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.

SEEDS is nonprofit organization with a 2-acre urban garden and cooking classroom that aspires to develop the capacity of young people through growing, cooking, and sharing food. Founded in 1994 and located in the heart of Durham, SEEDS promotes principles of sustainable agriculture, organic gardening, food security and environmental stewardship through garden-based programs.

The Saint Phocas Garden at Saint Titus Episcopal Church is a partnership with Saint Luke's Episcopal Church for their Good News Garden Program. Their mission is to nurture the earth through good gardening practices; sharing good food from the garden with those in need, and working together toward that Kingdom of God that Jesus so lovingly describes. Through prayer, they reach inside themselves, and through action, they reach out to others in the faith so they can attempt to form a more inclusive and loving community.

The mission of the Samuel Green Sr. Community Garden and the Merrick Moore Community Development Corporation, aka MMCDC, in its diverse community, exists for charitable and educational purposes, to improve the overall quality of life of the poor, underprivileged, and disenfranchised, by strengthening the bonds amongst their residents which include but not limited to providing a forum for the sharing of information, promoting activities/events, fulfilling the community needs and through enhancing the homeowner’s property values. The core values of their organization are community, activism, teamwork, loyalty, respect, and trust.

The Samuel Green Sr. Community Garden will provide a space to address food insecurity and foster a sense of community in the Merrick-Moore Neighborhood. 

The San Isidro Labrador Community Garden is run by members of St.Thomas More Catholic Church in Chapel Hill. The garden is intended as both a source of fresh produce for gardeners and parishioners in need and as a demo of what can be produced in a relatively small space using all organic methods. We want to cooperate with nature and each other to create good soil, to generate good food, and to steward the earth.

Simple Gifts Community Garden's mission is to help return to the simple and joyful life which God intended for us. They seek to accomplish this by using the gifts of land, time, talent and resources available to them to produce fresh, organic fruits and vegetables while also building lasting friendships and cooperation within their community. They will also share the knowledge of sustainable organic gardening practices, creation care and planting for pollinators with each other and those in need within their community.

South Estes Community Garden is located in the South Estes/Ridgefield area of Chapel Hill. The garden's mission is to enhance community, promote community engagement, share information about sustainable food production, and provide general education about health and nutrition. Primarily operated by public housing residents and community volunteers, the garden is a great tool to build inclusive community and share knowledge across cultural boundaries.

The proposed St Mark AMEZ Garden is in the heart of the historic Hayti District at 531 Roxboro Road (which is on the corner of South Roxboro Street and the Durham Freeway). Before the early 1980s the area was populated by small homes where almost everyone had a garden. This was a time and era when sharing fruits and vegetables from your garden was the neighborly thing to do. Then a thruway was built through the heart of the predominantly Black community. Now the area has a bludgeoning urban community with all the trappings of an urban environment. This had a monumental environmental and ecological effect that changed the natural balance of nature in food production. This area is basically devoid of flowers and vegetables and the pollination process to support both.

The Cary Tree Archive is an ecosystem restoration. The project will transform seven and a half acres from a derived field of aggressive grass and weeds to a forest populated with native Old Growth species. All planting and maintenance is done by volunteers. It is the most ambitious land-restoration project in the Piedmont.

The Hub Farm’s mission is to improve the academic achievement and health of students in Durham Public Schools through project-based learning in outdoor environments. Supporting this mission, the Hub Farm site includes a food production garden, rain gardens, pollinator gardens, beehives, a floating aquatic lab, a forest ecosystem, ponds, wetland and streams, and robust and diverse community and institutional partnership networks that leverage this physical resource for the academic achievement and health of Durham’s youth.

The Lourdes Bounty Community Garden brings parish and school families together to nurture the land and provide a community activity that educates and enriches relationships with God, and others, while providing fresh, sustainable food to those in need in the parish and broader community.