Gainesville Giving Garden

Gainesville Giving Garden As of October 1st, 2025, we are a Working Food Farm! Volunteer Days are Thursdays from 4:30pm-6:30pm beginning February 15th.

The Giving Garden builds food sovereignty in Alachua County by donating its organic produce to community members experiencing food insecurity, and by providing a safe space for horticulture education. Every Thursday, join us to help with farm work at any point until 6:30pm. No gardening experience is necessary - all ages are welcome! After Day Light Savings (mid-March) we will shift volunteering h

ours to 5:30pm-7:30pm on Thursday evenings. Join us every Thursday evening until mid June, when our farming season comes to a close for the summer! Quality food shouldn’t be exclusive to a specific income bracket. We believe that eating local, choosing organic, and supporting sustainable is key to a better world -- one in which people and the environment are healthy, happy, and connected. Access to organic, fresh produce should be a right, not a privilege. As a donation farm, we grow and donate our fresh food to those without access. As an education farm, we uplift the future change-makers of our food system in an effort to achieve an equitable local food community. The Giving Garden is a 501c3 tax-exempt organization.

12/08/2025

Free fresh food at our urban farm today, Monday, 12/8, from 4:30-6pm. We’re located at 225 NW 12th Ave, GNV FL 32601. If you are in need of greens, we have mustards, collards and kale available for donation this evening. 💚

Winter in north Florida marks an abundant time in our growing season! While the majority of the country goes into hibern...
12/06/2025

Winter in north Florida marks an abundant time in our growing season! While the majority of the country goes into hibernation, Gainesville’s growth flourishes. At our urban farm, we’ve built soil for roughly five years — applying local compost, worm p**p, cover crops, home-grown fertilizers (sunflower and pea leaves!) and our crops now couldn’t be happier! This season we’re enjoying fantastic crop growth, without needing to do any pest management, or without needing to apply many soil amendments. When the soil is happy and you use local seeds from — your job as a gardener becomes a whole lot easier, and your harvest is much heavier. Here is a photo of our friend and regular volunteer lead, Gina, who just harvested this lovely Napa cabbage from our farm. Time for some kimchi!

At 225 NW 12th Ave in Gainesville, FL, Giving Garden — our urban farm — relies on a steady supply of “browns” to balance...
12/05/2025

At 225 NW 12th Ave in Gainesville, FL, Giving Garden — our urban farm — relies on a steady supply of “browns” to balance the community food scraps dropped into our compost bins. And right now, we’re running low.

🍂 We’re putting out a call for leaves!
If you have bagged or gathered leaves, you can place them in the bin located directly across from our compost bins (shown in the second image of this post). Just swing by anytime and leave your leaves!

Your leaf donations help us build healthier compost, which nourishes the food we grow for our community.

Help us spread the word and fill up our “browns” bin — every handful counts!

Local leader Pastor Duncan leads the Pleasant Street Civil Rights and Cultural Arts Center, a trusted resource in the he...
12/03/2025

Local leader Pastor Duncan leads the Pleasant Street Civil Rights and Cultural Arts Center, a trusted resource in the heart of the Duval neighborhood in East Gainesville. In partnership with their Food Is Medicine Program, our urban farm supplies fresh organic produce on a regular basis to help improve access to nutritious food for their audiences.

This past Monday, we harvested mustard greens, collard greens, kale, and savoy cabbage to stock their community fridges. The Pleasant Street Center is one of many partners who pick up produce from our farm and deliver it directly to neighbors seeking fresh, local food.

If you believe in strengthening food access and hands-on garden education in our community, we invite you to support ’s holiday donation drive. Your gift helps us to nourish families and nurture learning through food.

Follow us at Working Food's page to stay up to date on all farm happenings! This page will be closing down so t...
12/03/2025

Follow us at Working Food's page to stay up to date on all farm happenings! This page will be closing down so that we can streamline our marketing efforts, now that we are: Giving Garden - A Working Food Farm! We are thrilled to be a part of the incredible work that Working Food has offered our community for over 14 years - building an equitable, just & resilient local food system. Now more than ever, it feels that collaboration is essential as we combat food insecurity and uplift our community through fresh food access and our inherently deserved relationship with the living world. We all deserve access to quality food, to land, and to opportunity. As we merge with Working Food, we are already feeling the ripple effects of more people reached, more impact achieved, and more possibilities for creating positive change abound!

Eric of donated his time and talents to capture such lovely photos at last month’s Farm-to-Table Benefit Dinner, which ...
12/01/2025

Eric of donated his time and talents to capture such lovely photos at last month’s Farm-to-Table Benefit Dinner, which was hosted by our generous Grove Street neighbor and community partner, .gnv — wine garden and restaurant. We are so grateful for such giving partners, who care to support our work that is dedicated to uplifting fresh food access. Our urban farm grows and donates its organic produce to anyone in need of fresh food — and this is made possible by people like Eric, our incredible volunteers, the owner of Superette, Maya, Superette’s Chef Ellis and the incredible team at the restaurant.

Thanks to the help of many people volunteering their time and to the guests whose tickets proceeds were direct donations to our nonprofit, we were able to raise impactful donations that go a long way in making our work a sustained reality in Alachua County.

Stay tuned for more photos to come, taken by our talented friend YIK YUI XIE, who donated his time & energy to capture some more incredible shots of the benefit event!

Due to the holiday, we will not be hosting a Volunteer Day today. Our next volunteer opportunity is on Monday from 4-6pm...
11/27/2025

Due to the holiday, we will not be hosting a Volunteer Day today. Our next volunteer opportunity is on Monday from 4-6pm, during which we need extra hands to distribute our fresh food to walk-up produce recipients. Following that, we’ll continue our weekly Thursday evening volunteer days, which run from 4:30-6:30pm. See you then! In the meantime, stay safe, be kind to one another, and find time to slow down & rest!

GROW HUB employs adults with varying abilities — serving as an amazing resource for workforce development, and a great p...
11/24/2025

GROW HUB employs adults with varying abilities — serving as an amazing resource for workforce development, and a great plant nursery! Today, Giving Garden produce was donated to .hub staff and their families. Next, we’re off to deliver fresh greens to the Pleasant Street Cultural Center’s Food is Medicine Program, which distributes fresh food in east Gainesville weekly. It’s an abundant time of the season here! Nature’s bounty provides hope, especially when our larger food systems are failing so many of us.

Shout out to yesterday’s INCREDIBLE crew of volunteers! A group rallied and caravanned to to glean excess produce from ...
11/21/2025

Shout out to yesterday’s INCREDIBLE crew of volunteers! A group rallied and caravanned to to glean excess produce from their fields, washed their harvest, and delivered crops back to the Giving Garden for our food distribution partners to pick up this weekend and early next week. Meanwhile, the remainder of our volunteers held down the fort at the Giving Garden to plant, w**d, and harvest. By the end of the day, we had two refrigerators and a portion of ’s walk-in cooler PACKED with kale, turnips, savoy, green onions, arugula and collards. Tomorrow, the UF Health Shands CMS Pediatric Clinic will distribute produce to patient families in need of fresh food. On Tuesday, the Pleasant Street Civil Rights and Cultural Center’s Food Is Medicine program will distribute the remaining crops to their audiences in east gnv.

Thank you to for coordinating with our crew to direct excess produce to our programming that supports equal, improved fresh food access in our community. You guys rock!

Thank you to Lucia, , a key lead at the Giving Garden, who led the team with gleaning & aggregation at Siembra Farm!

With daylight savings behind us, our Thursday volunteer hours are now 4:30–6pm. Join us at the Giving Garden for communi...
11/14/2025

With daylight savings behind us, our Thursday volunteer hours are now 4:30–6pm. Join us at the Giving Garden for community workdays as we harvest, plant, w**d, and take care of the tasks that keep our farm thriving.

This shared effort helps keep our space welcoming for everyone and ensures we can donate as much fresh food as possible.

No sign-up needed—just come by. If you’re bringing a group of more than five, please schedule ahead so we can plan accordingly.

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225 NW 12th Avenue
Gainesville, FL
32601

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