Deciding the future of food together
The Big Green Table is a community where growers and donors become partners at the same table and decide how to build a better food future for all.
How it works
Take a seat at any gift size.
Give straight to the growers doing the work that matters most to you and follow your dollar from Big Green to a community, an organization, an outcome. At the table, every dollar has a ripple.
- Step 1
Donate Any Amount
Your contribution, whether it’s $1, $10, $25, $50 or more, unlocks your seat to vote in a grant round and make a meaningful impact on the future of food.
- Step 2
Vote Where it Grows
Donors join growers to evaluate real projects and award grant dollars across four different outcomes — Hunger, Health, Habitat, Humanity.
- Step 3
Follow Your Dollar
Once results are in, we'll report back on exactly where your dollar landed and the impact it creates within communities across the country.
Granting & voting by pillar
Vote across impact pillars.
Food is the lever, and growing it changes everything. One plot of ground can feed a family, lower a neighbor's blood pressure, cool a block that used to bake all summer, and turn strangers into community. Four outcomes, one table — choose the one that matters most to you. *Voting is always optional.
- Hunger
Food on the table
Back the working parent doing the math for tomorrow night's dinner and the fresh produce that makes it possible.
- Pay-what-you-can / pick-and-pay produce stands
- CSA (community-supported agriculture) shares
- Mobile food pantries / pop-up distributions
- Gleaning programs (rescuing surplus produce from farms)
- Farmers markets accepting SNAP/EBT with matching dollars
- Backpack/weekend meal programs for food-insecure kids
- Community fridges
- Co-ops
- Emergency grocery delivery for homebound neighbors
- Health
Food as medicine
Help people treat food as their first and most important medicine — from nutrition to a longer, healthier life.
- Cooking classes / culinary literacy workshops
- Nutrition education programs
- “Food as medicine” produce prescription programs (doctor referrals to gardens)
- Community health screenings paired with garden visits
- Mental health & horticultural therapy programs
- Diabetes/chronic illness prevention cohorts
- School garden-to-cafeteria pipelines
- Family cooking nights
- Fitness/movement programming tied to garden work
- Habitat
Ground worth growing in
Put resources in the soil itself: the pollinators, the shade of one more fruit tree, a block that used to bake all summer.
- Tree planting / urban canopy restoration
- Composting programs (community or school-based)
- Native plant and pollinator gardens
- Vacant lot reclamation projects
- Rain garden / stormwater management installs
- Soil remediation
- Seed saving and seed libraries
- Environmental education field trips
- Grow-bag installations in dense urban areas
- Humanity
Strangers into neighbors
Grow the garden that turns a street of strangers into neighbors who know each other's names.
- Community potlucks and harvest festivals
- Intergenerational gardening programs (elders + youth)
- Reentry and workforce training gardens
- Cultural heritage growing programs (ancestral crops, foodways)
- Youth mentorship and leadership cohorts
- Refugee/immigrant garden plots for cultural connection
- Volunteer workdays
- Storytelling and oral history projects tied to land
- Peer-support circles hosted in garden spaces
A better food system starts at the same table.
Rooted in community. Open to everyone.
This season, a generous friend matches every new gift — dollar for dollar.
