We connect the neighborhood to urban agriculture, build lasting relationships among neighbors and learn to grow our own food together. What makes us unique is that this is a FREE service for the community. About 100 community members grow organic food for their families every year. We teach and learn from each other, and offer free hands-on experience.
The outward problems would be things like food insecurity, degraded or absent green space, lack of biodiversity, and lack of community safety. But the inward problems are just as important. We battle isolation. We want to re-create the commons in a way that recognizes the profound need for people to be in the presence and company of others.
Our organization’s core values are empathy, inclusion, effective altruism, self-sufficiency and productive educational collaboration.
Our target population or beneficiary group is everyone in our community, but especially those that live within close distance to the garden. We strive to be hyper local.
Four main things make us unique:
- Intense neighborhood involvement and founder skill sets
- Our relationship to a vocational school
- The cultural diversity, strength and resilience of our members
- We work for free and keep access free