project leader
Christopher P
location
3573 Southern Avenue
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the project

GrowMemphis provides funding and training for neighborhood residents who want to create and sustain community gardens or urban farms in their neighborhoods. Each garden is as unique as the neighborhood in which it is found. Gardens eliminate blight, provide fresh, healthy food, create a safe space for community building, and often provide economic opportunity for neighborhoods.

Annually, GrowMemphis solicits applications from neighborhood residents and institutions and prioritizes them based on need and community leadership. Each garden that is funded receives all of the tools, supplies, and infrastructure it needs to get started. After receiving funding, each new partner garden goes through our “Community Gardening 101” training, which helps new gardeners feel comfortable with organic horticulture. More importantly, this training prepares gardeners to do the community work that makes a community garden successful. 

the steps

First, GrowMemphis solicits applications from neighborhood residents who have a project idea.

Next, our staff prioritize applications based on community need and neighborhood leadership.

Once projects are selected, new gardeners go through Community Gardening 101, a training program designed to train new gardeners in organic horticulture as well as the community-based skills they need to run a successful garden or farm. This training also helps gardeners create a successful project design that best meets the needs of their neighborhoods

After training, GrowMemphis helps new gardeners purchase supplies and infrastructure and works with them to plan a successful ground-breaking celebration.

Finally, partner gardens continue to receive technical assistance, training, seeds and starter plants to ensure their projects continue to be successful.

why we're doing it

Community gardening projects address a variety of community issues in creative ways, and the impact of each garden is unique to the neighborhood in which it is found. These projects not only eliminate vacant, blighted property and provide healthy, fresh food to neighborhood residents, but they also build community pride and create a safe space for community building. As neighborhoods engage in these projects, it is our hope that the gardens become a tool for broader community engagement around issues of environmental injustice, food insecurity, crime, and poverty. Community gardens cannot solve these problems, but they can serve as the catalyst for residents to take back ownership of their communities.

budget

Tools

Garden Rake x 16- $176
Leaf Rake x 8- $64
Pitchfork x 8- $200
Bedding Fork x 8- $352
Hoe x 16 - $224
Wheelbarrow- $400
Hand trowel  x 24 - $144
Spade x 16 - $240
Flat Shovel x 8 - $240
Garden Clippers x 8- $280
Hose x 16- $520
Gloves - $120
Sprinkler x 16- $240

Infrastructure

Cinderblocks (Raised beds) - $6800
Soil Mixture- $4800
Misc (Paint/Rebarb)- $1200
Compost bins- $800

Total= $20,000

*note- costs vary garden to garden due to the uniqueness of each project. This represents an average cost for 8 gardens



SUBTOTAL = $20,000
ioby Platform Fee  $35
3rd Party Credit Card Processing Fee (3%) $600
TOTAL TO RAISE = $20,635


RAISED = $2,583
ioby Platform Fee  $35
3rd Party Credit Card Processing Fee (3%) $74
TOTAL TO DISBURSE = $2,474

Budget Update, 3/27/2014

Tools

Garden Rake - 11
Leaf Rake x 8- $8
Pitchfork x 8- $25
Bedding Fork x 8- $44
Hoe x 16 – $14
Wheelbarrow- $50
Hand trowel x 24 – $6
Spade  – $15
Flat Shovel - $30
Garden Clippers - $35
Hose -$32.50
Sprinkle- $15

Infrastructure

Raised Beds (Cinderblocks+Soil Mixture)– $2,100
Compost Bins- 50

Misc (paint, rebarb)- 52.50

Total= $2,474

updates

Thank you to our donors!

photos

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donors

  • Shelley & Glen Thomas
  • Tommy P
  • Laura Harris
  • emily reese
  • Lauren & Justin Taylor
  • Chester Kasper
  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous
  • Abby
  • Penelope F.
  • Zoe C.
  • Patrick J.
  • Kenny L.
  • Marie D.
  • Paul Y.
  • Amina A.
  • Tom L.