The What’s On Your Plate? Project is proud to announce City Rising Farm as our latest recipient program for our Buy-A-Bundle, Give-A-Bundle program. For every bundles (one WOYP? DVD, one WOYP? book, and one stuffed onion toy) purchased through our online store, WOYP? donates an additional bundle to a nonprofit organization dedicated to growing and strengthening our communities through health and agricultural education and outreach. If shoppers want, they can even choose donate the bundle they purchase. But more about City Rising Farm!
City Rising Farm
Our mission is to help people in underserved communities learn to grow fresh local food and build healthy long lasting relationships with each other so they can use those skills and relationships to create opportunities in their own neighborhoods.
We have an amazing team of volunteers and community partners and while it is an all volunteer program now it is our hope to provide employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in the future. Our motto is growing food, relationships and opportunities through urban agriculture education!
What we do!
The first location we are working in is the Hough Neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland. Notorious for the riots of the 1960s some Hough residents felt stigmatized by the perception cast that the community was a haven for drugs and violence. Many people who had only known of the neighborhood through the media had long ago written it off.
Through the hard work of residents and community partners that perception is being replaced by the fact that people are feeling increasingly more comfortable enjoying the great things our neighborhood has to offer, great people and the great food and beauty created in their gardens!
People are growing fresh food in the gardens, their yards and front lawns and are sharing their knowledge and resources! Now that’s powerful!
Visit our site: www.cityrisingfarm.com