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Dig in and GROW Healthy Food Access!

From our determined beginning as Wasatch Fish and Gardens to the 36-year-old Wasatch Community Gardens (WCG) of today, commUNITY has remained steadfast at the heart of all we do. WCG’s growth and adaptation in that time has been in direct response to the interests, needs, and ideas from people like you. Whether you have been around since we bid farewell to the fish to focus on Community Gardens or have more recently joined our community, you are an essential ingredient that fuels our recipe for impact!

People enjoying the Rose Park Neighborhood Center (RPNC) Community Garden Grand Opening with garden plots in the foreground.

WCG’s Community Garden Program is one of our longest standing programs, and for me, like many others, it was my introduction to WCG. A then-recent transplant to Salt Lake City from Chicago, I found the community connection in the garden that I so craved in my new home. From the astonishing array of fruits, veggies and flowers to nourish body and mind, to the diversity of life, from insects to birds to my fellow gardeners themselves, the garden brought peace and joy.

Cultivate Joy with your Donation

This is a beautifully common story that has come to life in yet another urban setting with the opening of the Rose Park Neighborhood Center (RPNC) Community Garden. This Green City Growers partnership with Salt Lake City and the Good Samaritan Foundation, is the 19th of these productive, growing spaces managed by WCG across Salt Lake County. In its first growing season, the RPNC Community Garden served 36 households of people from around the world. Two of these families joined us to share their story in our Sowing AgriCULTURE film and we can’t wait to see everything their community grows in the seasons to come!

A mother and daughter tend to their community garden plot.

Growing CommUNITY

"Hoy personalmente puedo decir que es una oportunidad para desconectarse de la rutina diaria. Cuando venimos y estamos allá con las plantas, nos relajamos. Es una oportunidad que nos permite encontrarnos con la naturaleza y separarnos del ruido y del corre-corre diario. En nuestro caso, vivimos en un apartamento y no tenemos un lugar para cultivar; gracias a estos espacios, tuvimos la oportunidad de cosechar nuestros propios vegetales." - Yesenia Ramírez, RPNC Jardinera

"Personally, I can say today that this is an opportunity to disconnect from the daily routine. When we come here and spend time with the plants, we feel relaxed. It is an opportunity that allows us to connect with nature and escape the noise and the daily hustle and bustle. In our case, we live in an apartment and don't have a place to garden; thanks to these spaces, we had the chance to grow our own vegetables." - Yesenia Ramírez, RPCN Gardener

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A group of WCG and RPNC staff and community gardeners hold up their painted hands in front of the RPNC Community Garden.

Sowing AgriCULTURE

This newest garden arose directly in response to the community advocating for their right to grow food. Food is culture and growing food is central to cultural expression, sustaining a sense of belonging, and nourishing healthy lives.

Tia Mitsinikos, WCG’s Partnerships Manager, says it perfectly in the film… "Growing food is such a connective experience with the land and with each other." It is hard to express just how grateful we are for these connections to our community, our partners, our gardeners and other program participants, and to you.

Through all of our six programs, WCG offers something for everyone. With widespread support and collaboration, we don’t just grow vegetables—we grow unity within commUNITY and sow culture within agriCULTURE.

Donate to Healthy Food Access

Your donation contributes to Community Garden Program expenses like these, helping all of our six programs thrive:

$50 funds a full fee waiver for a low to moderate income gardener
$100 purchases cover crop seed for soil health for the season
$250 covers seedlings at a community garden public pick
$500 pays for utilities for one garden for one month
$1,000 provides 50% fee reduction for 50 low to moderate income community gardeners

Learn, Grow, GIVE

In addition to providing affordable access to land to participate in traditional and cultural expression through growing and eating food, our Community Garden Program is developing and distributing our best practices with individuals and local organizations to further expand access to productive green space. Your gift of any amount brings this work to life!

Donate Today!

If you have the capacity to donate, please visit wastchgardens.org/donate to give for the first time, increase the amount of your gift, give in a new way, or make a monthly perennial donation.

Each WCG program is funded by your generosity, and driven by the necessity of healthy food access rooted in agriCULTURE and steeped in culture. Driven by backyard gardeners and local farmers, children and families, neighbors, schools, businesses and volunteers. Driven by you. Thank you for believing in the nourishing power of food and community.

With gratitude,

Katie Dwyer
Executive Director

P.S. As we reflect on year three of our Five-Year Growth Plan, we’re humbled by the countless individuals who have helped us grow into the WCG of today. Please help us grow into the WCG of the future to meet growing demand for healthy food access by making a monthly recurring donation or adding an extra $10 or more to your year-end donation!

Wasatch Community Gardens

629 E 800 S
Salt Lake City, UT 84102

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