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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our DeKalb County School Garden Partners currently include Clarkston High School, Primavera Preschool, The Paideia School, The Waldorf School of Atlanta, Springdale Park Elementary School, Talley 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! 

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. 

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.

Keep Durham Beautiful builds environmentally just and healthy outdoor spaces in cooperation with Durham communities.

Kidzu Children's Museum Pollinator Garden's native pollinator garden is where growing gardeners can get their hands dirty! Children can explore our raised beds as they plant, tend, and care for our pollinator plots, and buzz about with their fellow pollinators at this exciting outdoor learning exhibit.

Laurel's Garden Design's mission is to create beautiful, functional, and self-sustaining gardens that promote conservation and increase biodiversity in the landscape. They also grow vegetables and fruits for harvest during the Summer and early Fall to give to the low-income community surrounding their area, as well as grow native plants year-round. The garden is certified with the North Carolina Native Plant Society’s Native Plant Garden Certificate and National Wildlife Federation as a Certified Wildlife Habitat, as well as The Butterfly Highway.

Morrisville Community Garden, located at 219 Church St. in Morrisville, designated by BCBSNC as Wake County's sole Nourishing NC Garden, sees our mission as a community-centered service organization.

We believe the garden offers the following benefits to our community: encouraging self-reliance by teaching people how to grow their own food; strengthening community pride by providing a common goal; increasing the Town's aesthetic by turning otherwise unused land into a productive garden; teaching compassion through charitable giving; teaching the values of commitment and patience; promoting good health by giving people the opportunity to work outside; providing access to healthy, fresh, locally-grown produce and benefiting the environment.

Through partnerships with the Town of Morrisville, Advocates for Health in Action and others, we aim to promote healthy living through the garden.

Durham's North St. Community Garden is a community building effort - to have activities for the people in our North Street Community of folks with disabilities and friends, and include the neighbors who have lived in this area before we moved in, as well as the many volunteers who helped put the gardens in place, so that we can all get to know and support each other. We enjoy planting, maintaining, and getting together to make pesto, salsa, etc from the bounty.

Our Orange County School Garden Partners currently include: McDougle Elementary School, Carrboro Elementary School, and Estes Hills Elementary School Garden. When you share your earned compost with Orange 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! 

Parkwood Community Garden is a gathering space for residents of the Parkwood neighborhood in Durham which includes seasonal vegetables and fruits, herbs, a pollinator garden, and a rain garden. At Parkwood Community Garden, they're not just committed to growing food, they're also growing relationships, and future gardeners! They are supported by residents and volunteers who help them to provide access to fresh food and build healthy soil without the use of pesticides or chemical fertilizers. It’s a valuable place for people to come together, and for beginning gardeners to gain experience, which they can use in their home gardens, and hopefully to also encourage gardens at their local schools. Thank you for considering them – your compost is a huge help!

The primary mission of the Passage Home Community Garden is to address food insecurities and increase community activism. The Community Garden located next to their main office at, 513 Bragg St. in Raleigh offers over 20 different types of vegetables and fruit at little to no cost. Almost entirely community-led, Passage Home invites you to join them in supporting one another through fresh food, community, and health.

Piedmont Microgreens' mission is to grow the freshest, highest quality, and most nutrition microgreens for chefs and home consumers in the Triangle. They feel that the best way to do this is through a combination of indoor and outdoor production, and by partnering with other local companies to source high quality inputs, such as compost, soil, fertilizers, and composting services.

Raleigh City Farm is a nonprofit urban farm founded in 2011 on a formerly vacant one-acre lot in downtown Raleigh. Their mission is to connect and nourish the community through regenerative agriculture and to grow the next generation of farmers by connecting the community to sustainable agriculture. An estimated 15,000 people pass by the Farm each day, offering them a chance to see that a city's food doesn't have to come from the country or far away.