Located next to our existing Grateful Tomato Garden at 629 E 800 S in Salt Lake City, the future Wasatch Community Gardens’ Campus will provide a welcoming and inspiring place where community members can learn, share, and connect with each other through a shared love of gardening and healthy food.
Our overall Campus fundraising goal is $6.2 million.
We’ve had a flurry of fundraising activity for the new Wasatch Community Gardens’ Campus project over the past several months. We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Alternative Visions Fund who gave us a challenge to raise up to $2 million in just six months, promising to match every dollar raised. That is a big mountain to climb for an organization with an annual budget that's half that. Thanks to you, our amazing community of supporters, we raised over $1,850,000 and they gave us a short extension to March 1, 2020 to help us get to the finish line on the full match. We've had 345 individuals and foundations contribute anywhere from $5 to $500,000 to this exciting and transformative project. We have a total of $1,250,000 left to raise to get to our total campaign goal of $6,200,000. We're eager to get the shovels in the dirt to break ground this summer. It's happening, folks and we couldn't be more excited.
People are hungry for more opportunities to grow, eat, prepare, and share fresh, healthy food. Help bring this community asset to fruition. It’s going to take a village, and we hope that you will be a part of it.
The disconnect between people and their food has never been wider, and our increasingly industrialized food system continues to cause environmental and human health problems. The Wasatch Community Gardens' Campus will be a place where children, adults, and families can learn about where food comes from and connect with each other over one of our most basic needs: healthy food.
As of 2019, Wasatch Community Gardens supports:
Wasatch Community Gardens is positioned to meet the increasing demand for garden-based education in our community, but we need expanded facilities to meet that need.
The Wasatch Community Gardens' Campus will transform a 1.2-acre property in the heart of Salt Lake’s dense and dynamic Central City neighborhood into a community resource dedicated to urban agriculture, community building, education, and stewardship.
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The new Campus will enable Wasatch Community Gardens to serve a larger, more diverse population, and solidify its presence as a community-builder in Salt Lake.
