FROM LODI TO STATEN ISLAND: INTRODUCING OUR GIVING GARDENS
Woodbridge Winery Giving Garden, Lodi, California
In 2010, we established our giving garden at the Woodbridge Winery where dedicated employees grow fruit and vegetables that are then donated to the Stockton San Joaquin Emergency Food Bank to be distributed to needy families in the community. Read More...
Solano Canyon Farms, Los Angeles, California
Five acres in metro Los Angeles, California have been transformed into orchards, vegetable gardens and a teaching garden for at-risk teenagers. Produce goes to local restaurants and a women’s shelter. Read More...
Live Oak Community Garden, Dallas, Texas
Many residents of the East Dallas neighborhood where this garden is located are from Asian countries where gardening and farming are essential elements of family life. They use the community garden to grow food for themselves and for donation to food banks. Read More...
Metro Atlanta Urban Community Garden, Atlanta, Georgia
In a part of the city where grocery stores emphasize foods with marginal nutritional value, residents use the community garden to grow healthy fruits and vegetables. In doing, they take aim at obesity, diabetes and other health problems associated with poornutrition. Read More...
Joe Holzka Garden, Staten Island, New York
In this half-acre garden, marigolds and other flowers add color to the profusion of fruits and vegetables grown here. Produce is donated to a local food pantry that provides more than 200,000 meals each year to local low-income and working poor families. Read More...
Miami Shiloh Garden, Miami, Florida
This garden provides fruits and vegetables for the neighborhood, and also much-needed green space in an urban environment.The produce grown goes to local farmers’ markets in the neighborhood to subsidize food costs for residents. Read More...
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