Growing Gardens

The Community Driven Home Gardens Program Expansion Is an Innovative, Community-led Initiative, Which Uses Comprehensive Home-based Garden Programs to Increase and Improve the Food Access of Marginalized Communities, While Also Strengthening National Efforts to Address These Issues. the Project:utilizes Our Unique, De-centralized, Community-driven Model That Hires Community-based Leaders, Actively Engages in Undoing Racism as a Core Strategy, and Centers the Voices and Experiences of Communities of Color.hire Program Graduates That Have Direct Experience With Food Insecurity to Continue Their Work to Build a Movement in Their Own Neighborhoods, Thus Creating Jobs and Economic Opportunitiesresponds Directly to an Expressed Community Need Identified Through a Multi-year Listening Project Led by Our Team of Program Graduates That Each Work in Their Own Neighborhood as Community Organizersuses Culturally Responsive, Participatory, Relationship-based Practices to Build Strength-based Programmingincreases the Connections Between Local Businesses, Non-profit Organizations, and Government Agencies in Specific Regions to Increase Food Securityincreases the Capacity of Home Gardeners to Provide Healthy Food for Their Families and Communities, Through Garden Installations, Education, Supplies, and Direct Supportimproves Health Though Nutrition and Food Preparation Education, and Connection to Food Resourcesdisseminates Materials and Support Nation-wide for Organizations to Replicate Our Model for Community-driven Food Security, Lifelong Self-reliance, and Systems Change