COVID-19 Response: Food and Neighborhood Connections

We are providing essential services and will continue to safely serve during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Growing Neighbors is growing healthy neighborhoods through urban farming and community development. We arecollaborating with a variety of community partners to equip neighbors to grow and share healthy food and relationships.

Please RSVP at least a day or two prior toscheduled gatherings.

• Serve as a Block Leader: to reach out to local neighbors, collect contact info, help folks get their needs met and share their gifts and resources more effectively

• Little Free Pantries: help fund, build, paint, install, promote, and/or stock these neighborhood pantries to provide 24/7, low-barrier access to food.

• OutdoorCommunity Dinner and Food to-go: Help prep the space or food, welcome guests, clean-up, and/or distribute food to go. Dinner will be served each Tuesday starting 4/13/21.

• Food Delivery and Community Composting via Bicycle: Help promote the program, prepare the supplies, delivermeals, seeds, and plant starts, pick up compostables, or build or manage the community composting systems at our Hub locations.

• Urban Farming each Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30-5:30 (April-October). Meet at SPPC at 5508 N. Alberta St.

• Farming/Gardening opportunitiesare available anytime, including opportunities at 40+ growing spaces. We would love to help you connect with aFarmyard near youto help care for your local neighbors and environment.

• Virtual optionsand options for working from home are also available. See list below.

• Spring-Fall: Sod Cutting, rototilling, and moving compost, soil, and wood chips to gardens in need
• Grant writing, event planning, and other fundraising/development
• Requesting Donations from local businesses
• Building Community Partnerships
• Data Management
• Writing Thank You Notes
• Organizing Volunteers
• Website design and data entry
• Managing communications via email/website contacts
• Preparing garden designs, planting schedules, communication between volunteers
• Planning and leading neighbor gatherings
• Bicycle generator/battery charger and produce delivery trailer.
• Building projects (compost bins, chicken coops, yard signs, wash stations, pantries, greenhouses, raised beds)

Find more info about the Growing Neighbors movement atwww.growingneighbors.org/.