Grace Grows is a non-profit organization that collaborates with GRACE Marketplace. Although we are completely separate financial and administrative entities, we share facilities on the GRACE Marketplace campus.
Programs Overview
North Central Florida Food System Coalition
The North Central Florida Food System Coalition’s goal is to improve food justice in the North Central Florida community by bringing together diverse stakeholders to work together to address both pressing and systemic food system issues. By bringing diverse stakeholders together, we reduce silos, increase collective capacity, and improve coordinated community response.
Grace Grows Garden
Grace Grows Community Garden is located at Gainesville, Florida’s only low-barrier shelter. We build relationships with people who have lived experience with homelessness and take lead from them. We offer therapeutic horticulture focused on trauma and social connection, connect people to resources, and grow healthy food right on site.
Alachua County Food Hub
Alachua County is developing a plan to create a food hub that improves food security and market share for small and local farmers. Grace Grows is subcontracted to do the community engagement component and engages stakeholders across the spectrum to ensure the project is rooted in community needs, strengths, and desires.
Get Involved
Volunteering
Join the North Central Florida Food System Coalition. We welcome all new members, whether you are part of an organization or not, and we especially welcome people with lived experience.
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We welcome all to join us on Saturdays from 9:30 AM to 1 PM for our weekly community volunteering days in the Grace Grows Garden. No prior gardening experience is necessary to be a valuable member of our volunteer team. Feel free to give us a call before you come out so that we may answer any additional questions.
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Groups are welcome on an as needed basis! Please contact us in advance to schedule a group volunteer day in the garden.
We also have volunteer internship opportunities.
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We hope to hear from you soon!
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Donating
Would you like to help support Grace Grows? Please consider making a monetary donation today. Your donation allows us to continue growing our program to improve food justice for our entire community.
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When you remember Grace Grows in your will, your legacy lives on in the garden and the programs that help end homelessness. Contact us today on how to make a bequest.
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We also gladly accept in-kind donations for the garden or vocational program. Please contact us for more information about how to make an in-kind donation.
Let us know how you’d like to show your support!