Promise of Peace Gardens

Sunshine Acres is a 14 acre youth and community farm located in Mineola, Texas that the Promise of Peace, P.O.P.). Gardens non profit established in January of 2025. We are now growing and educating over 300 students with powerful learning on a weekly basis. Our award winning Soup It Forward food sharing program also educates families with nutritious and delicious recipes while encouraging families to cook and eat together.  Over 100 soup kits have been shared this year. A lovely fruit orchard and arbor serves as a gathering place for families and local organizations to visit and to enjoy farm to table delights. Three acres of growing space provides nutritious dense crops for the the schools, community and guest from across Texas.  Sunshine Acres Youth and Community farm is a resource for all to visit, to connect and to learn. 

The impact of Promise of Peace is broad and deep as our youth interns, and volunteers work side by side on the farm to learn, grow, and share the chemical free, nutrient dense food that is ready to harvest. Our Soup it Forward food sharing program has impacted over 100 families from all backgrounds with new ideas and resources for meals that keep our families strong. The P.O.P. families are experiencing more school success as they have exhibited significant improvement in focus, school attendance, communication skills, and positive behavior. At a previous P.O.P. farm in Dallas, 34 youth interns that were first generation high school graduates, went on to attend prestigious universities across the country. The impact is amazing as its changing the way tour families eat and how they think about food. Our youth and their families become co creators for the solutions to the problems that they face living in a food dessert and living below the poverty line.
Promise of Peace is fostering collaboration between communities and schools to increase food security and to build farm to school programs that provide sustainable solutions 
to the current needs of all thus creating a better and more healthy world.

Our Needs

Promise of Peace Gardens is raising funds to build a sustainable and productive greenhouse that will accommodate more students and expand our growing seasons. We also need funds support our irrigation system and materials and methods of getting the food to the school cafeteria.

Please contact Elizabeth Dry at 214240 9220 if you'd like to help us change the world !

Testimonials

"Promise of Peace grows food that is nutritious and delicious. I tasted cauliflower three ways in the school cafeteria I had never tasted cauliflower and now I bring it for a snack. My brain lasts longer at school" - Jeremy , Age 14

"When I work in the garden after school I think of my mom cooking with the cilantro that we grow. I feel peaceful." - Brandon, Age- 12

"I want my food to come from the farm because it's more nutritious and not super processed. I want to feel more energized."  Tierany - Age 17

"I didn't think that I liked vegetables until I grew them. And then I met edible flowers - I can't stop eating them!" - Will, age 14

"When I'm with my friends on the farm and we have our hands in the soil learning new things - we make positive memories and take new recipes home with fresh ingredients." - Aide, Age 16