FARMGIRL GIVES
Growing Together
Across Texas, thousands of families cannot afford to put food on the table. In fact, food insecurity affects more than 4 million people statewide. Farmgirl Gives promotes agricultural education in communities and schools to equip the next generation of urban farmers and grow a bountiful harvest to help those in need.
About Us
Growing Food. Creating Community.
Farmgirl Gives is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to ending food insecurity in North Texas by teaching the next generation of urban farmers how to grow a bountiful harvest for themselves and others. Our work includes supporting community garden educators, installing school gardens, and providing AgriSTEM education for those dedicated to growing food to make sure no one goes hungry.
Education Initiatives
We give free lectures to local school and community groups, grant seed donations, and provide environmental education consulting and skills training to nonprofit community gardens leaders and school educators.
Ending Food Insecurity
Our mission is to support the lifetime love of real food and sharing the harvest with our tables and the tables of those in need. The food we produce on our farm’s demonstration gardens goes to those served by Denton-area food banks.
Site Content
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY GARDENS
The following are a few Farmgirl Gives school and community garden projects in the greater DFW Metroplex. During the COVID pandemic, Farmgirl Gives also provided 250 student service hours for high school and college volunteers.
Willow Springs School Garden
Provided the landscape design, permaculture training, and permaculture gardening curriculum for the 2019 and 2020 Student Service Day.
Montessori Lakeside Academy
Provided the landscape design, permaculture training, and permaculture gardening curriculum for the school’s Garden Club.
Hart Elementary
Provided garden education curriculum training for the 1st grade teachers and provided hatching eggs for the 2nd grade hatching projects.
Stewart's Creek
Installed the children’s garden and provided school garden curriculum for the 2017 school year.
Garland Community Garden
Provided seeds for their 2017 season.
Common Ground Community Garden
Farmgirl Gives founder Vanessa Bailey (pictured above) also was the Creator and Director of Common Ground Community Garden of Flower Mound. During her tenure, the community garden provided more than 3,000 service hours and 5,000 pounds of food for the North Texas Food Bank partner pantries.