Our Role Models

First Step Farm -- Candler, NC

Growing Home -- Chicago, IL

Growing Power -- Milwaukee, WI

Anathoth Community Garden -- Cedar Grove, NC

The Garden Project -- San Francisco, CA

SEEDS -- Durham, NC

Re-entry

Centerforce

Supports, educates and advocates for individuals, families and communities impacted by incarceration.

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Works for justice, opportunity and peace in urban America. Based in Oakland, CA, the organization promotes positive alternatives to violence and incarceration through four cutting-edge campaigns.

Food and Farming

Carolina Farm Stewardship Association

Promotes sustainable agriculture in the Carolinas by inspiring, educating and organizing farmers and consumers.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Women and Population Division: Gender and Food Security

Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

Empowers farmers, individuals and communities in the South to create an agricultural system that is ecologically sound, economically viable and socially just.

Women's Agriculture Network

Works to increase the number of women who own and operate profitable farms and ag-related businesses and boosts womens' profiles in leadership positions throughout the agricultural sectors of business, government and community.

Social Entrepreneurship

Added Value

Creates 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.

The Garden Project

Integrated, community-wide, systemic response to crime, high rates of recidivism, and unemployment. The organization links crime and poverty with stewardship of the environment and the community.

Southern Rural Black Womens Initiative

Promotes human rights and the eradication of historical race, class, cultural, religious and gender barriers experienced by southern rural black women.

Revision House

Works with reVision House, a shelter for homeless young women and their children, to increase access to affordable, nutritious, culturally appropriate food for shelter residents and community members through community-supported farm and greenhouses.

New Visions, New Ventures

Provides women with the knowledge, skills, resources, and confidence necessary to achieve economic success and financial security.

Homeless Garden Project

Provide homeless men and women job training and transitional employment in the beauty and security of a certified organic garden.

Partners