Grow Pittsburgh mission is to teach people how to grow food and promote the benefits gardens bring to our neighborhoods.
We develop and support food-growing initiatives and programs across the region as a key way to improve the social, economic, environmental, health, and educational realities of people in our community. Our work can be summarized in three approaches:
We teach people how to grow food through school garden curriculum, teacher trainings, workforce development for youth, adult workshops, and other resources.
We grow food for our community through our urban farm sites, providing affordable chemical-free fresh fruits and vegetables at our farm stands and through donations to free food distributions.
And we build and support gardens for PreK-12 schools and communities throughout Allegheny County.
Grow Pittsburgh’s Mission, Vision and Values are essential to our work and the lens through which we make all key decisions from program development and evaluation to human resources and hiring.