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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Grow Dudas HQ

The Grow Dudas HQ urban farm is strategically located in a food desert and serves as a local growing facility and educational site for the community to gather and learn how to grow their own food. We just installed 10 fruit trees in our orchard area and currently have one 4x8 raised garden bed growing strawberries. They are expanding this year and have plans to grow more fruits, vegetables, herbs, and cut flowers.

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HealthMPowers

HealthMPowers, a non-profit in Atlanta, is on a mission to empower healthy habits and change environments where children live, learn and play. Over the past several years, they've partnered with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, engaging members in experiential learning through cooking classes and on-site gardening. They've implemented gardens at over a dozen clubs as a tool to better understand the importance of eating local, fresh produce. They have grown herbs, potatoes, tomatoes, green beans, strawberries, and more! Their partnership provides impactful programming to help members develop the skills to improve their social, emotional, and physical health so that they can achieve the Great Futures they deserve. 

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Historic Westside Gardens

The mission of the Historic Westside Gardens is to advance the wellness of the westside through home food gardens, wellness education, health advocacy, and economic empowerment.

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Jolly Avenue Garden

The Jolly Avenue Garden is a vibrant community gathering space that fosters a collective experience of beauty, belonging, and friendship with the land and with one another. Our mission is to enrich the Clarkston community by offering growing spaces where refugee gardeners can grow their own food to feed their families and friends and facilitating educational opportunities for folks of all ages through agriculture programming, mentorship, employment, and STEAM curriculum initiatives.

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Love is Love Farm at Gaia Gardens

Love is Love Farm at Gaia Gardens grows healthy food and seeks to sustain the success of farmers through collaboration. They work to achieve this mission through employment and mentorship of young farmers, their farmer collaborative CSA model, and servant leadership to good food and farm organizations.

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Lumenous Healing

Lumenous Healing is an urban farmlette in South East Atlanta that started on a vacant lot by two homeschooling mamas. These women are called to nourish their families, themselves, and their community. Lumenous Healing grows medicinal herbs, flowers, and heirloom veggies without pesticides or chemical fertilizers all on a tight budget. It's a happy place for children, pets, plants, and pollinators to grow and play. Sharing compost keeps them flourishing!

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Medlock Park Community Garden

Medlock Park Community Garden's mission is to provide a welcoming outdoor community space where the focus is on people, sustainable organic gardening, learning, teaching, and healthy food choices.

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Nurture ATL

Nurture ATL is a new urban community garden project that seeks to address critical issues of food insecurity, environmental sustainability, and community education in the vibrant city of Atlanta. Through the utilization of innovative urban farming techniques and community engagement strategies, they aim to establish a model urban farm that serves as a catalyst for positive change in the local community.

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Ohr Hatorah Garden

Congregation Ohr HaTorah is a modern orthodox synagogue located in Toco Hills in Atlanta. The OHT Garden, in memory of Maya Hazel Cohen, is a space for congregants and students to learn about the overlap between Judaism and environmental stewardship, and appreciation for the beauty in nature. The entire Ohr HaTorah team has created a lavish garden and enriching learning environment for their students. The synagouge offers after-school and Shabbat programming in their GrowTorah garden. Ohr HaTorah is the only synagogue Anafim partner of Grow Torah.

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Our Giving Garden

Our Giving Garden is a 501c3 nonprofit community farm and education space committed to interrupting poverty in the metro-Atlanta community through fresh produce donation, food access programs, and nature-based educational resources for children and adults. Located on three (3) acres in Mableton, Georgia their farm serves community members through partnerships with local food pantries and supports children and youth by providing a safe community space to learn and grow. Founded in 2016 by a group of friends as a community garden, their farm has grown to offer regular education and camp programming, and an educational animal program hosts a forest preschool onsite and as a WWOOF site for farm internships. As of 2022, they have donated over 8,000 pounds of fresh produce, and over 9,000 eggs, and they are just getting started!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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*