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Schoolyard Roots cultivates curiosity and connections through hands-on learning gardens. We engage communities with food and nature to inspire, delight, and bring classroom concepts to life. We grow vegetables, fruits, and flowers in school gardens and teach students how to prepare healthful, delicious recipes. By providing our students with engaging, hands-on learning and nutrition education, our program helps them to achieve academic success and live a healthier life.

DUG's mission is to provide access, skills and resources for people to grow healthy food in community and regenerate urban greenspaces. Vision: A sustainable urban future where people are deeply and directly connected to the earth, each other and the food they eat. Established in 1985, DUG supports residents in creating sustainable, food-producing community gardens. With 193 gardens, including 74 at schools, 1 farm and 6 food forests, DUG is now the largest independent network of community gardens in the country.

Cooking with Kids educates and empowers children and families to make healthy food choices through hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods. We aim to positively change eating behaviors, increase home cooking practices, and support public schools in their efforts to engage students in creative and cross-disciplinary ways. As we tell our students: We take care of ourselves when we cook; we use science and math when we cook; we learn about our world when we cook!

The Food Pantry purchases food from the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia and two local grocers. We also receive donated food from individuals and, on occasion, from other charitable organizations. The food is stored in our warehouse and boxed for clients based on family size and composition. The boxes are given to families who qualify by being residents of White County and meeting USDA poverty thresholds.

UpRoot Colorado (UpRoot) measurably reduces surplus protective foods in Colorado, supports the economic stability of farmers and increases the nutritional security of our state’s residents.

The Fulton Fresh Mobile Market was created in 2008 to educate residents living in communities designated as food deserts on the importance of fresh, in-season produce. Each week of the program, Fulton Fresh staff provide a 30-minute UGA Extension SNAP-Ed nutrition education food demonstration to market attendees, who are also provided with a free 8-10lb bag of in-season produce from our mobile market. After several years of successful adult programming, Fulton Fresh will add a Kids’ Market summer program this year.

The Vegetable Connection’s roots began growing in 2009 when the Stensons of Happy Heart Farm gave shares to six local, low-income families. Since then, we have helped almost 200 families access shares from seven farms in eleven years. Our mission is to improve Northern Colorado’s food resilience by assisting families in need with access to locally grown food, supporting our partner farms and providing food education.

The Society of St. Andrew's Alabama Gleaning Network (AGN) brings people together to harvest and share healthy food, reduce food waste, and build caring communities by offering nourishment to hungry neighbors.

Hope Farms is a vibrant greenspace that serves as a neighborhood catalyst, promoting a culture of health and community empowerment in a blighted, low-income community. With its holistic approach to health and community development, Hope Farms is transforming the struggling Sunnyside area through grassroots initiatives and environmental awareness.

We prepare and home-deliver meals to neighbors living with cancer, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s, kidney/heart/lung disease, and other chronic illnesses throughout Colorado. The meals we provide are medically tailored as they are approved by a registered dietitian and use evidence-based guidelines to ensure positive health outcomes. We tailor our meals to meet the individual and medical dietary needs of our clients, combining medical diets (i.e. renal-friendly, heart-healthy), with modifications for allergies (i.e. gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free), side-effects, medications (i.e.