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Thanks to the generous support of many funders, Porters Community Farm was established in the fall of 2012 in the Porters neighborhood of downtown Gainesville. As Gainesville’s first urban farm, the main component of the Porters Community Farm is ten 55 foot rows that are being intensively grown to help supply fresh organic vegetables to [...]
The Gainesville Initiative for Tasty Gardens or GIFT Gardens builds raised bed vegetable gardens and edible landscaping for low-income families and institutions that support them. By providing physical and education resources GIFT Gardens aims to increase food production in Alachua County, to increase self-sufficiency of community residents and to beautify neighborhoods. To date there are [...]
FOG’s Social Justice Program How can sustainable agriculture project our natural resources while ignoring our human resources? It cannot. FOG has always been dedicated to promoting agricultural and food systems that protect our planet, the people and animals who inhabit it, and our communities. One of the main ways FOG has activated this mission is [...]
FOG offers SNAP recipients (formerly food stamps) the opportunity use their benefits to purchase food at two farmers markets in Alachua County; the Saturday Alachua County Farmers Market, and the Wednesday Union Street Farmers Market. Debit/Credit capabilities also available. WHO CAN USE THIS SERVICE? EBT technology allows those with SNAP benefits (food stamps) to use [...]
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