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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Outdoor Fresh Farm

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.

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Poncey-Highland Community Garden

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!

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Refarm Atlanta

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.

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Roots Down

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!

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SAGE at Columbia Seminary

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.

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The Ability Garden at Callanwolde / Trellis

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.

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Threshold Community Program School Garden

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. 

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Truly Living Well

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.

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Unearthing Farm

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.

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Wild Combination Organic Farm

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!

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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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Garner Grows Community Farm Garden

Garner Grows Community Farm Garden is located in the heart of Garner, NC on a 17 acre parcel right on Highway 70. Within the fenced 1 acre garden, they have vegetables, berries, chickens, bees, flowers, and some fruit trees. They have partnered with various school and community groups, such as The Governor Morehead School for the Blind Preschool, NC State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The Raleigh Jaycees, and The Institute for Future Ag. Leaders (IFAL), and the Garner UMC. Their membership is open to anyone in the community who would like to join them in their gardening and learning adventure! Gathering every Saturday morning at 550 Thompson Road Garner, NC 27529

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Good Hope Farm
The mission of Good Hope Farm is to marry Cary's agricultural past with an innovative future by connecting beginning farmers to affordable farmland and the community to local food.
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Governor Morehead School Community Garden

The mission of the GMS Community Garden is to provide an outdoor classroom that is accessible to all of their students regardless of loss of vision, cognitive impairment or physical limitations, a demonstration site that will serve as an example of how to engage all students in the practice of gardening.

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Gracious Harvest Community Garden

Gracious Harvest Community Garden is a "giving" community garden in the heart of downtown Cary, co-sponsored by First United Methodist Church and our downtown neighbors. Gracious Harvest is a place to cultivate the soil, the spirit, God’s bounty, and the community where friends and family join hearts and hands together to feed the body and soul. The "first fruits" of each harvest (10% or more) are set aside for the needy, members working that day get to share the rest.

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Healing Transitions

Healing Transition's mission is to offer innovative peer-based, recovery-oriented services to homeless, uninsured, and underserved individuals with alcoholism and other drug addictions. Their program is specifically designed to rekindle a person’s desire and ability to return to a meaningful and productive life.

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Holy Infant Food and Justice Garden

The Food Justice Garden Ministry provides fresh, organically grown vegetables to organizations and churches that assist the needy with food, such as Catholic Charities, Parkwood PTA Pantry,  Feed My Sheep and End Hunger Durham. Volunteers from the parish and local community plant vegetables and flowers, weed, water, harvest and construct new raised beds for planting. A limited number of beds are available for parish families to grow fresh vegetables for their own tables. Volunteering in the garden, typically on Saturday mornings, is a great way to build community relationships and teach your children how to grow vegetables. 

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Hope Gardens

Hope Gardens creates a community space that fosters relationships, educates the community, and addresses barriers to food access through shared efforts in sustainable agriculture. Hope Gardens functions as a bridge between the student community at UNC-Chapel Hill and the larger Chapel Hill community. It is a student-run non-profit that creates a space for students and the community of Chapel Hill to learn about and grow their own food side-by-side. Additionally, all of the produce grown by students through Hope Gardens is donated through UNC's Food Recovery Network chapter, another non-profit student organization that distributes food donations to local shelters and food pantries so that produce gets to people in need.

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Infinity Hundred Farms
Infinity Hundred Farms, located in Raleigh, is one of the largest urban farms in the United States. They exist for the Raleigh community, including individuals, families, restaurants, and businesses, to provide a reliable source of local produce that is beyond organic (beyond organic: produce that is grown without any herbicides or pesticides; even certified organic produce sometimes is grown with these additives, but theirs never is). 

They have seven locations spanning over 30 acres in the downtown Raleigh area. Across all of their locations, they rely on a diversity of growing systems and a combination of permaculture, biodynamic, and ancient farming techniques to grow hundreds of crop varieties. They are your local regenerative farm whose mission is to improve health. Not only the health of our soil and the produce that grows on it, but more importantly, the overall health and well-being of the Raleigh community. They are able to accomplish this mission by offering Raleigh individuals, families, restaurants and businesses a responsible, local source for their produce while also educating the community about food and advocating for sustainability.    
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Inter-Faith Food Shuttle

The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle partners with communities to grow Community Gardens and promote healthy lifestyles. Through innovative initiatives and partnerships, we provide community members with education and tools necessary to improve community health and nutrition. Community members are empowered to take back control of their food choices and lead healthier lives through increased access to fresh produce, nutrition and culinary education, and opportunities for leadership development, community building, and physical activity.

Compost is vital to our efforts; in fact, we require more than 40,000 pounds of it each year. Help us build community health, wealth, and security by sharing your earned compost; every bit counts!

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Joslin Garden

The Joslin Garden provides a place where environmental awareness and conservation can be nurtured through education and the joy of a deep connection with the natural world.

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