Success Stories

Garden City Harvest’s Youth Farm, started in 2010. The Youth Farm employs teens, mainly from the adjacent Youth Homes’ youth guidance home, providing not only a job, but also life skills, opportunities for community engagement, and empowerment through agriculture.

In 2009, Metro Atlanta Urban Farm (MAUF) was founded to be used as a teaching tool, economic empowerment zone, and as a food production site for the southwest Metropolitan Atlanta area.

Plant it Forward is an organization that trains and certifies refugee farmers and distributes their produce to local markets.

Sole Food Street Farms transforms acres of vacant and contaminated urban land into street farms that grow artisan-quality fruits and vegetables while employing the poor and homeless, the drug-addicted, and the mentally ill.

Learn about one of the longest running farms with a social mission serving those facing homelessness.

The Wasatch Community Gardens Green Phoenix Farm employs women facing homelessness, helping to restore their sense of personal power while supporting them as they work to achieve their goals.