We're breaking 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 for the next ten months 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.
Our overall Campus fundraising goal is $6.2 million and we have successfully raised $5.3 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 $900,000 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.
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.
