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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Find your local garden.

Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church Garden
The Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church Community Garden began in 2010 and is a three-season garden, tended spring through fall. The garden has been tended by vested volunteer gardeners from Grace Covenant Church and from the community. Their mission is to donate 75% of the vegetables produced to community organizations that serve our neighbors unable to afford fresh vegetables. 
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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church Garden
The Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church Community Garden began in 2010 and is a three-season garden, tended spring through fall. The garden has been tended by vested volunteer gardeners from Grace Covenant Church and from the community. Their mission is to donate 75% of the vegetables produced to community organizations that serve our neighbors unable to afford fresh vegetables. 
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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Graham's Garden at Lighthouse

At Lighthouse, their mission is to provide safe and supportive homes for individuals seeking both stable housing and a place to heal. They are dedicated to creating a nurturing environment that promotes healing and personal growth, helping individuals rebuild their lives, foster lasting recovery, and reintegrate into their communities with renewed joy, peace, and meaning.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Graham's Garden at Lighthouse

At Lighthouse, their mission is to provide safe and supportive homes for individuals seeking both stable housing and a place to heal. They are dedicated to creating a nurturing environment that promotes healing and personal growth, helping individuals rebuild their lives, foster lasting recovery, and reintegrate into their communities with renewed joy, peace, and meaning.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Rhoades Property Garden

The Rhoades Property Garden serves as a space for UNCA students and faculty and Asheville community members to learn and participate in sustainable agriculture practices.The intergenerational activities that are practiced in the garden are intended to make connections between the diverse communities and neighborhoods of Asheville, educational institutions, and various sectors of the food system. The Rhoades Property garden provides a fun way to learn about sustainability and organic gardening and serves as an opportunity to gain and share knowledge, which in turn will create a community response to local food security.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Rhoades Property Garden

The Rhoades Property Garden serves as a space for UNCA students and faculty and Asheville community members to learn and participate in sustainable agriculture practices.The intergenerational activities that are practiced in the garden are intended to make connections between the diverse communities and neighborhoods of Asheville, educational institutions, and various sectors of the food system. The Rhoades Property garden provides a fun way to learn about sustainability and organic gardening and serves as an opportunity to gain and share knowledge, which in turn will create a community response to local food security.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Sand Hill Community Garden

The Sand Hill Community Garden is located at the Buncombe County Sports Park in West Asheville. They donate produce to MANNA, a local free farmers market, and a free community meal at a local church. Please help them keep this neighborhood garden growing strong by sharing your earned compost.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
Sand Hill Community Garden

The Sand Hill Community Garden is located at the Buncombe County Sports Park in West Asheville. They donate produce to MANNA, a local free farmers market, and a free community meal at a local church. Please help them keep this neighborhood garden growing strong by sharing your earned compost.

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

The Shiloh community is rooted in African American settlements dating back to the 19th century. Agriculture serves as a tradition in the area, one they are working to revive through their community garden and other such projects. Youth involvement at the Shiloh Community Garden includes not only the experience of growing produce organically, but lessons in food preparation, healthy eating, permaculture, sustainability, entrepreneurship, literacy, leadership and self-governance.

 

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

The Shiloh community is rooted in African American settlements dating back to the 19th century. Agriculture serves as a tradition in the area, one they are working to revive through their community garden and other such projects. Youth involvement at the Shiloh Community Garden includes not only the experience of growing produce organically, but lessons in food preparation, healthy eating, permaculture, sustainability, entrepreneurship, literacy, leadership and self-governance.

 

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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 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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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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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
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*
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 SchoolThe GLOBE Academy, Bethune Middle School, and Druid Hills High School. 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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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 SchoolThe GLOBE Academy, Bethune Middle School, and Druid Hills High School. 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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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
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*
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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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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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
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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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
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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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
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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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
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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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
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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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
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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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
South Estes Community Garden

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.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
South Estes Community Garden

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.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
St Mark AMEZ Garden

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.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
St Mark AMEZ Garden

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.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
The Cary Tree Archive

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.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
The Cary Tree Archive

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.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
The Hub Farm

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.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
The Hub Farm

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.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
The Lourdes Bounty Community Garden

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.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*
The Lourdes Bounty Community Garden

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.

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members are supporting this garden with their compost*