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Let’s Dig In! 

We've broken ground! After three years of working through design, we're putting our shovels in the earth to create our Wasatch Community Gardens' Campus! Excuse our dust while we create this space that's intended to be a physical embodiment of our mission of empowering people to grow and eat healthy, organic, local food.

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.

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The Goal

Our overall Campus fundraising goal is $6.2 million and we have successfully raised $5.7 million towards that and are in the final push.

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Alternative Visions Fund who gave us a challenge to raise $2 million in just eight months, promising to match every dollar raised. Thanks to you, our amazing community of supporters, we did it!! We've had nearly 400 individuals and foundations contribute anywhere from $5 to $500,000 to this exciting and transformative project. We are now working to raise the final $500,000 to reach our overall goal of $6.2 million. Because of this truly extraordinary show of community support, we are able to break ground on this game changing project. It's happening, folks and we couldn't be more excited.

We need YOUR help to make this happen. 

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.

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Why This Matters

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.

In 2020, Wasatch Community Gardens supports:

  • 16 community gardens serving nearly 500 households, including 50 refugee families through our partnership with the International Rescue Committee.
  • Garden-based learning for children through our Youth and School Garden Programs that pivoted to "in a Box" offerings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Workshops and online educational opportunities aimed at empowering people to grow and eat fresh, healthy food for hundreds of community members.

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.

Dig In with WCG and Donate Now!

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An Urban Hub to Create Connections

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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. 

Features:

  • Expanded youth education gardens
  • Indoor education spaces, including a classroom and kitchen, for year-round learning
  • ADA accessible and inclusive
  • Capacity for 25% more workshops annually
  • Additional demonstration gardens
  • Plots for rent in the historic Grateful Tomato Garden community garden
  • Rentable indoor/outdoor event space
  • Residential 8-unit net zero energy building designed to meet 70% area median income levels

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.

Download the full campaign brochure

Our Impact

Kay Brown & Ellen Bloedel

“We enjoy the one-on-one interaction with the instructor, and we learn from the other gardeners, too – their questions and perspectives are so helpful. Being able to touch the soil, to be present in the garden, breathing it in, has helped us be better gardeners.”

Brecken Hunter

“It was really fun to start making the garden and figure out what to grow. I love gardening and while lots of people don’t like the dirt, it doesn’t really get you too dirty, it’s really fun, and you get delicious food!”

Zana Jokic

“In the gardens, I have met at least 20 different nationalities and we communicate one language of gardening and share our different experience with gardening.”

Marybeth Janerich

“It gives me goosebumps to hear stories of gardening success from community members and to see their excitement at growing and eating garden fresh food. The empowerment I see in people as they achieve success in their gardens, whatever the size, is what motivates me every day.”

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