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GrowGood Inc.
OUR EXPERIENCES
GrowGood is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit urban farm with a mission to use urban agriculture programs to empower people and transform communities. We typically devise a half-day of service starting with a farm and shelter tour, and various farm related tasks such as seeding, harvesting, mulching, etc, and then lunch catered by our culinary students featuring our farm fresh produce. To accommodate bigger groups, we have devised volunteer activities both outside at the farm and inside the adjacent Shelter such as a painting a beautification mural. Additionally, GrowGood provides numerous area schools and other youth-oriented clubs and organizations with education-based classes and volunteer opportunities, as well as engages the community at large through workshops and social activities.
ABOUT US
GrowGood’s year-round programs address the challenges that unhoused individuals face by assisting them along the path to stability and self-sufficiency. Our mission centers around three pillars: food, jobs, and eco-therapeutic opportunities. (1) We grow a variety of fresh organic produce for the shelter kitchen; (2) we provide job training and resume-building opportunities for those with the greatest barriers to employment; and (3) we propagate and manage a California native plant garden that (among other things) serves as therapeutic green space where shelter clients can find respite and nurture personal growth and spiritual and emotional healing. The City of Bell, where GrowGood is located, is in an area designated a “food desert” by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The highly industrial surrounding community is plagued with socio-economic, environmental, and food inequities that impact the overall health and well-being of its members.
OUR IMPACT
Since 2011, GrowGood has worked with The Salvation Army Bell Shelter to farm a 1.5-acre parcel of land adjacent to the shelter, which is the largest west of the Mississippi. The shelter provides comprehensive transitional care for up to approximately 350 homeless men and women, a third of them veterans. Being on the farm, which is adjacent to the Bell Shelter, provides an up-close and personal element to helping those in need.
DETAILS
For more information, contact: Jayne@grow-good.org
What are your minimum and maximum group sizes?
We accept groups up to 20.
Do you require visitors to pre-book?
Yes, we do not accept walk-ins.
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