Annie's Community Giving

 

Annie’s has a long-standing commitment to growing ideas, movements, and well, gardens, organically.  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:

 

 

 

  

Granny's Garden School

Granny’s Garden School is located on a 25 acre campus in Loveland, OH and serves as all of Loveland’s 1,800 K-4th grade students. Students come to the school as part of their school day to grow vegetables under the guidance of their classroom teachers and Granny’s Garden teachers. Produce grown in the garden is used in the school cafeteria and is donated to the local food bank. Funding from the grant will be used to purchase child-sized garden tools for the early childhood center. 

http://www.grannysgardenschool.com 

 

 
 

 

 

Hartford Food Stystem

Grow Hartford promotes a sustainable and equitable food system in Hartford by cultivating youth leadership and civic participation through agriculture. Grow Hartford operates a working urban farm on three sites in Hartford's inner city that serve as outdoor classrooms for hundreds of Hartford young people and families. The funds will be used to purchase plant stock for a permaculture garden in one of our fields. In particular we hope to install an asparagus patch (which can produce for over 30 years) and a raspberry patch. 

http://www.hartfordfood.org/programs/grow_hartford.html 

 

 

 

 

 

  
Growing Healthy Kids
 
Growing Healthy Kids focuses on kids' needs for healthier eating and more physical activity. The organization’s priority is building vegetable and herb community gardens for at-risk children in the Indian River County. This year, Growing Healthy Kids will expand by holding quarterly parent workshops on childhood obesity. Participants learn how to prepare healthy snacks and foods (i.e., whole grains and fresh, organic veggies) using ingredients from their gardens by chefs who use fresh and local ingredients. The Growing Organic grant will be used to buy foods like Annie's products for healthy cooking classes conducted throughout the county and to purchase supplies for a healthy kid recipe contest using an Annie's product plus at least one ingredient from their garden. 

http://growinghealthykids.blogspot.com/ 

 

Congratulations to our January Grants for Gardens recipients:  

             

Growing Places Farm & Energy Park
Ford Elementary School
Hidden Lakes Garden
Arizona Homegrown Solutions
Baltimore Urban Gardening with Students
Hidden Park School
GROW UP! Community Garden
 

 

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

 

Cases for Causes  

 

Grants for Gardens 

 

Students at Longmill Elementary in Youngsville, NC installed their first school garden with the help from Grow and Share and the Grants for Gardens grant.

 

 

 Students at Chapman Hill Elementary share how they will spend their grant money: