• San Francisco
• Oakland
• Los Angeles
• Portland
• Austin
• Dallas
• Houston
• Chicago
• St Paul & Minneapolis
• Atlanta
• Boston
• Philadelphia
• New York City

San Francisco

Alemany Farms

At the foot of Bernal Heights, nestled near Alemany Boulevard and Interstate 280, lie four pristine acres where, once upon a time, folks dumped their dead car batteries, useless appliances, and lousy furniture. Skip that way these days, though, and you'll find fields of kale, chard, and broccoli; apple, fig, and kumquat orchards.

Hunters Point Family

The Hunters Point Family program participants are given an extraordinary training and employment opportunity through their experiences in the agency — two urban organic farms. Participants grow organic produce and distribute it to families in the community, every Thursday, at HPF's community food pantry. They also sell the organic produce they grow at a local Farmers Market.

Literacy for Environmental Justice – Youth Envision Program

The Youth Envision Program provides job training to Bayview Hunters Point youth in the fields of community-based participatory research; sustainable food access; marketing; popular education and organizing. Fifteen to thirty high-school through college-aged youth are employed annually to increase the availability of healthy foods in their community in partnership with a selection of city and private agencies

Urban Sprouts

Urban Sprouts is a school garden program that serves low-income youth from San Francisco’s under-served neighborhoods. We teach youth to grow, harvest, prepare and eat vegetables from the school garden, in order to help youth become more engaged in school, eat better and exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other.

Oakland

City Slicker Farms

City Slicker Farms seeks to increase food self-sufficiency in West Oakland by creating organic, sustainable, bio-intensive market farms and back-yard gardens that provide affordable fresh produce to West Oakland residents. These gardens also create earning opportunities for participants and serve as community spaces for children and adults who want to learn about the connections between ecology, farming, and the urban environment.

Mo Better Foods

“Pick a Fruit. Feed a Child. Plant a Seed. Feed a Nation”

In 1998, we developed an agreement with the African American Farmers of California, that, if they could bring healthy food to Oakland’s food insecure communities, East and West Oakland, our program The Mo’ Better Food Market would get the word out for people to come out and support. The Mo’ Better Food Market, started selling produce grown from Black farmers in 1998 at Mack’s Meat, on MacArthur Blvd in East Oakland.

O.B.U.G.S. – Oakland Butterfly and Urban Gardens

OBUGS is an Oakland based California 501 C non profit organization founded in the summer of 1998. It is OBUGS' mission to strengthen families and build community through educational programs offered in a network of neighborhood gardens, green spaces and farmers markets.

People's Grocery

We want to change the way the food system works. Our mission is to develop a self-reliant, socially just and sustainable food system in West Oakland through community-based, youth-focused and innovative social enterprises, urban agricultural projects, educational programs and public policy initiatives that foster healthy, equitable and ecological community development.

Sol – Sustaining Ourselves Locally

Sol resides in a mixed-use building in East Oakland. Here in the neighborhood of Lower San Antonio we are transforming an urban space into a center for sustainable living. By growing organic food, conserving and recycling resources, and organizing community events and workshops, we are exploring ways to make the city more healthy and liveable for all its inhabitants.

West Oakland Food Collaborative Project

Los Angeles

Food From the Hood

The mission of the organization is to utilize hands-on entrepreneur opportunities to foster business, academic, and life skills impacting challenged young people's ability to attend college and become self sufficient, contributing adults. We provide academic tutoring and college entrance exam training in collaboration with mentoring, skills training, and business skills development. Additionally, we are committed to supporting students in business ventures which are socially responsible, environmentally sound, and neighborhood-friendly, promoting a spirit of cooperation and responsibility.

Gardening/Urban Agriculture Component

This component focuses on practical applications of Environmental Science, Garden Management, and Nutrition. Students will be trained to tend a large garden, learn organic farming skills, and learn to operate machinery (root-tillers, weed-wackers, etc.) We are coordinating all activities on-site at the 25-acre Veteran's Garden in Los Angeles, transporting teens to the Garden site during after school and weekend hours

South Central Farmers

Since 1992, the 14 acres of property located at 41st and Alameda Streets in Los Angeles have been used as a community garden or farm.  The land has been divided into 360 plots and is believed to be one of the largest urban gardens in the country.

“In the middle of the inner-city poverty of South Central Los Angeles, the South Central Farmers are feeding families with serious food that includes cabbage, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, cactus and other staples. The South Central Farmers have creatively turned a section of inner-city squalor into a life sustaining farm that feeds the marginalized working poor families of Los Angeles

Watts Garden Club

"Some seeds sprout in water, some sprout in soil, some sprout in cold and some sprout in fire!" "Anna Marie Carter aka "The Seed Lady of Watts".

Our goal is to bring about social, economic, and nutritional justice to Watts, California - one seed at a time! We are a group of people from various walks of life. Our classes at the Watts Garden Club are centered around organic agriculture, but are not limited to that subject.

Portland

Growing Gardens

Growing Gardens was founded in 1996 with a mission to promote food gardening for improved nutrition, health, and self-reliance while enhancing the quality of life of individuals and communities.

Austin

Sustainable Food Center (SFC)

Founded in 1993, the Sustainable Food Center believes that every person deserves access to fresh, nourishing food. By promoting a vibrant and sustainable local food system and teaching children and adults about eating healthfully, SFC provides long-term solutions to hunger and diet-related diseases. More than 20,000 Central Texans benefit from our programs annually.

Sunshine Gardens

Sunshine Gardens is a community garden located in Austin, Texas. With over 200 gardeners, Sunshine is one of the largest community gardens in the nation.

Dallas

Gardeners in Community Development

Gardeners in Community Development (GICD) is a Dallas area nonprofit organization of professionals, volunteers, and supporters of community gardening and neighborhood greening.

Our mission is growing people. Each year Gardeners in Community Development makes it possible for hundreds of Dallas area families, mostly low-income, to enjoy fresh vegetables, herbs, fruits, and flowers grown in our community gardens. These gardens enhance the quality of life in area neighborhoods in many ways, and provide a place to learn and share our joy of gardening with others.

Houston

Urban Harvest

We help build communities from the ground up by promoting sustainable urban land and horticultural practices to grow food and reduce hunger.

Chicago

Institute for Community Resource Development Farms

Contact: Ladonna Redmond
Tel: 630-552-1806

The mission of the Institute for Community Resource Development (ICRD) in Chicago, Illinois is to rebuild the local food system. ICRD projects include: building grocery stores that bring access to sustainable products to urban communities of color, organizing farmers markets, converting vacant lots to urban farm sites, and distributing locally grown produce to restaurants. ICRD is a founding partner of the Chicago Food Systems Collaboration (CFSC): a community and university partnership that examines food access in Chicago. The ultimate goal of CFSC is to build a locally owned grocery that provides access to healthy, high-quality foods including fruits and vegetables to urban residents.

St Paul & Minneapolis

Farm in the City

“Growing a healthy community through community gardening & greening”
• a garden-based summer program for children ages 7-12
• a teen leader summer program
• a year-round environmental and community arts program
• a community garden with individual plots
• a supportive gardening program for new Americans
• a market garden program with deaf Hmong gardeners
• a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program
• a site for service learning with area college students

GardenWorks

Our Mission: to promote and preserve community gardening in the Twin Cities Metro Area. 
Our Philosophy: community gardeners are the best experts on community gardening. 
Our Charge: to connect gardeners from across the metro area so they can learn from and support each other in this great endeavor.

Atlanta

Atlanta Community Gardens

Mission:  To build a coalition with diverse members committed to supporting community gardens in Atlanta, to the development of an emerging local food system, and to incorporating greenspace use into urban lifestyles for increased quality of life. 

Atlanta Local Foods Initiative

Atlanta Local Foods Initiative is a new coalition working to build a locally-based food system that enhances human health, promotes environmental renewal, fosters local economies and links rural and urban communities.

Boston

The Food Project

Our mission is to grow a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system. We produce healthy food for residents of the city and suburbs and provide youth leadership opportunities.   Most importantly, we strive to inspire and support others to create change in their own communities.

Philadelphia

Urban Agriculture in Philadelphia

Much of Philadelphia was built after the turn of the century, with the population finally peeking in 1950 at about two million. Since then it has dropped back to just over one and a half million, not much more than in 1900.

This loss of people and housing leaves a lot of open space for urban agricultural development. The hundreds of garbage strewn vacant lots (sometimes constituting 50 percent of a city block's area) have stimulated citizens to create what has been called "the largest comprehensive urban greening program in North America."

Philadelphia has a wide range of service groups dedicated to helping urban food gardeners, most acclaimed being Philadelphia Green, Penn State Urban Gardening Program and the Neighborhood Gardens Association.

Philadelphia Green, part of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
For more information call 215-988-8800

The Neighborhood Gardens Association's goal is the long term preservation of community gardens. Most community gardeners do not own the land they garden and are always at risk of being asked to leave the land. In the last few years more than five acres of gardens in Philadelphia have been built upon or developed for other uses. The NGA battles against this trend, thus far acquiring a total of 16 gardens.

Penn State's Urban Gardening Program was established in 1977 as part of a 6-city federal demonstration program.
For more information call 215-471-2224

New York City

Community Garden Mapping Project

Added Value

Added Value is a non-profit organization promoting the sustainable development of Red Hook by nurturing a new generation of young leaders. We work towards this goal by creating opportunities for the youth of South Brooklyn to expand their knowledge base, develop new skills and positively engage with their community through the operation of a socially responsible urban farming enterprise.

Green Guerillas

Since 1973 greenguerillas™ has helped thousands of people realize their dreams of turning vacant rubble-strewn lots into vibrant community gardens. Each year we work with hundreds of grassroots groups throughout New York City to strengthen underserved neighborhoods through community gardening. With our help, people grow food, plant flowers, educate youth, paint colorful murals and preserve their gardens as vital community centers for future generations

GreenThumb

Established in 1978, GreenThumb (GT) remains the nation's largest urban gardening program, assisting over 600 gardens and nearly 20,000 garden members throughout New York City. Their mission is to foster civic participation and encourage neighborhood revitalization while preserving open space. Today, the GT program, by providing materials and technical assistance, continues to support neighborhood volunteers who manage community gardens as active and attractive community resources. GT gardens are located in all five boroughs of New York City. The majority of GT gardens are located in economically disadvantaged community planning districts that receive federal financial support through a complement of open space, affordable housing, and economic development. Active garden sites create a stable force in the community and serve as anchors for other re-development initiatives.
www.greenthumbnyc.org

Harlem United Gardeners

To support Harlem’s community gardeners in our campaign to preserve and increase green space in Harlem. To establish and maintain productive, consistent relationships with our communities, other gardeners, public officials and media related to green and open space issues.

We believe that community gardens and green spaces are an essential component of community life, producing measurable social, health and economic benefits

JUST Food

Just Food is a non-profit organization that works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region. We do this by fostering new marketing and food-growing opportunities that address the needs of regional, rural family farms, NYC community gardeners, and NYC communities.

La Familia Verde

La Familia Verde is a coalition of community gardens in the Crotona, East Tremont, and West Farms neighborhoods in the Bronx. Formed in 1998, our mission is to sustain the environment and culture of our neighborhood through education, community service, and horticulture.

New York Restoration Project

New York Restoration Project (NYRP) carries out founder Bette Midler's dream of a cleaner, more beautiful New York. NYRP restores, develops, and revitalizes underserved parks, community gardens, and open space in New York City. We invest in the communities we serve by providing on-going maintenance and programs because we believe that every individual has the right to a beautiful neighborhood and the responsibility for contributing to its care.