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Currently, we are a chapter of a Texas A&M campus organization called the association of social entrepreneurs.

Our goal is to alleviate community scale hunger, beautify the city, and help ensure individuals in the community get the proper nutrition they deserve that can only be found through fruits and veggies.  We have decided that the best way for us to meet these goals was through edible landscaping, the use of edible plants as opposed to ornamentals in a landscape, which is how Edible Aggieland was born.  Aggieland is the informal name for the cities of Bryan and College Station, the home of Texas A&M.

We work mainly with fruit trees right now, but want to incorporate other edible plants (including edible flowers in the mix) in order to create unique landscapes that are both aesthetically pleasing and edible, yet are able to provide an abundant supply of organic food for the people who need it.  That's why all our projects are done on land belonging to agencies related to hunger relief, or to non-profit organizations and government organizations (post offices and universities).  What isn't used by the people who own the land is harvested, part of it is donated, and part of it is sold to generate funds for the agency that owns the land as well as for our own agency so that we might continue our mission.

Currently, we are working with a low-income retirement center called LULAC Oak Hill, and all the residents absolutely love what we're doing.  We are looking to expand to new properties in the near future, and hopefully cover Aggieland in a community-wide landscape that ensures no mouth goes unfed.