Operation No Food Gap

01/07/2026

From abandoned lots to thriving community gardens! 🌱

We're so excited to share two incredible projects that came to life in 2025 at Inlet Grove Community High School and Azure Estates!

At Inlet Grove, students are getting hands-on experience growing food for their culinary classes, helping stock the school food pantry, and enjoying a beautiful new space where they can relax and learn about agriculture. The garden club is already growing strong! The mural there celebrates all the different paths and disciplines students are pursuing—it's amazing!

Azure Estates (a low-income residential property with a 6-year waiting list!) has turned a once-forgotten space into a beautiful garden where neighbors of all ages and backgrounds come together to grow culturally meaningful foods. The community mural represents the connection and unity that makes this property special.

Huge shoutout to our friend Christian Romero and his team at buggies who made multiple trips from Miami to help make this happen! 🙌 And to artists Manley Jerome and Dominick Debasse for creating these stunning murals AND involving students in the process.

We're forever grateful to our partners who make this work possible: Walmart, American Heart Association, North Palm Beach Democratic Club, Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin County, and Big Green—thank you for believing in this mission!

Special appreciation to Mayor Douglas Alexander Lawson and Councilperson Shirley D. Lanier - Riviera Beach City Council, District 3 of Riviera Beach for allowing us to be part of the solution to food insecurity in your city. And to Eileen Bergman and Devin Krauss for your continued support in improving food access across Palm Beach County.

When communities come together, beautiful things happen. These gardens are proof that fresh food + beautification = spaces people truly love and use!

2025 has been a year of mission accomplishments and countless lives changed. Here's to growing more gardens, more connections, and more access to fresh food! 🌻🥬🍅

12/01/2025

Operation No Food Gap

Healthy cooking.

12/01/2025

🌱 From Derelict Spaces to Community Kitchens: Where Food Justice Meets Education

At Operation No Food Gap, we believe closing the food gap requires more than just growing food—it requires growing knowledge, skills, and confidence in our communities.

These images capture what we're most proud of: young people learning not just where their food comes from, but what to do with it. From outdoor cooking demonstrations at our transformed garden sites to hands-on culinary workshops in school kitchens, we're empowering the next generation with skills that last a lifetime.

Our approach is two-fold:
🌿 Transforming derelict spaces into thriving food oases and multipurpose community hubs
👨‍🍳 Teaching culinary arts in schools and hosting workshops at our garden sites for residents of all ages

When students harvest fresh produce from our gardens and then learn to prepare a nutritious meal with it the same day, something powerful happens. They don't just see food differently—they see their own potential differently.

This is community impact in action. This is what it looks like when access to fresh food meets access to education. This is how we build food security that lasts.

Thank you to every educator, volunteer, and community partner making this work possible. Together, we're not just feeding our community—we're nourishing its future.

11/14/2025

🌴Palm trees on one side. Tech giants on the other.

In the middle lies devastation.

How can this be true?

You can stand in Riviera Beach, look left and see Singer Island, look right and see West Palm Beach.

There’s wealth. There’s beauty.

And yet, in between those views, entire neighborhoods are still fighting for basic access to fresh, nutritious food.

In Palm Beach County, zip code is still one of the strongest predictors of health. Cities like Riviera Beach carry higher rates of diabetes, heart disease, and diet-related illness—not because people don’t care about their health, but because the systems around them make healthy choices the hardest ones to reach.

✅That’s why E-RoadMap’s work in Riviera Beach starts with two pillars: youth and dignity.

When children and teens learn what food is doing to their bodies, how ultra-processed diets drive health disparities, and how to grow their own produce, they’re not just gardening—they’re building community resilience. They’re interrupting a cycle that has taken far too many loved ones, far too soon.

🔨But education alone isn’t enough. Infrastructure matters.

The HydroHUB model is designed as a climate-resilient indoor growing system that uses water instead of soil and can infuse up to 52,000 pounds of organic produce into the local supply chain each year. Pair that with raised beds and home grow kits, and you start to see a different map of Riviera Beach: one where fresh food is grown in the same neighborhoods that have historically been left out.

Through our partnership with Big Green, residents now have 250 raised beds and 1,000 grow kits in their own hands.

✊🏽That’s not charity—it’s food sovereignty. It’s neighbors stepping outside to see small green gardens where there used to be only concrete, and realizing they have more control over their health than the system ever led them to believe.

Because in food-insecure communities, the issue isn’t just access.

📌It’s dignity.

No one’s financial situation should give others the right to say, “This is all you get, and this is how you get it.”

The future of Riviera Beach can be a food forest, not a food desert: people flourishing, food growing, and fewer health disparities driving families into crisis.

This video captures what that transformation looks like on the ground—through the voices and faces of the community itself.

If you work in food security, climate resilience, or health equity, or if you simply care about what’s possible when local infrastructure and community power come together, this is a story worth watching and sharing. 🌱

🙏🏽 Grateful to oBig Green, Private Donors, City of Riviera, Council chairperson Shirley Lanier, the American Heart Association and numerous stakeholders for allowing us to deliver on a vision to create lasting generational change- not just a one off program. Special thank you to the film festivals showcasing our work.

The food system is changing before our eyes, and Big Green believes in the power of community to shape the system we want to see.In our ongoing Powered By Co...

08/14/2024

Come out and celebrate August at the Riviera Beach Urban Farm. More on the horizon for E-Roadmap Corporation!

So much has happened to allow us to serve on an even larger scale.
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12/22/2022

For those following our story, we have wanted to create a multipurpose space that would allow an extension of educational programs to be administered outside. The long wait is over!

JOIN US on Jan. 21, 2023, for the grand opening of the JFK Outdoor Culinary and Multi-purpose Space!

You will be amazed at how we are tackling food insecurity and mental health in Riviera Beach, Florida.

​RSVP here: https://GrandOpeningJFK.eventbrite.com



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12/16/2022

Volunteer with us at the Riviera Beach Urban Farm and Garden! We're there on Saturdays at 7:30-10AM.

Complete the volunteer registration form here
https://eroadmapcorporation.dm.networkforgood.com/forms/volunteer-registration-form

12/02/2022

We had a lot of fun at the Cooking Demo at the Riviera Beach Urban Farm! In case you missed it, scan the QR Code to get the recipes. Let us know what recipes you'd be interested in learning at a cooking demo!

Chef CesArt

12/01/2022

In celebration of International Volunteer Day, we'll be hosting a stretch workshop at the Riviera Beach Urban Farm and Garden this Saturday! There'll be giveaways, prizes, and food!



Register here https://eroadmapcorporation.dm.networkforgood.com/forms/volunteer-day-event-registration

Volunteer Florida Volunteers of America of Florida

11/29/2022

Come sip and shop with Beautycounter and Kendra Scott at the Gardens Mall this Friday!

11/01/2022

10/18/2022

Save the Date! We'll be hosting our 2nd Annual Pumpkin Patch and Halloween Extravaganza on October 30 (4-8pm). We'll have a lot of fun activities and treats!

See you there!

Feel free to register here https://eroadmapcorporation.dm.networkforgood.com/forms/event-registration-pumpkin-patch-october-2022