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The Growing Project (TGP)

Can local, sustainable, community agriculture promote increased food security, poverty relief, and environmental justice? Over the next few weeks, conversations grew into meetings that sprouted other ideas: CSAs for low-income families, multiple community gardens, an education center with food preservation classes, shared gardening tools and seeds, kids’ summer programs in agriculture, and so on. More ideas emerged at each subsequent meeting and finally coalesced into a formal organization - The Growing Project (TGP).  In February 2009, TGP became a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Much of what drove that initial conversation was a desire to increase awareness of how alienated most city-dwellers have become from the people who grow our food and the places our food is grown...an awareness of how dependent we have become on the corporate food industry to fulfill our most basic need to eat. Less than 1% of people in the United States claim farming as their primary occupation, while the rest of us have over the last 60+ years lost more and more knowledge about growing, preparing, and preserving our own food. TGP wants to take back this knowledge and spread that seed into every bit of unused o.

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Headquarters
Fort Collins, CO
Website
thegrowingproject.org
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