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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The Aflorar Herb Collective is a collective of folk herbalists, herbal enthusiasts, artists, gardeners, and community organizers working to relearn and remember our traditional ways through herbs, connection to the land, and healing through Chicanx, Latinx, Black and Indigenous traditional practices and values. We are working together using nature's tools to guide us on a journey to restore, remember, and reconnect to our shared healing, knowledge, and freedom to liberate our communities.
In this political climate- climate catastrophe, pandemics, racial uprisings, and immigration raids our communities need medicine that reconnects us to the earth, who we are, and where we come from. Aflorar supports communities through herbal community care kit distribution, mutual aid hub (in Asheville, NC), growers network, medicine making, seed saving, and herb plant start giveaway every spring.
In addition to providing healing accompaniment for trauma related to protests, raids, and discrimination, Aflorar partner’s with national and local organizations, clinical herbalists, and farmers to get the goods we need to serve our mission.
The Aflorar Herb Collective is a collective of folk herbalists, herbal enthusiasts, artists, gardeners, and community organizers working to relearn and remember our traditional ways through herbs, connection to the land, and healing through Chicanx, Latinx, Black and Indigenous traditional practices and values. We are working together using nature's tools to guide us on a journey to restore, remember, and reconnect to our shared healing, knowledge, and freedom to liberate our communities.
In this political climate- climate catastrophe, pandemics, racial uprisings, and immigration raids our communities need medicine that reconnects us to the earth, who we are, and where we come from. Aflorar supports communities through herbal community care kit distribution, mutual aid hub (in Asheville, NC), growers network, medicine making, seed saving, and herb plant start giveaway every spring.
In addition to providing healing accompaniment for trauma related to protests, raids, and discrimination, Aflorar partner’s with national and local organizations, clinical herbalists, and farmers to get the goods we need to serve our mission.
The Asheville Buncombe Community Garden Network is coordinated by Asheville based nonprofit, Bountiful Cities, connecting almost 40 gardens. Bountiful Cities is able to coordinate shared workdays, a tool library, seed library, volunteer recruitment, potlucks, and shared resources - like COMPOST! Bountiful Cities is also able to provide free workshops to community gardeners on all kinds of related topics like seed starting, and mushroom log inoculation. The goal of the network is to strengthen neighborhood-powered food initiatives through collaboration.
The Asheville Buncombe Community Garden Network is coordinated by Asheville based nonprofit, Bountiful Cities, connecting almost 40 gardens. Bountiful Cities is able to coordinate shared workdays, a tool library, seed library, volunteer recruitment, potlucks, and shared resources - like COMPOST! Bountiful Cities is also able to provide free workshops to community gardeners on all kinds of related topics like seed starting, and mushroom log inoculation. The goal of the network is to strengthen neighborhood-powered food initiatives through collaboration.
Our Buncombe County School Garden Partners currently include Evergreen Community Charter School, The Growing Wild Forest School, and Issac Dickson Elementary School. When you share your earned compost with Buncombe County Schools, these 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!
Our Buncombe County School Garden Partners currently include Evergreen Community Charter School, The Growing Wild Forest School, and Issac Dickson Elementary School. When you share your earned compost with Buncombe County Schools, these 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!
Eliada’s Campus Farm program provides food and educational opportunities for its 400 students and residents 365 days a year. The farm currently consists of three growing facilities: a geodesic Grow Dome, a hoop house, and a learning garden. Between the three facilities, their farm program is equipped to grow year-round. Produce from the farm goes directly to Eliada’s on-campus kitchen where it is used to create nutritional, fresh meals for the students served on campus. A portion of the Learning Garden is also dedicated to a therapeutic tea garden where they grow herbs youths help bag and drink as a self-soothing ritual. Additional produce grown outside of the kitchen's needs is supplied to food boxes through our Healthy Opportunities Pilot program, giving food boxes to community members in need.
They use a geodesic dome for year-round growing using hydroponics, soil beds, and aquaponics. Their 3-season hoop house is off-grid and utilizes 70 ft long raised beds for things like tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce, and other salad items. Their Learning Garden is 1/4 acre and utilizes a deep mulch compost system and no-till practices to, without the use of chemicals, grow larger quantities of things like beans, potatoes, onions, squash, melons, salad greens, and tea herbs. This spring they're putting in a berry patch with strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries. The Campus farm program is fully grant and donor funded and is one of the several programs that non-profit Eliada Homes operates on its campus as part of their child and youth services. Our Farm manager, in addition to growing all this food, also teaches hands-on agricultural education classes to their K-12 students on a weekly basis. Students are the ones helping to grow this food right alongside our Farm Manager.
Eliada’s Campus Farm program provides food and educational opportunities for its 400 students and residents 365 days a year. The farm currently consists of three growing facilities: a geodesic Grow Dome, a hoop house, and a learning garden. Between the three facilities, their farm program is equipped to grow year-round. Produce from the farm goes directly to Eliada’s on-campus kitchen where it is used to create nutritional, fresh meals for the students served on campus. A portion of the Learning Garden is also dedicated to a therapeutic tea garden where they grow herbs youths help bag and drink as a self-soothing ritual. Additional produce grown outside of the kitchen's needs is supplied to food boxes through our Healthy Opportunities Pilot program, giving food boxes to community members in need.
They use a geodesic dome for year-round growing using hydroponics, soil beds, and aquaponics. Their 3-season hoop house is off-grid and utilizes 70 ft long raised beds for things like tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce, and other salad items. Their Learning Garden is 1/4 acre and utilizes a deep mulch compost system and no-till practices to, without the use of chemicals, grow larger quantities of things like beans, potatoes, onions, squash, melons, salad greens, and tea herbs. This spring they're putting in a berry patch with strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries. The Campus farm program is fully grant and donor funded and is one of the several programs that non-profit Eliada Homes operates on its campus as part of their child and youth services. Our Farm manager, in addition to growing all this food, also teaches hands-on agricultural education classes to their K-12 students on a weekly basis. Students are the ones helping to grow this food right alongside our Farm Manager.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
