G.I.V.E.
Gardens Inspiring Volunteerism and Education
Why G.I.V.E.?
In the 2018-19 season, we planted over 20 gardens! For the 2019 season, we want to plant over 40- so we need your support! Cash is our biggest shortfall, and we'd love to have you come out to help build! Email Chantelle to volunteer!
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), a "food desert" is an area in the United States with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, particularly an area composed of predominantly low-income neighborhoods and communities. A G.I.V.E. Garden supplements a family or individual's diet with fresh vegetables and herbs and encourages fresh air and gardening exercise.
G.I.V.E. gardens began in April 2009 when a family living in a food desert wanted Urban Oasis to teach them how to make a food garden. The mother had a new baby on the way, the father was working long hours in retail, and the 4-year-old daughter was very excited to grow vegetables to eat. Their learning time was limited, and instead of teaching with just words and diagrams, we decided the best way to learn was by practice.
With a handful of volunteers and donated materials, the first G.I.V.E. garden was planted with a lot of hands-on learning for the recipient family.
Since the first G.I.V.E. garden was planted, many more have arisen, teaching recipients who then inspire others and teach their neighbors to make their own gardens (often without our help). Hundreds of volunteer hours have been donated from people with a lot of expertise (Master Gardeners) to people with no experience.
Can you or your business sponsor an entire home garden for $300? Want to help volunteer and build with us? Contact us to find out how! Make a donation to support our programs with the Paypal button above!
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), a "food desert" is an area in the United States with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, particularly an area composed of predominantly low-income neighborhoods and communities. A G.I.V.E. Garden supplements a family or individual's diet with fresh vegetables and herbs and encourages fresh air and gardening exercise.
G.I.V.E. gardens began in April 2009 when a family living in a food desert wanted Urban Oasis to teach them how to make a food garden. The mother had a new baby on the way, the father was working long hours in retail, and the 4-year-old daughter was very excited to grow vegetables to eat. Their learning time was limited, and instead of teaching with just words and diagrams, we decided the best way to learn was by practice.
With a handful of volunteers and donated materials, the first G.I.V.E. garden was planted with a lot of hands-on learning for the recipient family.
Since the first G.I.V.E. garden was planted, many more have arisen, teaching recipients who then inspire others and teach their neighbors to make their own gardens (often without our help). Hundreds of volunteer hours have been donated from people with a lot of expertise (Master Gardeners) to people with no experience.
Can you or your business sponsor an entire home garden for $300? Want to help volunteer and build with us? Contact us to find out how! Make a donation to support our programs with the Paypal button above!
We also encourage you to donate to help build a new non-profit in Miami: Grow Roots Miami. Check out their great GoFundMe video here and donate!
This grew out of Finca Morada and Urban Oasis Project as an independent project that we are more than happy to support. We are shifting some of the money you donated for building GIVE Gardens to supporting their efforts, acting as fiscal sponsors as they establish their legal entity, and of course, supporting their efforts to raise more funds for more gardens! We've added a new donation option on Localline as well so you can expressly support their project.
More about them:
"We are committed to assisting families in need, hardest hit by Covid-19, living in “food deserts,” especially those historically and continuously marginalized & harmed by systemic injustice, such as Black, indigenous, people of color, queer, trans, & people with disabilities."
"We’re a non-profit collaboration between Finca Morada, Plant Philosophy, & Urban Oasis Project - an initiative to build free edible gardens & food forests for Miami families living in food deserts, most harmed by systemic injustice & Covid-19.
We are named Grow Roots because we believe gardening & eating real local food connects us to our cultural roots of our ancestors, to our roots as nature beings of this earth and builds rooted connections to each other as a community!
Follow us on Instagram! @growrootsmiami
This grew out of Finca Morada and Urban Oasis Project as an independent project that we are more than happy to support. We are shifting some of the money you donated for building GIVE Gardens to supporting their efforts, acting as fiscal sponsors as they establish their legal entity, and of course, supporting their efforts to raise more funds for more gardens! We've added a new donation option on Localline as well so you can expressly support their project.
More about them:
"We are committed to assisting families in need, hardest hit by Covid-19, living in “food deserts,” especially those historically and continuously marginalized & harmed by systemic injustice, such as Black, indigenous, people of color, queer, trans, & people with disabilities."
"We’re a non-profit collaboration between Finca Morada, Plant Philosophy, & Urban Oasis Project - an initiative to build free edible gardens & food forests for Miami families living in food deserts, most harmed by systemic injustice & Covid-19.
We are named Grow Roots because we believe gardening & eating real local food connects us to our cultural roots of our ancestors, to our roots as nature beings of this earth and builds rooted connections to each other as a community!
Follow us on Instagram! @growrootsmiami
