Outdoor Fresh Farm is an educational/demonstration farm that teaches sustainable, eco-friendly methods of agriculture. Since their farm is located in a food desert, they provide the elders and sickly in the community with fresh produce straight from the garden. They also educate about different animal husbandry practices that work in harmony with nature as well. They grow a lot of seasonal crops year round and have different methods of regenerative farming, vertical gardening, companion planting, and the square foot gardening method just to name a few.

Tucked into Freedom Park, the Poncey-Highland Community Garden was established in 2008. It includes over 30 raised beds and almost 10 community beds, sown with a mix of berries and insectary plants. We hope to improve Freedom Park visually and botanically for our neighbors and community members!

Refarm Atlanta aims to make fresh local flowers accessible to our community and sustainable for our environment through sustainable agricultural practices and refound knowledge from growers before us.

Roots Down creates better landscapes in our communities that promote green job growth, ecological restoration, and community well-being. They're building a world where every person has access to fresh food and thriving ecosystems that feed our soils and people. Thank you for joining them and the movement to feed people while fighting climate change!

The goal of the Sustaining Attention to God's Earth (hereafter SAGE) Garden is to help Columbia Theological Seminary move toward becoming a more environmentally sustainable community.

Trellis Horticultural Therapy Alliance uses the power of plants and gardening to improve the quality of life for people living with physical, cognitive and mental health challenges. Those they serve include those in recovery from brain and spinal cord injury, stroke survivors, the incarcerated, and elders. The Ability Garden at Callanwolde is a fully wheelchair accessible garden and greenhouse that offers supported therapeutic gardening programs for adults and youth. The Ability Garden and its programs strive to provide horticultural activities with purpose while fostering independence, improving self-confidence and rebuilding social connections. Groups that depend on the Ability Garden include special education students from Atlanta’s Inman and David T. Howard middle schools, Emory Stroke Survivor’s Support Group, the Ruby D. Neeson Diabetes Foundation, and past patients from the Shepherd Center.

Threshold Community Program is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the social, emotional and educational growth of neurodivergent individuals and their families within a therapeutic learning environment. 

The Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture is committed to bringing good food, good health, and well-being to Atlanta’s urban community. Feeding people right where they live is their mission. Their guiding principles are to emulate nature in the production of food, to educate old and young to grow their own food and to create a welcoming space where people can gather and find harmony with the earth.

Unearthing Farm and Market is a nonprofit initiative working to provide equitable access to fresh, locally-grown produce in the Edgewood and Kirkwood neighborhoods.

They work in partnership with community members to center the needs of legacy residents, families with children, seniors, and other folks in the community with typically low access to fresh food.

Not only do they aim to provide affordable locally-grown produce through Unearthing Farm and Market, they partner with other local food entrepreneurs and businesses to cultivate an equitable hyper-local food system and provide opportunities for education for children and families around healthy food preparation.

Wild Combination Organic Farm is a small diversified vegetable and herb farm in Atlanta, Georgia devoted to a composite framework binding food autonomy, environmental regeneration, land stewardship and shared access to resources for healthy community. They want to reactivate dormant inner connectivity between human bodies, minds, and their place among plants, animals and earth, while reimagining work and labor as a collective, egoless fount of purpose and the thing of life itself. Founder Valentina got their start and love for farming as a full-time crew member at Aluma Farm and never looked back. They love smallness, depth, and balance, and a life lived outdoors!

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our Durham County School Garden Partners are currently The Lerner School, Glenn Elementary School, Eno Valley Elementary, C. E. Jordan High School Greenhouse & Garden, Bethesda Elementary School, Lyons Farm Elementary School, Oak Grove Elementary, R.N. Harris Elementary School, Sandy Ridge Elementary School, Hillandale Elementary School, Eastway Elementary School, Durham School of the Arts, W.G. Pearson Magnet Elementary School, E.K. Powe Elementary School, Hope Creek Gardens for Neurodiverse Students, Northern High School, Lucas Middle School, Carolina Friends School, and Holt Elementary School. When 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! 

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.