FREEING PEOPLE FROM HUNGER
Growing To Give
Growing To Give is a registered 501c3 non-profit that
develops projects and partnerships to free people from
hunger across the country and around the world.
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Imagine a world where the most resourceful and productive community farms and gardens thrive, nourishing communities with fresh and sustainable produce. Now, imagine those farm and gardens being gifted to communities who are passionate about sustaining them for years to come. That's what we're all about at Growing to Give - creating a movement of generosity and empowerment through innovation in agriculture.
Agriculture is not just a means of survival for people in need in these communities but also a source of pride and purpose. It's a way for people to connect with the land and with each other, a way to grow to give, learn new skills, and to contribute to the common good. By promoting sustainable farm and garden practices, Growing To Give intends to free millions from hunger.
Growing to Give is committed to alleviating hunger, promoting food security and environmental stewardship through the development and enhancement of community and backyard gardens and small scale farms using innovative, sustainable agriculture technologies and practices. Our mission is to empower marginalized, low income, climate vulnerable communities to grow their own fresh produce, thereby reducing reliance on traditional food distribution systems.
Once an oasis, Las Vegas has become the most unsustainable city in the world. The artesian wells and springs are long gone, and the city depends on Lake Mead for its water supply, which is at its lowest level since the construction of the Hoover Dam almost a century ago. Unless extreme water saving measures are adopted, the future of Las Vegas looks bleak.
The average residential water use in Las Vegas is approximately 220 gallons per day per household. The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) has set a target to reduce this usage to about 180 gallons per day per household by 2035. In an effort to reduce water use and address rising food prices and growing food security throughout the city, we will implement a government supported, city-wide, Water Smart Crop Circle Garden Program. Each garden will use just a fraction (4 gallons) of the 170 gallon per day goal targeted by the city while growing enough food to support a family of four.
The project will demonstrate Crop Circle Gardens at our agricultural demonstration site on the shores of Lake Mead. This initiative, in collaboration with local nonprofit organizations, local food banks and sponsors, has the potential to feed people in need all across the city.
Growing to Give is committed to accelerating change by offering innovative and scalable solutions that will be implemented globally through our Strengthening Community Gardens Across America, Africa, and the Caribbean initiative. Learn More About Our Hero Initiative
Our Community Food Ambassador Program was created for those that want to adopt a more proactive role in their communities. The Community Food Ambassador Program combines elements of community service, education, and sustainability to address the challenge of rising costs and accessibility of fresh produce. Learn More About Becoming A Food Ambassador
The purpose of our programs are twofold. Firstly, we aim to provide resources, support, and innovative solutions to community gardens across America and then around the world. We work closely with community garden leaders and participants to provide tools, guidance, and educational resources to optimize food production, promote ecological sustainability, and foster community engagement.
Secondly, we actively advocate for the importance of community gardens in promoting food security, environmental stewardship, and community well-being. Through public outreach, education, and collaboration with like-minded organizations, we seek to raise awareness about the benefits of community gardening and inspire individuals and communities to embrace this transformative practice.
By bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds, fostering connections, and nurturing a sense of ownership and pride, we aim to build stronger and more resilient communities. Through our efforts, we strive to create a future where everyone has access to fresh, nutritious food, where community members are actively engaged in sustainable food production, and where communities thrive through shared gardening experiences.
Our programs give communities what they need to take control of their food resources, fostering food security, and creating a more sustainable and equitable society.
Our projects span the globe from a small community garden in Ohio that grows fresh produce for refugees from Nepal and Burma to schools in Ethiopia and food desert gardens that feed people in need.
Wherever we grow, we reduce poverty and improve food security by teaching people a new way to grow food, a way that uses less water, less space and is more sustainable.
In South Africa, Growing To Give is supporting 14 community gardens and an agroforestry project along the Garden Route with Umthiqua. A church sponsored community farm site in Canada provided 100,000 pounds of produce to local food banks and the Salvation Army.
In Arizona, we are growing 20,000 pounds of Poblano peppers in the middle of the desert. Las Vegas has become the most unsustainable city in the world. The re-emergence of a farm on Las Vegas Boulevard after three quarters of a century would make a powerful statement for sustainability and support a vision to grow food locally and in a sustainable resource efficient way all while supporting growing numbers of people in poverty.
The world’s islands are facing a perfect storm in the wake of the pandemic – food inflation, broken supply chains, water scarcity and limited arable land have ushered in a threat of food insecurity that has governments recognizing the immediate need for rapid development of island agriculture.
Growing To Give is currently developing agricultural food security sites in The Turks and Caicos, the Cayman Islands, the USVI, Anguilla, Antigua, Grenada, Barbados, St. Martin and Nevis.
Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us.
Since its beginnings, Slow Food has grown into a global movement involving millions of people in over 160 countries, working to ensure everyone has access to good, clean and fair food.
Slow Food believes food is tied to many other aspects of life, including culture, politics, agriculture and the environment. Through our food choices we can collectively influence how food is cultivated, produced and distributed, and change the world as a result.
We’re the first and ONLY Chamber of Commerce located in hundreds of metro areas that is focused on growing cross-border trade and investment in a collaborative way... everywhere!
Doing business in one metro? Join a local organization. Wish to grow in more than one metro? Join the Global Chamber® to reach new opportunities anywhere in the world.
Our mission is to accelerate cross-border business, trade and investment in every region of the world by engaging top executives and leaders with warm connections and timely information to grow their businesses and create more success.
Our vision is to create a business reality where it's as easy growing across regions anywhere in the world as it is selling across the street.
Growing To Give is proud to welcome Global Chamber as a sponsor and we are eager to see what we can accomplish together.
The Pan African Chamber of Commerce is an advocate for a business environment conducive to enterprise creation and development, generating employment and contributing to the socio-economic development of Africa.
Africa is full of promise. Boasting seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies of the world over the past decade, it has one of the largest populations of working-age people, vast untapped natural resource wealth potential, and an increasingly stable community of democratic governments that are eager to trade and welcome international investment.
Tree Plantation and Growing To Give have joined forces to combat climate change and save endangered tree species from around the world and we can do this quickly and at scale.
Tree Plantation grows trees in circles instead of in rowed plantations. Circular tree plantations grow trees 20% faster, provide unparalleled protection from the elements and quickly develop under canopy forest ecosystems that transform the forest floor.
Circular tree plantations retain moisture and humidity: vital for land areas affected by changing rainfall patterns. Indigenous flora, some of which are scarce and endangered, thrive in these circle-shaped, high humidity forests.
Intermingled with commercially valuable timber trees are flowering trees to support the bird and insect pollinators that occupy the forest. Endangered trees can be planted as well using the tree canopy of the main forest for protection from the elements.
Tree Plantation and Growing To Give are currently collaborating on a 1,000 acre spiral forest project that will be funded entirely by donors and sponsors.
Patented and trademarked in over 40 countries, Crop Circles® is a minimum resource use, high-yield, climate adaptable technology set to disrupt global agriculture. Crop Circles® use less water, less land and grows more food in less time in any climate, anywhere!
Crop Circle Farms® was created to address four critical issues facing the world today: water scarcity, food insecurity, broken supply chains, and the high-cost of fertilizer.
Crop Circle Farms has developed technologies that address these issues head on; and we have done this at scale. Crop Circle Farms can grow food on just about any landscape regardless of soil quality.
Low cost, low water use, and zero import fertilizer use are just some of the reasons that Crop Circle Farms may be the best controlled agriculture approach to addressing food production, particularly in a world were half the population is dealing with some level of food crisis.
Growing To Give has partnered with Crop Circle Farms to provide small space, low impact agricultural systems to small plot farmers challenged by the rising cost of production and low outputs.
Crop Circle Farms and Growing To Give are currently collaborating on a 1 acre food spiral project that will feed 3,000 people a year on the island of St. Martin.
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