Indoor Farming
Structural Concept and Key Relationships; People and Tasks
Team | Affiliations | Organization

Our Mission and Origin
Garden of Eden Indoor Farming's (GOE) mission is to help you or your nonprofit organization organize a gardening enterprise and provide the highest quality organic, nutritional, and flavorful herbs, greens, tomatoes and strawberries, on the best terms possible for consumers. Providing lower transportation time and costs, less spoilage and meeting market demand efficiently all year round, Garden of Eden-affiliated gardeners supply locally grown produce for small to medium-scale wholesale and retail and wholesalers and regional non-profit organizations.
In addition, we provide full time state-of-the-art indoor farming job training, offering a transformative skills development model for under-performing young adults, veterans, and unemployed, in cooperation with other nonprofit agencies. In cooperation with local non-profits, we take unskilled young adults and low-skilled workers and give them high tech, 100% green agriculture skills training required for 21st Century food production. This can create local jobs for local residents.
Our strategy is to train young people for adulthood, and to train adult workers for new careers ready to go to work. This year-round job creation process engages us in building the skills, attitudes, knowledge, and experiences that prepare them for both the present and the future.
GOE began as a senior project by Michael Twiggs at Tacoma Evergreen State College, morphed into a community garden co-sponsored by Maxine Mimms Academy (MMA) and civic groups in Seattle and Tacoma, WA, and finally into its current independent nonprofit format. We are currently working with nonprofits in central Puget Sound, with special emphasis on communities of color. We also work with commercial entities to develop nutritional, fresh, local food options.
In addition, we provide full time state-of-the-art indoor farming job training, offering a transformative skills development model for under-performing young adults, veterans, and unemployed, in cooperation with other nonprofit agencies. In cooperation with local non-profits, we take unskilled young adults and low-skilled workers and give them high tech, 100% green agriculture skills training required for 21st Century food production. This can create local jobs for local residents.
Our strategy is to train young people for adulthood, and to train adult workers for new careers ready to go to work. This year-round job creation process engages us in building the skills, attitudes, knowledge, and experiences that prepare them for both the present and the future.
GOE began as a senior project by Michael Twiggs at Tacoma Evergreen State College, morphed into a community garden co-sponsored by Maxine Mimms Academy (MMA) and civic groups in Seattle and Tacoma, WA, and finally into its current independent nonprofit format. We are currently working with nonprofits in central Puget Sound, with special emphasis on communities of color. We also work with commercial entities to develop nutritional, fresh, local food options.
Garden of Eden
Puget Sound, WA
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Management Team
Michael Twiggs
Founder, Senior gardening consultant

Michael Twiggs is a technology professional with both technical and management experience in the manufacturing, telecommunications, banking and education industries.
His passion is growing fresh fruits and vegetables indoors all year-round. He uses his knowledge of systems design and integration to develop new sustainable business models for food production.
His passion is growing fresh fruits and vegetables indoors all year-round. He uses his knowledge of systems design and integration to develop new sustainable business models for food production.
Rees Clark
Managing director, Systems consultant

Dr. Clark is a former urban planner and university professor, with academic degrees in geography, political science and government. Since 1980 he has worked full time in computing and data services management.
He oversees our web-based services and consults with our partners about cooperative online services and hydroponic project development, curriculum and finance.
He oversees our web-based services and consults with our partners about cooperative online services and hydroponic project development, curriculum and finance.
Technical Services Team
Kade Eckert
Adjunct project developer

Cecil Stewman
Adjunct gardening consultant

Cecil Stewman has a Masters in Teaching and over 37 years of teaching in Tacoma public schools. He has a trade and industry certification. He has academic and practical experience in K-12 instruction, sustainable development, project design and implementation. He has extensive experience with organic gardening and gardening systems.
Gavin Clark
Senior systems & networking consultant
Gavin Clark has over 30 years experience with database design and online data management. He has developed multiple web-based systems in the areas of recycling and social networking.

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Affiliations
The academy has been working with youth in Tacoma since 2004. Originally working with at-risk secondary schoolchildren to create a path to reengagement with education, the academy has branced into many additional fields of service.
LETI serves hispanic familiies with a variety of educational assistance programs and instruction in family finance, health and career development. Servimos a familias hispanas con programas en finanzas, salud, liderazgo y desarrollo profesional.
Clark Internet provides software and communication services for operations management, AKA ClusterFarms.net, which we also make available to client projects.
Evergarden Farms provides consultation and technical support for hydroponic gardeners.
Eduponics provides curricula, educational support and classroom configurations for training in hydroponic gardening.
Organization
"Garden of Eden Indoor Farming™" and "Evergarden Farms™" are trademarks of Garden of Eden Indoor Farming Inc., founded 2013. (We are not a registered 501(c)(3) and make no claims regarding taxation.)