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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The Reality Farm

The Reality Farm is a community farm project that fosters meaningful, creative and productive work for adults with disabilities.

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Trees For The Triangle

Trees For The Triangle's mission is to improve the aesthetic, economic, and ecological health or the Triangle area through the planting of trees. They focus on planting native trees in Wake, Durham, and Orange counties in North Carolina.

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UCAN Catawba Trail Farm

Urban Community AgriNomics' (UCAN) Catawba Trail Farm's mission is to reduce food insecurity, reduce and reverse preventable health issues, increase academic success, and increase exposure to career opportunities in the field of agriculture. UCAN focus is to improve the health and wellbeing of our community by providing education and trainings on healthy lifestyles, seed-to-table food preparation and preservation, hands on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) and organic agriculture. They empower families and individuals with access to resources to grow their own healthy food using sustainable practices, in a supportive environment. They thrive to create an environment where individuals can learn to grow their own food, enjoy the healing effects of access to open green spaces, explore the history of the land, and recognize all who have labored on it through the years. Their work is manifested through a lens of diversity, inclusion, environmental and social justice, and the belief that each of us plays a role in abating and reducing climate change. Healthy People Need a Healthy Earth!

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Urban Ministries of Wake County Garden

The Urban Ministries of Wake County Garden's mission is to produce as much food as possible for the Urban Ministries Food Pantry. 

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Wake County Schools

Our Wake County School Garden Partners currently include Northwoods Elementary School, The Franciscan School, Abbott's Creek Elementary, Green Magnet Elementary School, Kingswood Montessori STEM Magnet Elementary School, Stough Elementary Pollinator & Learning GardenThe Montessori School of RaleighNorth Chatham Elementary School Garden, Joyner Magnet Elementary Schooland the Chapel Hill Day Care Center When you share your earned compost with Wake 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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Well Fed Community Garden

The Well Fed Community Garden is dedicated to reconnecting folks to the source of their nourishment: plants, chickens & bees, soil, air, water, and friendship. The Well Fed Garden is one example of urban agriculture – 20% of their bounty is provided to their volunteers and neighbors and the remaining 80% is sold to local restaurants and farmers markets. This 1.5-acre plot grows delicious seasonal vegetables, fruits & berries, herbs, mushrooms, and flowers all using organic, no-till methods.

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Wolfberry Hawthorn Farm

Wolfberry Hawthorn Farm is a Certified Naturally Grown farm which strives to sustainably grow produce for the local community without the use of any chemical pesticides or animal by-products. They also promote the creation of wildlife habitat with our garden consultations, and promotion of native plants. They push the boundaries of what is grown for food in central NC and are always experimenting with produce not normally grown here.

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