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WHERE WE GROW FOR GOOD
The Indigenous Community Garden
Méku! Members of the Virginia Tech Indigenous Community Garden work in this space to nurture and tend to heirloom crops and seeds tied to their communities’ traditional ecological knowledge. The garden is meant to be dedicated to the food systems restoration of Yesáh (Tutelo-Saponi) communities, including the Monacan Indian Nation
(PLEASE SPECIFY donation is for the indigenous garden when donation)
Eastern Woodlands Revitalization
We are an ever-growing group of intertribal citizens who want to change the way our communities are talked about now and in the future. Our family, friends, and the citizens of the various tribal communities we engage with express nothing but support and the desire to see us have continued success. Our success is tied directly to the people, and what we do now affects the next 7 generations.
Ujamaa Seeds
Formed in 2021, UJAMAA SEEDS is the entrepreneurial program of the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance (UCFA). UCFA is a program of STEAM ONWARD, Inc., a 501c3 non-profit organization, organized in the state of Maryland.
The mission of UCFA is to increase diversity in the $15 billion dollar U.S. seed industry. We are committed to providing increased opportunities and support for growers from historically marginalized communities in the area of seed farming. To this end, the UCFA is working to bridge the gap between prospective BIPOC seed growers and seed companies.
WHY "UJAMAA"?
Ujamaa, a Swahili word, literally means 'extended family'. As the fourth principle of Kwanzaa, ujamaa means 'cooperative economics'. This principle tasks us to build our own businesses, and control the economics of our communities.
Serenity Solidarity Community
Serenity Solidarity has obtained land on occupied Stockbridge-Munsee, Mohican Nation land near so-called Albany, NY. This land will be home to formerly homeless families and individuals, and activists who are working together to help meet their needs.
7 Directions of Service
7 Directions of Service (7DS) was founded by Indigenous activists Crystal Cavalier-Keck and Jason Crazy Bear Keck on Crystal's ancestral Occaneechi-Saponi lands, the rural Piedmont region of North Carolina. 7 Directions began as a culture class and youth program, and has grown into a regional grassroots mobilization platform. Everything changed when Crystal and Jason learned that a pipeline was slated to go through their backyard and they began dedicating their lives to resisting, building coalitions and creating campaigns to support the working-class and farming families located along the proposed route. Today, the pipeline is on its last breath.
Project B.L.A.C.C.
Petersburg League of Urban Growers (P.L.U.G.) 🔌
We strive to inform our community about the benefits of sustainable farming practices,responsible resource management,& the importance of food justice
Richmond Food Rescue US
Fill plates. Not landfills.
Food waste remains one of the top solutions to global warming. Currently, food waste contributes 8 percent of total global greenhouse gas emissions.
Using our web-based app, we engage volunteers to transfer fresh food surpluses from local businesses to social service agencies serving the food insecure.
Ira Wallace Seed School
The Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance (UCFA), a program of the nonprofit STEAM ONWARD , is launching year two of the Ira Wallace Seed School —a living tribute to our founding granny, visionary elder, and master seedswoman, Ira Wallace. This school was created to equip BIPOC growers with the practical skills and powerful knowledge needed to lead in the seed sovereignty movement.
From hands-on seed saving and breeding to justice-rooted dialogue and community resilience, our curriculum empowers a new generation of seed stewards to carry forward ancestral agricultural traditions with integrity and care. But we can’t do this without you.
We’re raising funds to ensure tuition is never a barrier for aspiring seed stewards from historically marginalized communities. Every dollar you give helps us provide full and partial scholarships for BIPOC growers ready to carry Ira Wallace’s legacy forward. Tuition is $650 for our 9 month course, Introduction to Ethical Seed Breeding. In addition we are offering a mini course for $300 entitled Seed Ethics 2025.
Approximately half of the students enrolled in these courses are only able to pay partial tuition. Your donation will help fund full and partial scholarships so that tuition is never a barrier for aspiring seed stewards.
Your gift will help us:
- Train and support new seed keepers from BIPOC communities,
- Pay the instructor fees for our nationally and internationally renowned seed breeeders and seed stewards,
- Uplift traditional and ecological farming knowledge, and
- Cultivate leadership rooted in food justice, sustainability, and healing.
Join us in growing a future rooted in biodiversity, food sovereignty, and intergenerational knowledge.
Community Roots - Northside RVA
Community Roots Garden is not a victory garden but a FREEDOM garden! Free food to free the people of Brookland Park who live in a food desert, Freedom to have organic food without the high prices at every grocery store, Freedom to grow what you want to eat... we need to clear more space of the ever invasive kudzu because we are putting in a greenhouse so we can grow all year long, and plant fruit trees and berry bushes as well.
Rappahannock Tribe Sovereignty Garden
Richmond Satellite will produce fresh produce for the Community Fridge Program RVA Fridges. Richmond Satellite Urban Farm is stewarded by lead farmer & U of R Student by Natalie Hawley. Richmond Satellite will produce fresh produce for the Community Fridge Program RVA Fridges. Providing access to fresh food is key.
RVA Community Fridges
FREE FOOD! COMIDA GRATIS! RVA Community Fridges
Upper Mattaponi Indian Nation
The Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe is centered in King William County. The Tribe's community base still resides in the traditional lands of Tsenacomacah. What's something exciting your business offers? Say it here.
Hampton Roads Urban Agriculture
Hampton Roads Urban Agriculture
Our Mission: Empowering food insecure communities to create and maintain access to healthy food.
Our Vision: Accessible, equitable and affordable healthy food for those in food insecure communities
Charlottesville Food Not Bombs
Charlottesville Food Not Bombs features many dedicated volunteers who collect perishable foods and pantry items that would otherwise go to waste from grocery stores, bakeries, and farmers markets and gives them back to the community. We strive to share food, skills, ideas, and conversation.
Richmond Food Not Bombs
Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer global movement that shares free vegetarian and vegan meals as a protest against war and poverty. Our ideology is corporate and government priorities are skewed. There is no need to allow hunger to persist in the midst of abundance. Each chapter collects surplus food that would otherwise go to waste from grocery stores, bakeries, markets, and local farmers. Then we prepare community meals which are served for free to anyone who wants to eat. We do not pass judgment about food access or poverty levels
Project B.L.A.C.C.
Concerned Citizens of Charles City County (C5) works to inform and educate county residents of issues facing the county. This group was originally formed in response to the multiple power plants proposed for the county--with limited involvement from residents.
C5 strives to become a source of empowerment for the community within the environmental sector and economic community base for the county.
Casa Alma
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Casa Alma is a Catholic Worker community and all-volunteer non-profit located on .6 acres in a diverse neighborhood in the city of Charlottesville. We host a community house for resident volunteers and two houses of hospitality for homeless and low-income families. Our guests are typically African-American or Latina single parent families who live onsite for up to two years. Guests leverage a more stable future by paying down debt and saving funds for future housing.
Surrounding the houses, we cultivate a shared urban homestead which includes extensive gardens, a mini-orchard, berry patch, rainwater catchment, a flock of laying chickens, miniature dairy goats, and honeybees. We garden and care for backyard animals not only to provide healthy food for guest families and resident volunteers, but also to inspire people to connect to the abundance of the land.
Commonfield Free Fridge
In February 2023, Visible Records relocated Charlottesville’s Little Free Fridge to the parking lot in front of Visible Records. This free fridge and pantry space is freely accessible 24/7 — everyone is welcome to take what they need, and leave what they don’t.