Project Spotlights

Initiative Description

The project was designed to support food insecurity for the South Phoenix community.

“We coordinated with Happy Acres and Florence Crittenton two group homes in the Valley where the majority of children belong to Black, Hispanic, Indigenous andAsian communities. We facilities a workshop with moms of Arizona Democracy Resource Center, a mutual aid organization that advocates and supports justice involved folks. We also participated in the Family Fun Day with Maricopa Village SDA Church, on the Gila River Indian Community”

The group also participated in Earth Day events including the Hines Property Management Farmers Market.

Initiative Impact

The Seed Exchange was able to disseminate hundreds of seed starting pagackages to communities in Phoenix.

“The Seed Exchange was able to share 61 grow kits to GrowAnywhere workshop participants this year so far. All workshops discussed the devastating impact of food apartheid and how food growing and sharing support wellness.”

“Along with grow kits we shared 145 pea plant starter sacks and 300 hundred sunflower seeds for the community.”

What’s next?

Community support is growing as well as the orgnaiztiaons confidence in soliciting funds..

“We are happy to share we received a generous donation of seeds and volunteers to build out kits…. We also have 100% of our board committed to donating towards 20 kits each, this will bring us 100 more kits this year. We have written for more grants and have been able to schedule out more workshops. Our founder is still committed to providing the resources necessary to continue the work she started in 2020.”