Local Food Systems

Located in the heart of Albuquerque, Growing Awareness Urban Farm is a micro-enterprise of East Central Ministries. Currently the farm includes a nursery that specializes in locally grown vegetables, a workshop that produces clay pots used in irrigation, an apiary, a chicken coop, demonstration and community gardens, a playground with edible landscaping, a composting operation and a small urban farm store.  All profits from sales go directly back into the community through East Central Ministries’ programs to provide work to needy families, mentoring and teaching for young people, their community health clinic, and their neighborhood food and housing programs. 

The mission of the Albuquerque Urban Farms and Gardens Cooperative is to help build gardens and urban farms of any scale throughout the City of Albuquerque. The cooperative is a collection of gardening and urban farm communities that have come together to support each other and to educate the community on self-sustaining gardening. They do so through network parties, seed sharing and farmers markets.

Jacksonville Farmers Market is Florida’s oldest farmers market, founded in 1938. It features over 200 farmers and vendors at a market that is open from dawn to dusk, 365 days a year. The market makes available the freshest produce from North Florida or South Georgia, but also features unique produce from across the country and imported from overseas.

The Argyle Area Community Garden was founded in May 2009 as a member-operated organic vegetable garden to support a healthier and better-educated community. Though the garden is not yet complete, it plans to educate the local youth through field trips and hands-on experience, as well as volunteer programs for high school students.