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Engaging Neighbors
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Growing Community
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Growing Food
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Sharing Food
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Cultivating Relationships
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Racial Justice
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Environmental Justice
The Urban Farm and Garden Alliance (UFGA) is a collaboration of eight to ten Community Gardens and a group of Backyard Box Gardeners that promotes reconciliation, healing, peace, social and environmental justice through the cultivation and sharing of food in the Summit-University (Rondo) and Frogtown communities of St. Paul, MN. In 2014 leaders from six unique community gardens in the Aurora/St. Anthony and Frogtown Neighborhoods and backyard box gardeners represented by CSP Healthy Homes Program came together to form this Alliance. It has since grown to eight to ten community gardens; Lexington Commons, Pilgrim Baptist Church, Morning Star Baptist Church, Victoria Community Garden, CDC Greenhouse Garden, Peace Sanctuary Garden, The Lovejoy Family Community Garden, and CSP Healthy Homes Gardens (3 Community Gardens plus Backyard Box Gardens). The Alliance of these gardens serves to share ideas, resources and co-host educational workshops and summer activities and events through partnerships with other organizations and institutions including the University of Minnesota, Bethel University, Hamline University, The Storymobile and AfroEco.
These partnerships and relationships have been important in creating community around healthy nutritious foods and continuing to help create greater access to education on growing food and green space for residents in neighborhoods that have suffered the consequences of institutional racism. This includes, in particular, the destruction and severing of the historic Rondo neighborhood by building interstate 94 through a thriving African American community.
Thanks for visiting our page! If you would like to learn more about the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance or would like to become involved with the Alliance please contact us and a member of our team will reach out to you!