Please enjoy our Sowing AgriCULTURE film, and letter from our Executive Director Katie Dwyer, for a glimpse into the personal stories contributing to Wasatch Community Gardens' vision for the future.
Leave your personal handprint in the soil of our community with a donation that grows our collective impact!
Letter from our Executive Director
Dear friends,
Food is powerful and universal. Food brings us together. For 36 years, Wasatch Community Gardens (WCG) has grown food and gardens to foster community connection. With widespread support and collaboration, WCG doesn’t just grow vegetables—we grow unity within commUNITY and sow culture within agriCULTURE. YOU are the essential ingredient that fuels our recipe for impact!
WCG is in a stage of profound growth in impact as we actively address barriers to food access, stewarding productive green space, programs, and resources. As we approach year 4 of our ambitious 5-Year Growth Plan, your donations enable us to deliver immediate community impact in our pursuit of healthy food access for all. Indeed, it has been a busy 2025 across our six programs!
- Our Job Training Program’s Green Team completed its first full growing season at City Farm on 1300 South, growing thousands of pounds of food for low-income families and individuals who might otherwise be nutrition-insecure.
- Our Community Garden Program opened a new garden in Rose Park in partnership with Rose Park Neighborhood Center and Salt Lake City—the 19th site under WCG management.
- Our Youth & School Garden Program is now offering sliding scale camp fees (including free admission for extremely low-income families) to increase the financial accessibility of our program.
- Our Advocacy & Justice Program kicked off an accessibility audit of all WCG-managed growing spaces to ensure that our physical spaces support healthy food access for all.
- Our Education Program diversified its offerings through new instructors and topics and launched new initiatives including dry farming research, expanding access to agricultural knowledge.
- Our Volunteer Program engaged groups and individuals in more diverse ways than ever before.
If you have already supported these programs this year - THANK YOU! Growing your impact with a year-end gift is an investment in this life-changing work toward food equity. Looking ahead to 2026, with your support we will fervently continue to support community-led food sovereignty, particularly within communities that have faced systemic barriers to healthy food options:
- WCG will launch a new Farm Incubator Program to address barriers—such as limited access to affordable land, hands-on experience, and practical education—preventing many aspiring farmers from sustaining a livelihood in agriculture. This program will offer farmers the chance to steward parcels of land, build skills, and contribute to a stronger local food system.
- After a collaborative site design process conducted with key stakeholders, WCG will break ground on its only permanent farm site—the Farm Hub on Utah Street in Glendale—to serve not only as a home for our new Farm Incubator Program, but as a broader educational agriculture space on Salt Lake City’s west side.
You are the Special Ingredient in our Recipe for Healthy Food Systems
WCG's programs and impacts are not guaranteed or secured by any single funding source; they rely on the dedicated investment of people like you. Since 1989, the main ingredient in WCG’s “recipe” for impact has been the very community we serve: thousands of people across Salt Lake County (and beyond!) digging in and growing with our organization - from community garden plots to Plant Sale seedlings to monetary donations. Your contribution is critical to vaulting WCG to a new level of operation to meet ever-increasing community demand for productive green space, healthy food and connection.
I personally invite you to GROW with WCG this year by deepening your support today.
If you believe in building a stronger local food system and in the power of food and community, please join us or deepen your support in one or more of these ways:
- Increase your giving: If you are a current supporter, an extra $5 or $10 a month, or a $50 (or other meaningful) bump to your one-time gift, ensures we can keep pace with growing demand and costs.
- Give for the first time: Welcome! A gift of any amount establishes you as a vital partner in local food security. A $75 first-time gift could provide a garden bed for a new community gardener.
- Become a monthly donor: GROW with us consistently by becoming a perennial monthly donor. This reliable funding source helps us plan for long-term impact.
Please visit wasatchgardens.org/donate to invest in your community with a donation today! You’re helping us cultivate a healthier, more equitable future by preserving productive green space and creating new opportunities for growers (like Carrie) and local communities to thrive.
“[WCG’s program] helped me believe in myself again, love myself again…I wish there would be more programs like this throughout the state!”
- Carrie, a farm-based Job Training Program alumna, also known as “Farmily,” who now has her own small farm business
Let’s grow together!
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 Katie Dwyer Executive Director Wasatch Community Gardens |