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.
The CCOF Foundation advances organic agriculture for a healthy world by investing in the education of new organic farmers and producers, helping consumers understand the benefits of organic, assisting organic farmers in times of disaster, providing ongoing training for organic professionals and supporting farmers transitioning to certified organic practices.
ALBA's mission is to create economic opportunities for limited-resource farmers through land-based training in organic farm management.
Via engaging, hands-on food education, Pilot Light uses food as a vehicle to teach, advance wellness, and build interpersonal connections. Our mission is to support students as they learn & advocate for informed choices by bridging the lessons they learn in their classrooms to the foods on their lunch trays, at home & in their communities. Through our model, we are helping a generation of changemakers build informed lifelong relationships with food and advocate for more sustainable food systems.
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.
KCCG is a non-profit membership organization that helps people grow vegetables and fruit from garden plots and orchards located in backyards, schoolyards, vacant lots and community sites. KCCG offers low-cost seed and plant varieties chosen to thrive in the Kansas City climate along with garden resources, free educational workshops and technical assistance… all to help your garden and orchard thrive!
Cornucopia provides hands-on education about nutrition, horticulture, environmentalism, and community. We operate an educational farm with outdoor growing areas, three high tunnels and a pollinator habitat. It is the hub of Farm to Fork, one of three programs we offer. The farm is centrally located in our school district, across from the high school. We have a history of hands-on education that highlights the importance of nutrition, environmental awareness, and community; while delivering solid academic work that satisfies state and federal education goals.