The Guadalupe Community Center provides free, wrap-around support and advocacy services to help individuals and families in need work towards self-sufficiency.

• Income: must be less than 80 % of AMI to qualify.

• Housing Case Management
• Referrals to Case Management

• Rental Assistance
• Mortgage Assistance
• Utility Assistance - Electric
• Utility Assistance - Water
• Utility Assistance - Internet
• Financial Education

• Insufficient Earnings
• Food Insecurity

• English
• Spanish

With a goal of increasing the financial stability of working individuals and families in poor and aid persecuted Christians, is a community garden used as a resource to not only augment the Food Pantry, but as a teaching tool for students enrolled in the After School and Summer Youth Program.

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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.

The five acres of creek access land that Yanawana Herbolarios is situated on is perfectly located to provide the communities YH serves with conveniently located access to an outdoor, educational, healing community sanctuary.

Wild spaces within the city are precious and rare and provide a unique opportunity to observe and be with nature. The management, revitalization, and re-indigenizing of this land will provide for educational opportunities surrounding traditional Indigenous plant medicine and land management practices, food sovereignty, and climate change, as well as create community food forests and gardens that will provide food, healing sanctuary, and the space to learn how to live in agreement with the land.

With a goal of increasing the financial stability of working individuals and families in poor and aid persecuted Christians, is a community garden used as a resource to not only augment the Food Pantry, but as a teaching tool for students enrolled in the After School and Summer Youth Program.

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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).

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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].

The Covenant Food Pantry provides direct help to people requesting assistance at the church. Reusable grocery bags are packed with nonperishable items and are kept on hand for distribution.

Monetary donations to the Food Pantry and donations of nonperishable items are welcome. 

Click here for a list of items we need.

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

West Avenue Compassion’s Community Garden was created to educate clients about gardening and producing healthy fruits and vegetables that are often expensive through grocery stores. Ten families can plant, harvest, and care for four 4X4 boxes through the Community Garden. Educational classes are conducted each month to provide instructional assistance on the processes and how-to’s of taking care of a garden. The clients care for their boxes for the spring and fall planting seasons.

For more information, contact 210-573-2847.

CIELO Garden at House of Prayer is a community based partnership involving volunteers, educators and members of San Antonio's resettled refugee community. The gardens are located at House of Prayer Lutheran Church, where the congregation has opened their doors for adult education courses and social services to provide for San Antonio's nearby refugee community through Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Agency and Northside ISD Adult Education Program.

The gardens are a Green Spaces Alliance affiliated community garden that provides for students to have access to their own garden plots, as well as used in conjunction with their English literacy courses. These gardens are purely volunteer operated and funded by donations, a Green Spaces grant, and through the financial support our garden volunteers, families, and friends.

For More information, please call, email, or check our website.

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 Market and hiking opportunities. It also serves as a natural laboratory for sustainable modern living—a place 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 that provides access to outdoor learning for children and a model for land stewardship for the greater community.

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

Cultivar teaches clients how to grow and prepare foods that are grown organically 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 clients of Hill Country Mission for Health and will supplement monthly food distribution at Hill Country Family Services.

If you are interested in participating in this community initiative, please call Hill Country Mission for Health at 830-249-0130 for more information.

Adults: 18-64.

Click here to see if you are eligible.

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Marfa Food Pantry sponsors a community garden. As the garden continues to expand, it is our hope to eventually be able to include something fresh from the garden with each distribution. Saturday mornings are community garden days. 

People interested in helping with the garden should contact Peggy O'Brien.