Annie's Community Giving

 

Annie’s has a long-standing commitment to growing ideas, movements, and gardens.  We believe in gardening as a vehicle to connect communities to real food and view youth agriculture programs, as well as community and schoolyard gardens, as vibrant sources for connection and education. 

 

We work to help students and organizations gain access to gardening opportunities both through Cases for Causes product donations and Grants for Gardens monetary funding.   Recent recipients include:

 

 

   

Sustainable Berea

Sustainable Berea in Berea, KY, promotes food quality, food security and neighborhood interactions through the growing and sharing of food. The organization is partnering with a local school to create a school garden, so the students can learn to grow and share healthy food. Organizers will promote an "Edible Yard Project" for the community that can serve as an extension of the schoolyard project. The Growing Organic grant will be used to create a school garden at Silver Creek Elementary School. Funds will be used to purchase gardening tools, seeds, plants, and a few of fruit trees.  


http://www.sustainableberea.org

 

 
 

  

 

The Harmony Institute

The Harmony Institute in Harmony, FL, promotes human health and well-being through the interaction of people, animals and the environment. The Harmony Institute is expanding and enhancing its "Seeds for Healthy Eating" program in which it provides planting boxes, soil, and seeds to seniors at the local Council on Aging so that they can garden. Planter boxes are built high enough for wheelchairs to easily fit under. After the plants have sprouted and are ready to be transplanted, the Harmony Institute brings the plants back to Spirit Farm, where students replant them in the garden, tend to the garden, and eventually harvest the vegetables, which are given back to the Council on Aging for the seniors to enjoy (vegetables are used in the COA kitchen). The grant will be used to purchase seeds for the season as well as materials to build more planter boxes.  

http://www.harmonyinstitute.org

 

 

 

 

 

    
Chelsea Elementary School
 
The Chelsea School Green Team is an environmentally conscious group of students, faculty and staff who work together to educate our school and community about environmentally-friendly habits. The team creates programs that make it easier for their community to reduce waste, reuse when possible, and recycle. Some of the initiatives that are currently underway at the school are: recycling containers in every class room, weighing collected recyclables once a week, educating students at the school on what is being recycled and planning a community garden. Grant money will be used to purchase gardening tools, seed-starting supplies and a compost bin. 

 

Congratulations to our May Grants for Gardens recipients:  

             

Sustainable Berea
The Harmony Institute
Beacon Therapeutic, Diagnostic & Treatment Center
KIPP Strive Academy
Hamilton Holmes Middle School
The Organic Pantry Project
Mary Potter Elementary School
Chelsea Elementary School
Ganns Middle Valley Elementary
Neptune Middle School
 

 

To learn more about our programs, or sign up to receive a donation, please visit the program pages:

 

Cases for Causes 

 

Grants for Gardens 

 


Anne Carlsen center in Jamestown, ND, used their Grants for Gardens grant to build a chicken tractor, a method that uses chickens for pest and weed prevention. The tractor is worked over by the chickens who look for slugs, grubs and weed seeds. Once complete, it is moved to another section of the garden.

 


 


 


Thomas Marks Elementary in Wilson, NY, kicked off their garden season with a “Reading Buddies” program that involved the 5th grade classes reading garden-related books with the Pre-K classes. Once spring arrived, the young gardeners got to work weeding the garden and planting seeds.  The seeds the students planted did not flourish as planned due to the soil, teaching the students that what you plant is only as good as the soil you plant in.  The Grants for Gardens grant will go towards the purchase of two new raised beds.