The Eastside Sprout Community Garden offers fresh produce, gardening education, and a safe community space to gather.

All of the produce grown here is free, and you're welcome to pick anytime. We simply ask that visitors respect the space and leave enough produce to share with others who visit.

What's growing depends on the season! We try to plant a variety of things that we think people will like to eat. Please let us know if you have any requests.

There are plenty of other ways to enjoy the garden:

• Host an event or meeting.
• Have lunch under the heritage oak tree.
• Share your photos and tag us on social media.
• Share a favorite recipe or memory.
• Play with the cats.

Come grow with us!

We welcome gardeners of all skill levels!

Not really into gardening? There are many other ways to support this community space. We need volunteers with experience or interest in marketing, communications, fundraising, "handyperson" tasks, and more!

Guadalupe Community Center provides immediate help to address food insecurity, reduce poverty, and prevent homelessness.

Provides organic produce all year long to supplement the St. Stephen’s CARE Center Food Pantry.

Click here for more information. 

Click here to see the St. Phocas Amazon Wishlist.

Time Dollar is committed to providing food that is healthy and nutritious based on availability. Boxes or bags are prepared to include food from each food group. We try to make it as nutritious as possible. We include fresh herbs and vegetables from our Jardín de la Esperanza community garden.

Through our partnership with the Yard Farmers and Ranchers Market, we are also able to include fresh locally grown and organic vegetables, herbs, artisanal breads, free-range eggs, artisanal cheese, condiments, and
sometimes pork or beef. All food items are based on availability. The food pantry is open to all residents of Bexar County once per month who meet income guidelines.

Through our Garden Program, we include a spring and fall series titled “Gardening and Sustainable Living Classes.” We teach Square Foot Gardening to those who come to our Time Dollar Community Table food pantry. People learn to use a simple square-foot gardening technique, which uses 20% of the space, 20% of the water, and 20% of the work but still produces 100% of the harvest. This garden-to-table process provides nutritious, chemical-free vegetables and herbs.

Ground-level or tabletop garden frames are provided. Class series include techniques in planting, herbs & companion planting, household use of herbs, composting, water saving, organic pest control, saving seeds, nutrition, healthy cooking, diabetes management through food, sustainable cooking & refrigeration, canning, and use of traditional medicinal plants for healing. Garden-to-table eating is promoted throughout our classes for health.

Our program is unique in that we provide descriptions of unusual vegetables along with storage, cooking instructions, and recipes. We also provide cooking demos and their respective recipes so our guests can taste these types of vegetables. We provide nutrition classes focusing on diabetes, healthy eating, and using vegetables from your garden.

Thorough our teaching garden, we teach children where their food comes from and adults how to grow food in their own backyards using a variety of techniques. We also teach healthy cooking. The produce we grow is distributed through the food pantry.

Big Mama's Safe House, Gardopia, SACADA, and the City of San Antonio have come together to revive the Woodard Community Garden. This collaboration has a multitude of benefits for our community.

Read more about violence reduction and gardens here. 

The YWCA Olga Madrid Center is a multi-purpose center that is the literal hub of the community, reaching multiple generations in the same families. The Center reflects the community's culture and offers essential services with dignity and respect.

Through our Summer Meals Sites, children 18 and younger can enjoy no-cost breakfast, lunch, and snacks—no registration or ID required. These meals are available at schools, parks, libraries, community centers, and other neighborhood locations listed, making it easy for families to access nutritious food close to home.

No registration or ID required. 

Free

Promoting Wellness In Our Community Through Sustainable Urban Farming.

Clubhouse Grows is San Antonio Clubhouse's On-Site Hydroponic Farm Unit. Our unit produces dozens of pounds of fresh vegetables every month, which are shared by clubhouse members (via the community kitchen and weekly produce boxes) and the broader San Antonio community (via non-profit partners and local mutual aid projects).

Click here to learn more and join. 

Click here to sign up for our Weekly Produce Drop.

We are looking to make partnerships with local San Antonio restaurants to sell our produce.

If you are a restaurant interested in partnership, please contact us at [email protected].

We have a dedicated group of gardeners who grow fresh fruits and vegetables on the church grounds to help supplement our ongoing programs. If you are interested in volunteering in the Community Garden, let the church office know.

Our Mission is to promote food security using sustainable organic gardening, while also providing opportunities to grow in leadership and economic growth and enjoy being in nature to promote mental health.

Our Vision is to be a place where people can come together and grow healthy, organic produce; and to celebrate the diversity of our community across ages, backgrounds, religions and cultures.

Cielo in Spanish means heaven.  We see that this garden represents a little piece of heaven on earth.  As an acronym C.I.E.L.O. stands for Community, Interfaith, Education, Literacy & Opportunities.   It began as a joint project between House of Prayer Lutheran, Catholic Charities, and Northside ISD Adult Education with support from University of Incarnate Word’s Interfaith Council, Green Spaces Alliance South Texas and others to provide gardening opportunities for recently resettled refugees. 

You can reach our website Here

If you are interested in a plot or volunteering in the garden please contact the church office.

The International Community Garden is located at the south edge of our campus, adjacent to the youth building. We have 58 plots of land, which are leased to refugee families who live in nearby apartment complexes. These plots allow individuals a place to grow food and give them the opportunity for meaningful labor and fellowship.

Call church office for information.

Fees vary.

FreeFood.org is about helping people. We created this website as a resource for users to find and add free food resources locally and nationwide.

This free food resource list is by no means all-inclusive. We are always looking for more resources.

If you know of a food resource that is not included here, please submit new food pantries, food coupon resources, and food banks to our database by ADDING A LISTING. Please provide full information.

KJ/Lisa Community Gardens is a program of the Brauner Foundation Inc., a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. 

We are looking to support new and already existing vegetable-based gardens. It is suggested that the garden sites should start or be around 6 ft. x 9 ft. Consider the size of the crops you are interested in growing, as well as how much time you are willing to devote to the upkeep of your garden.

This project offers small grants that support community vegetable gardens. By supporting small vegetable gardens, we could help promote healthy living throughout our communities.

If you are starting or maintaining a garden, write a detailed proposal, timeline, and budget for your garden and submit it to [email protected] for grant consideration. Please allow 2-3 weeks for us to get back to you.

Visit Herff Farm to connect to the past, present, and future of living in harmony with the land.

Herff Farm is a gathering place offering public events, community gardens, a Farmers Marke,t and hiking opportunities. It also serves as a natural laboratory for sustainable modern living, where children and adults learn how to protect our precious natural resources.

Historically significant and protecting an irreplaceable freshwater source, the Herff Farm is a vibrant hub providing children's access to outdoor learning and a model for land stewardship for the greater community.

Cultivar is an initiative led by HCMH and is an extension of the Risk Buster healthy living program. Risk Buster focuses on preventing and improving client health, whereas Cultivar focuses on education and making good food choices.

Cultivar teaches clients how to grow and prepare organically grown foods in the garden. Cultivar is designed to reach across socioeconomic and age barriers to help both young and old experience the enjoyment of organic gardening.

Produce from the garden will be distributed to Hill Country Mission for Health clients and will supplement monthly food distribution at Hill Country Family Services.

Adults: 18-64.

Click here to see if you are eligible.

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