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

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.

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!

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

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 Garden, The Montessori School of Raleigh, North Chatham Elementary School Garden, Joyner Magnet Elementary School, and 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! 

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.

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.