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 Community Movement is a family-owned and operated business dedicated to providing a fun, enriching, and nurturing environment for children and teens. They wish to create an ideal atmosphere for athletes to challenge themselves, and a comfortable setting for children to stay while their parents work. The Asheville Community Movement loves the energy that is so abundant in children and hopes to provide a community where they feel at home and can develop the physical and internal strength that contributes to the development of confident, competent people.
The Asheville Community Movement is a family-owned and operated business dedicated to providing a fun, enriching, and nurturing environment for children and teens. They wish to create an ideal atmosphere for athletes to challenge themselves, and a comfortable setting for children to stay while their parents work. The Asheville Community Movement loves the energy that is so abundant in children and hopes to provide a community where they feel at home and can develop the physical and internal strength that contributes to the development of confident, competent people.
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, Claxton Elementary 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, Claxton Elementary 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.
Tucked into Freedom Park, the Poncey-Highland Community Garden was established in 2008. It includes over 30 raised beds and almost 10 community beds, sown with a mix of berries and insectary plants. We hope to improve Freedom Park visually and botanically for our neighbors and community members!
Tucked into Freedom Park, the Poncey-Highland Community Garden was established in 2008. It includes over 30 raised beds and almost 10 community beds, sown with a mix of berries and insectary plants. We hope to improve Freedom Park visually and botanically for our neighbors and community members!
Refarm Atlanta aims to make fresh local flowers accessible to our community and sustainable for our environment through sustainable agricultural practices and refound knowledge from growers before us.
Refarm Atlanta aims to make fresh local flowers accessible to our community and sustainable for our environment through sustainable agricultural practices and refound knowledge from growers before us.
Rooted in Solutions is a youth-led nonprofit based in Atlanta dedicated to fighting food insecurity by supporting community gardens and advancing smart, sustainable urban agriculture. Through both scientific approaches—such as soil testing and seed inoculation—and community-driven efforts, including volunteer organizing, waste repurposing, and educational outreach, they work to strengthen local food systems and meet the needs of our community.
Rooted in Solutions is a youth-led nonprofit based in Atlanta dedicated to fighting food insecurity by supporting community gardens and advancing smart, sustainable urban agriculture. Through both scientific approaches—such as soil testing and seed inoculation—and community-driven efforts, including volunteer organizing, waste repurposing, and educational outreach, they work to strengthen local food systems and meet the needs of our community.
Roots Down creates better landscapes in our communities that promote green job growth, ecological restoration, and community well-being. They're building a world where every person has access to fresh food and thriving ecosystems that feed our soils and people. Thank you for joining them and the movement to feed people while fighting climate change!
Roots Down creates better landscapes in our communities that promote green job growth, ecological restoration, and community well-being. They're building a world where every person has access to fresh food and thriving ecosystems that feed our soils and people. Thank you for joining them and the movement to feed people while fighting climate change!
The goal of the Sustaining Attention to God's Earth (hereafter SAGE) Garden is to help Columbia Theological Seminary move toward becoming a more environmentally sustainable community.
The goal of the Sustaining Attention to God's Earth (hereafter SAGE) Garden is to help Columbia Theological Seminary move toward becoming a more environmentally sustainable community.
Simple Gifts Community Garden's mission is to help return to the simple and joyful life which God intended for us. They seek to accomplish this by using the gifts of land, time, talent and resources available to them to produce fresh, organic fruits and vegetables while also building lasting friendships and cooperation within their community. They will also share the knowledge of sustainable organic gardening practices, creation care and planting for pollinators with each other and those in need within their community.
Simple Gifts Community Garden's mission is to help return to the simple and joyful life which God intended for us. They seek to accomplish this by using the gifts of land, time, talent and resources available to them to produce fresh, organic fruits and vegetables while also building lasting friendships and cooperation within their community. They will also share the knowledge of sustainable organic gardening practices, creation care and planting for pollinators with each other and those in need within their community.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
