THE WAYS WE SERVE OUR COMMUNITY
The ways we serve are simple, bring awareness and education to how important it is to understand how your food is grown and how that food then impacts your health. We seek to make staying connected to yourself, your community and your food easy and joyful. Our website is full of resources to help and if you are interested in getting involved, we are always looking for volunteers for our various and growing programs. If you want to get involved or have ideas to help our community, please reach out here.
AWARENESS
Do you know where your food comes from? How it’s grown? Who grows it? In an age of industrial agriculture, global supply chains and chronic health issues related to food lacking nutrients, it’s more important than ever to reconnect with how our food is grown.
Support Small Farms: Local farmers nourish our communities and our soil. By choosing to buy from small, sustainable farms you’re investing in food grown with care, and helping protect farmland, jobs and food traditions.
Grow Your Own Food: Even a small garden or a few pots on a balcony can reconnect you with the seasons, your health, and your plate. It’s empowering, rewarding and delicious.
Protect Seed Diversity: Modern agriculture relies heavily on just a handful of crop varieties. Local seed banks and heirloom varieties hold the key to climate resilience, taste, and independence. Save seeds. Share them. Build community resilience.
Why it Matters:
Food grown locally tastes better and travels less.
Healthy soils = healthy food = healthy people.
Diverse seeds mean resilient food systems in a changing climate.
Supporting local farmers keeps money in your community.
Growing your own food deepens your understanding of life, nature, and sustainability.
EDUCATION
There is so much information online and at our fingertips to get started on this journey. We have compiled a list of our favorite books, documentaries, podcasts, organizations, and more that will allow you to dive into feeling more empowered and connected to nature. You don’t have to start all at once. All we ask is that you get curious and we hope you ask questions along the way! Pick up one book at the library, go to your local farmers market and make an effort to try one new fruit, vegetable, or recipe once a week. Contact us to get some seeds and see what food you can grow right in your backyard. Check out our Homesteaders Hub for events and classes. We grow together by sharing what we learn with others! Click here to access our list of resources!
VOLUNTEER
Do you share in having a calling, purpose or drive to re-green the desert and increase the capacity of life for all? If that sounds like you, then please inquire more about being a Seed Ambassador for your community. This important volunteer-based role would be responsible for sharing seeds with neighbors and others in their community, inspiring, teaching and helping people plant those seeds, grow and harvest food. The backyard gardener can play a huge role in seed saving and increasing seed diversity. By encouraging people to save seeds and to share a portion of those seeds with others in their community, we hope to reach as many people as possible with the ultimate goal of strengthening the resiliency of our local communities. If you are ready to get involved or know more, please fill out this form.
