Closing the Loop

Supporting local food systems.

With our Garden Partners program, members have the option to share their earned compost with local farms and gardens, who create equitable access to healthy food in our communities.
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Food Well Alliance

Food Well Alliance's mission is to strengthen community farms and gardens to create thriving communities that value local, healthy food. We do this by connecting people, ideas, leadership, and capital. Over the past three years, Food Well Alliance has directly supported 21 farms and roughly 100 community gardens located within Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett. One of the ways in which Food Well Alliance has supported community farms and gardens is by providing them with high quality, locally produced compost.

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Fresh Harvest Garden

Fresh Harvest provides a home delivery of local organic produce throughout Greater Atlanta. The Fresh Harvest Garden is a small diversified garden located in Clarkston, GA. The garden’s mission is to demonstrate sustainable growing practices, foster community, and engage local youth through horticultural therapy field trips. The produce is distributed weekly in Fresh Harvest baskets and sold at a subsidized market for Clarkston's refugee community.

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Fulton County Schools

Our Fulton County School Garden Partners currently include Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School - Elementary Campus and Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School - Middle Campus, Parkside Elementary Learning Garden, Westside Wondergarden at Westside Atlanta Charter SchoolBenteen Elementary School, Morningside Elementary School, and Cleveland Avenue Elementary School. When you share your earned compost with Fulton County Schools, these participating schools can request compost delivery to be used in their school gardens to grow healthy food and educate students about the importance of healthy soil! 

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Garden at Neighborhood Church

The Garden at Neighborhood Church in association with The Atlanta Ecumenical Urban Farm Network, works together to combat food insecurity by helping Metro Atlanta to Worship Well and Eat Well. They grow year-round, generally things like tomatoes, carrots, various greens, garlic, herbs, and onions. They use all natural methods and grow in raised beds.

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Georgia Organics Garden

Georgia Organics is a statewide nonprofit working to connect organic food from Georgia farms to Georgia families. The organization hosts a demonstration garden at its Atlanta offices where they utilize healthy soil and compost to grow seasonal vegetables and herbs. Harvests support a variety of potlucks, partner meetings and staff lunches throughout the year. 

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Gilliam's Community Garden
Gilliam's Community Garden's mission is to nourish communities across metro Atlanta with fresh, healthy, locally-grown food that is accessible and affordable for all.
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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Global Growers Network

Global Growers Network partners with people from diverse cultures who grow fresh food for their families and for local marketplaces. Together, they build and sustain networks of people, land, resources, and markets in order to create a more equitable food system that is driven by cultural diversity, inclusive economies, and regenerative agriculture practices.

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Good Samaritan Health Center Farm

The Good Samaritan Urban Farm is a 1-acre Certified Naturally Grown farm located on the property of The Good Samaritan Health Center in Atlanta's Bankhead neighborhood. The Farm serves to be an innovative healthcare initiative providing locally-grown, fresh produce to patients & community members within The Good Samaritan Health Center. The Farm hosts a daily farm stand to help create access to the patients and community who are on-site for appointments or visiting the campus, who may not otherwise have easy access to affordable, fresh produce.

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Grant Park Community Garden

Seven years ago in SE Atlanta, community members transformed a steep hillside of kudzu and trash into Grant Park Community Garden. Ever since, their members have been growing vegetables for themselves and for others. In support of the Plant a Row for the Hungry Program, half of their cultivated land is reserved for growing organic food to donate to soup kitchens and feeding programs in their community. Last year, they donated 365 pounds of food - a pound a day! They love the personal connection they feel toward each other, their community, the food they grow and the people they donate it to. They cultivate a big assortment of vegetables, blueberry bushes and honey bees. Along with great food, they are about connecting their community with a happy green space and demonstrating the joys of healthy growing practices.   

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Greener Roots Kirkwood Urban Farm

The aim of Greener Roots is to nourish healthy communities by helping to grow innovative local food systems.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Civic Garden Center

Civic Garden Center works with neighborhood residents to create community gardens, providing training and technical support for growing fruits and vegetables to create sustainable projects for the entire Greater Cincinnati region. They try to grow using only organic practices and materials. Each community garden grows various fruit and vegetables ranging from eggplant to corn and everything in between. 

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Garden of Joy Culinary Academy

The Garden of Joy Culinary Academy was founded by former and current educators who witnessed far too many students succumb to gun violence. This tragic reality inspired them to create a safe space where young people could feel empowered, find purpose, and gain life-changing skills. Located in Cincinnati, the academy provides teenagers and young adults with opportunities to learn culinary arts, develop essential life skills, and receive mentorship in a garden-to-table environment. By combining culinary education with hands-on gardening, they aim to reduce violence, address food insecurity, and foster resilience and self-sufficiency in our community.
Their mission is to empower young people to build brighter futures through education, mentorship, and meaningful, sustainable connections to food and community.

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Sidestreams Foundation's Peace Garden

Sidestreams Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit with the mission of building gardens and creating locally grown fresh food projects. Sidestreams works throughout Cincinnati to not only increase fresh food access, but also empower others with tools and knowledge of how to grow their own food.

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Taft Garden

Taft Garden is a diverse group of passionate Walnut Hills residents growing healthy food, restoring urban soil, beautifying green spaces, and building community. They believe everyone deserves convenient access to fresh and affordable local produce.

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Duke Campus Farm

The Duke Campus Farm is a one-acre, working farm that provides sustainably grown produce and food systems education for Duke and its surrounding communities. In collaboration with their undergraduate and graduate student farm crew, academic courses and research, they grow and harvest for Duke’s food purveyors and their Community Supported Agriculture program. More important than the thousands of pounds of food they grow, however, are the opportunities the farm provides for engaging and reimagining the ways we cultivate, access, value, and think about food.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Durham County Schools

Our Durham County School Garden Partners are currently The Lerner School, Glenn Elementary SchoolEno Valley Elementary, C. E. Jordan High School Greenhouse & Garden, Bethesda Elementary School, Lyons Farm Elementary School, Oak Grove Elementary, R.N. Harris Elementary SchoolSandy Ridge Elementary SchoolHillandale Elementary School, Eastway Elementary School, Durham School of the ArtsW.G. Pearson Magnet Elementary School, E.K. Powe Elementary School, Hope Creek Gardens for Neurodiverse StudentsNorthern High School, Lucas Middle School, Carolina Friends School, and Holt Elementary SchoolWhen you share your earned compost with Durham County Schools, the participating schools can request compost delivery to be used in their school gardens to grow healthy food and educate students about the importance of healthy soil! 

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Eastgate Community Garden
Eastgate Community Garden seeks to promote a healthier Raleigh through community gardening. They intend to grow and distribute sustainable produce in under-utilized neighborhood green spaces and foster community involvement through positive social interaction between neighbors.
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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Eno River Garden

Eno River Garden on Rivermont uses sustainable, regenerative farming practices to grow delicious food and sustain diverse wildlife on 1 acre near the Eno River. They prioritize native plantings to sustain bee, bird and butterfly populations. They also teach permaculture and no-dig gardening methods, provide garden consultation, and share food and flowers with neighbors and CSA members.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Epworth UMC Pollinator Garden

The Epworth UMC Pollinator Garden provides habitat, beauty, and opportunities for hands-on service as part of our commitment to caring for God's creation.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Farm Church
Farm Church is a church that meets on a farm and leverage all of the resources of that farm to address food insecurity in our community. They believe that everyone, regardless of circumstance, should have access to healthy, organically grown food. They're currently farming a vacant lot on the corner of Watts and Green Streets in Durham - a site in need of some serious soil amending. Your compost helps
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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Feed Durham Mutual Aid Project

Feed Durham is a mutual aid collective and community love project based in Durham, NC. This year they are disrupting root causes of hunger, and distributing their organizing blueprints to sustain hundreds of thousands of people across the South. They're distributing groceries to folks, installing raised garden beds for families, developing a food demo and plant medicine web series, hosting outdoor photo shoots for unhoused folks that will allow them to walk away with framed or laminated photos of themselves/their families, and working with community to connect their neighbors with essential resources.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Food Bank CENC Community and Demonstration Garden

Food Bank CENC Community and Demonstration Garden's mission is to nourish people, build solutions, and empower communities.

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Food For Thought

Food For Thought Food is a new exhibit garden that highlights how to grow fruits and veggies in a sustainable way that works with native habitats to support the community and pollinators and other native wildlife.

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Fresh Harvest Garden

Fresh Harvest Garden is committed to improving community engagement, investing in the community and the health of residents, sidewalks, better parks, and traffic safety. Fresh Harvest Garden develops partnerships with city and county government, including law enforcement, and engages in community outreach for youth and adults through community events and educational opportunities. Additionally, they network with the community to leverage community service and resources such as home repairs and housing for fixed and low-income families and sustain a community garden for residents to be able to eat healthy organic fruits and vegetables.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*