Keep Growing Detroit Farm
The Keep Growing Detroit Farm is the place where all of our work comes together. Our farm is where half of the Garden Resource Program transplants and the Motown Music garlic seed is grown. It’s where many of our workshops are hosted and where growers of all ages practice and hone their skills. It’s also…
Read MorePenrose Market Garden
A place for individual and community activity and recreation, the design of the Garden includes a welcoming entrance, outdoor classroom space, walks and connections to the surrounding areas, a lawn/gathering/event area lined with flower beds for the market garden’s cut flowers, shade structures and seating. The form and function of the garden space connects it…
Read MoreThe Village Community Garden
The intent of the Village Community Garden is to provide food and education while meeting the needs of the community’s youth and their families. The community garden supports aeroponics technology as well as traditional agricultural practices. It is a place where youth can come to work, learn together, and engage in productive and empowering horticultural…
Read MoreSouthside Blooms
Southside Blooms is a farm-to-vase florist on the Southside of Chicago, providing unique and fashion-forward arrangements, while maintaining an uncompromising dedication to both the environment and our surrounding communities. Flowers are grown in environments which actively work to sequester carbon, not just reduce emissions. Every flower purchased from Southside Blooms creates jobs for at-risk youth,…
Read MoreNadaka Nature Park
It’s easier to find Gresham’s Nadaka Nature Park these days, thanks to a two-acre expansion supported by a $220,000 Nature in Neighborhoods grant. The park, which was tucked away in the East Wilkes Neighborhood, can now be reached from Northeast Glisan Street. More about this project >
Read MoreMaggie Walker Community Land Trust
Maggie Walker Community Land Trust is working to guarantee perpetual affordability by placing vacant properties that have been developed for residential use into a ground lease program. Pictured here is a new, affordable single-family home that was built on an empty lot.
Read MorePrairie Gardens
Kalamazoo County Land Bank is working on native plant restoration sites where plantings help to stabilize lots while they await redevelopment. More about this project >
Read MoreWest Sacramento Urban Farms
The West Sacramento Urban Farm Program converts vacant lots owned both publicly and privately in West Sacramento into Urban Farm Business Incubators. These Urban Farms work with over 600 volunteers per year, grow over 25,000 of pounds of produce per month during peak seasons, donate to Food Banks, sell to residents via on site farm…
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