2021

LCSG promotes healthy behaviors, increases nutrition knowledge, and builds skills for cooking and gardening with kids and families in Longview and Kelso, WA. Because of us, families have increased access to fresh, organic, locally grown produce, regardless of their ability to pay, their ability or interest in gardening or their lack of access to fresh foods because of where they live. Each day, we are meeting children where they already learn and play, providing them the skills, exposure and excitement to foster healthy habits that last a lifetime.

The Homeless Garden Project is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that has spent 30 years providing the essential business of growing food for the community and human services to those experiencing homelessness. HGP has been growing and innovating for better and more sustainable services providing job training, transitional employment and support services to people who are experiencing homelessness.

The mission of the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS or the Center) is to research, develop, and advance sustainable food and agricultural systems that are environmentally sound, economically viable, socially responsible, nonexploitative, and that serve as a foundation for future generations. Our certified-organic 33-acre farm and 3-acre garden are used for undergraduate education, training in organic farming and gardening, and research on organic production methods.

Seed Savers Exchange’s mission is to conserve and promote America’s culturally diverse but endangered garden and food crop heritage for current and future generations by collecting, growing, and sharing heirloom seeds and plants. Requests for seeds are flowing in via multiple channels, and we are working to keep our employees safe while meeting the sharply increased demand for seeds—symbols of security, hope, and resilience—in these uncertain times. Enhancing access to open-pollinated seeds directly impacts access to fresh, healthy food.

Organic Seed Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that advances ethical seed solutions to meet food and farming needs in a changing world. Our work ensures an abundant and diverse supply of ecologically grown seed, tended in perpetuity by skilled and diverse communities of seed stewards.

MATTER is on a mission to move people forward by giving them a chance at a healthier life. Internationally, we give hospitals the tools they need to care for the sick and injured in dignified ways and create sustainable farms. Opportunity also reaches people through the MATTER Innovation Hub, a portable learning environment that can implemented anywhere in the world. In the U.S. we activate healthy eating for kids and families through the MATTERbox, a novel solution to food insecurity and nutrition education.

 Launched in 2018, our Climate Victory Gardens (CVGs) campaign is improving access to healthy food by recruiting new and seasoned gardeners across the country to use regenerative gardening practices. Modelled after the successful Victory Gardens of WWI and WWII, our CVG campaign is recruiting individuals and communities to turn their backyards, nearby vacant lots, parkways, or open fields into spaces that produce healthy, organic food.

Organic Transition Trainer Program provides technical assistance to farmers throughout Kentucky as they apply for USDA organic certification.

By providing food as medicine, we nourish our clients and build community. Our Purpose: We create an inclusive and joyful community to provide high-quality medically tailored meals, nutrition education and hope to our clients.

MOFGA is a broad-based community that educates about and advocates for organic agriculture, illuminating its interdependence with a healthy environment, local food production, and thriving communities. MOFGA envisions a future of healthy ecosystems, communities, people and economies sustained by the practice of organic agriculture.