Christopher Harms's Contact Details

Christopher Harms's Company Details

Giving Gardens

White Bear Lake, MN, US • 5 - 9 Employees
Non-Profit

Giving Gardens is a nonprofit established in 2017 and based in White Bear Lake, MN that seeks to build community awareness of local food insecurity, bringing to light the numerous barriers that many of our neighbors face on a daily basis in accessing fresh, locally grown produce. We build local sustainability through neighbors growing produce to be donated to neighbors in need of access to healthy food options, partnering with our local food shelves, senior programs, and schools as recipients our our produce harvested. Giving Gardens envisions a world:"where healthy communities find definition in generosity, respect, and dignity; and where equal food access is achieved by human action inspiring awareness and education through peace and compassion."Mission Statement:Increase access to fresh local produce and inspire community action through• Placing raised bed gardens with volunteer hosts• Creating neighbor-to-neighbor connections and community conversation• Personal donations of the produce• Inspiring education of all people, with specific focus on our children, the growers of tomorrow. How we work:We offer people a direct, hands-on way to increase fresh food access - whether for themselves or their neighbor's. Giving Gardens provides the bed, seeds, dirt/compost mix, and delivery & installation completely free to the volunteer, with the only expectation that a majority (51% or more) be donated to a local food shelf. Giving Gardens is fiscally sponsored by the Greater White Bear Lake Community Foundation.Giving Gardens currently operates out of White Bear Lake, Minnesota and currently services the White Bear Lake area and surrounding communities to include (but not limited to) White Bear Lake, White Bear Township, Mahtomedi, Shoreview, Vadnais Heights, and Hugo.