2020 Donations That Made A Difference
Every year, Renee's Garden donates seeds to a wide variety of organizations and educational programs worldwide that strive to improve social, economic and health conditions, and promote sustainable organic gardening. We also encourage retailers to donate unsold Renee's Garden seeds to local nonprofit organizations at the end of the season. We are pleased to share just a few successful outcomes.
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York Poquoson Master Gardeners
Poquoson, VA
"The York/Poquoson Master gardeners established a partnership with the Youth Volunteer Corps (YVC) of Hampton Roads. YVC worked with food pantries to provide fresh vegetables to residents in the food desert of south Newport News, VA. Most of the produce we grew went to a local food bank and a kitchen that serves homeless, as well as feeding low income families all around the neighborhood.
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Civic Garden Center
Cincinnati, OH
"Thank you for supporting our mission of Building Community through Gardening Education. In addition to the Community Gardens Program, the Civic Garden Center started a Victory Gardens Program. Some of our 73 community gardens are located in really underserved neighborhoods, so they appreciated the opportunity to choose from the wide selection of donated seeds.”
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Botanical Community Development Initiatives
Oceanside, CA
"We are so incredibly grateful your generous seed donation for our farm, education, and nutrition programs. We used them to grow food for local state-funded preschools at our farm, Community Roots Farm. We also gave seeds to local preschools, elementary schools whose beds we help to manage, and to some local high schools with school gardens They have brought so much joy and nourishment to our community."
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Bronx Green-Up
Bronx, NY
"The New York Botanical Garden’s community gardening “Green-up” program‘s work is threefold: we are trainers in urban horticulture; partners on Bronx greening projects in community gardens and urban farms; and a conduit for bringing people and resources together to teach people of all ages how to care for urban land and grow food with limited resources."
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Duke Farms Foundation
Hillsborough, NJ
"Thank you so much for your generous donation of seed to support our giving garden program. In 5 years, we have grown and donated over 17,600 pounds of food to local food banks and shelters within Somerset County, NJ. This program is run nearly entirely by volunteers!"
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Seattle's Giving Garden Network
Seattle, WA
"We thank you for your support during this surreal 2020. Seattle’s Giving Garden Network is a loose collaboration of community p-patches, mission kitchen gardens and small food bank organizations sharing produce with needy neighbors. We distributed your seeds directly to these collaborators and to food bank clients, low income gardeners, and to Northwest Harvest. This year, realizing there would be an increased need – we grew over 23,500 starts (Full disclosure: we got tired, and we quit counting.)"
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Hardin County Extension
Elizabethtown, KY
"In 2020 we provided your generous seed donations to Hardin County 4-Hers for Horticulture projects, and two Community Gardens which provided over 4,000 pounds of produce to local food pantries. The elderly on fixed income were able to benefit from the garden and expand their nutritional choices. The Extension Office was able to offer seeds when people had exhausted their other means of locating or purchasing seeds to plant a garden. Thank you!"
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UNC Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
"As part of the UNC’s Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, I provide technical assistance to community gardens in rural, low-income regions in the state. Our outreach is grant funded, with very limited resources. Your seed donation extends the capacity of our funding to allow these developing gardeners to build the infrastructure and community support they need for successful growing."
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