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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A Sip of Paradise Garden

A Sip of Paradise Garden's mission is to provide a healthy and safe garden space for bartenders to recharge their creativity, their minds, and themselves. Their vision is for all bartenders to grow food and flowers for themselves and their families to help transform their wellness and happiness.

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Agrowkulture, Urban Farm

The AgrowKulture Urban Farm is dedicated to combating food deserts and fostering entrepreneurship. Our mission is to empower youth through early education in organic, sustainable growing, harvesting practices, and marketing, creating a future where communities thrive with access to fresh, locally sourced produce.

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Aluma Farm

Since its city approval in late 2014, Aluma Farm has expanded to 3.8 acres. Their aim is to feed Atlanta’s need for locally grown food, foster neighborhood pride, and build awareness and community around farming, healthy environmental practices, and healthful foods. Founders Andrea and Andy come from a long background of agriculture and both quickly came to love small-scale and mindful farming practices. They are in the expansion stage of their 5 year plan, building a chicken coop, creating a community garden, and hosting farm tours and educational events.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Cabbagetown Community Garden

The Cabbagetown Community Garden was opened to the public in the summer of 2010 and currently houses 32 raised garden beds and two thriving beehives. The creation of the garden and installation of hives was a combined effort of the Cabbagetown community, the City of Atlanta, Park Pride and later, The Little Bee Project. The garden is the first community garden of its kind in Atlanta. The garden's mission is to leverage its unique urban location to engage the community and educate gardeners of all ages and backgrounds by empowering them to plant, grow and harvest healthy organic food.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Chattahoochee Queen

Chattahoochee Queen is a specialty cut flower business located in Atlanta, Georgia. The founder, Evan Neal, began farming flowers alongside Brent Hall of Freewheel Farm in 2014 after having spent time farming in Pescadero, California - it was in California that he became acquainted with unfamiliar and fascinating cut flower varieties being grown exclusively for local markets. Moving back to his home state of Georgia in 2012, he started growing flowers in his own backyard, and wherever else he could squeeze a few feet of bedspace in...and has been growing ever since! He currently farms on less than a quarter of an acre, but by focusing on growing intensively and replenishing the soil with top-quality compost, he can grow a whole lot of flowers! They currently sell at Grant Park Farmers Market, to local restaurants, bakeries, and florists, and supply flowers for special events.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Community Farmers Markets

The mission of Community Farmers Markets is to develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact. Their purpose is to preserve, root, and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy lifestyles while providing a sustainable living for producers who steward the earth.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Community Foodscapes

Community Foodscapes is a social venture working in Atlanta, Georgia to empower individuals, organizations, and communities to grow food where they live, work, and play. They provide consultations, designs, edible landscaping, and garden installations. Compost donated to this organization will go towards one of the community gardens they manage, such as the Campbellton Community Garden in the Oakland City / Venetian Hills neighborhood.

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Crack in the Sidewalk Farmlet
Crack in the Sidewalk Farmlet is a multidisciplinary urban farm and homestead community based in the Lakewood neighborhood of South Atlanta. Strongly based in the ethics and practices of permaculture and bioregionalism since their founding in 2008, they work to revitalize soils to support biodiversity, community, and food resiliency. Specializing in diversity, they've grown, trialed, and foraged a vast array of lesser known plants to offer the community an ever changing banquet that rebuilds and reconnects us to place-based lifeways. 
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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
DeKalb County Schools

Our DeKalb County School Garden Partners currently include Clarkston High SchoolPrimavera Preschool, The Paideia SchoolThe Waldorf School of AtlantaSpringdale Park Elementary SchoolTalley Street Upper Elementary School, Beacon High Middle School, Avondale Elementary School, John R. Lewis Elementary School Garden, Parkside Elementary, Paideia School, Oakhurst Cooperative Preschool, Chamblee High School, and The GLOBE Academy.  When you share your earned compost with DeKalb 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! 

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Ecosystem Farm

Ecosystem Farm grows nutrient-dense foods without any pesticides, herbicides, fungicides or fertilizers. Their goal is to foster a healthy soil food web that supports their plants by making every nutrient available when they need it. 

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
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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Duke Campus Farm

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.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Durham County Schools

Our Durham County School Garden Partners are currently The Lerner School, Glenn Elementary SchoolEno Valley Elementary, C. E. Jordan High School Greenhouse & Garden, Bethesda Elementary School, Lyons Farm Elementary School, Oak Grove Elementary, R.N. Harris Elementary SchoolSandy Ridge Elementary SchoolHillandale Elementary School, Eastway Elementary School, Durham School of the ArtsW.G. Pearson Magnet Elementary School, E.K. Powe Elementary School, Hope Creek Gardens for Neurodiverse StudentsNorthern High School, Lucas Middle School, Carolina Friends School, and Holt Elementary SchoolWhen 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! 

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Eastgate Community Garden
Eastgate Community Garden seeks to promote a healthier Raleigh through community gardening. They intend to grow and distribute sustainable produce in under-utilized neighborhood green spaces and foster community involvement through positive social interaction between neighbors.
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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Eno River Garden

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.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Epworth UMC Pollinator Garden

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.

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Farm Church
Farm Church is a church that meets on a farm and leverage all of the resources of that farm to address food insecurity in our community. They believe that everyone, regardless of circumstance, should have access to healthy, organically grown food. They're currently farming a vacant lot on the corner of Watts and Green Streets in Durham - a site in need of some serious soil amending. Your compost helps
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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Feed Durham Mutual Aid Project

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.

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Food Bank CENC Community and Demonstration Garden

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

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Food For Thought

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.

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Fresh Harvest Garden

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.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*