Garden 2 Table

Learn & Do

Garden2Table develops individual, community, and production gardens to support healthy food access. The Garden2Table program is working to address the lack of access to healthy foods among some segments of our population or in areas of our city. The Garden2Table program provides Chesapeake’s citizens with access to healthy foods through community gardens developed within their neighborhood, provision of individual grow boxes, and the establishment of production sites that produce food for distribution.

Our Projects

Community Food Gardens

We seek to provide opportunities for individuals to have the resources to grow their own food or have access to healthy foods via products grown in the city’s 19 community gardens. These gardens are in schools, libraries, detention centers, senior housing, and businesses. The teams that care for these gardens are passionate about educating others and providing healthy food for their clients, neighbors, or donating to food pantries.

Working with the City of Chesapeake Cuffee Innovation and Outreach Library, we doubled the size of the community garden, filling it with vegetables that the neighbors requested.

Our newest garden partner, Warren Farms, donated a portion of land to create the Warren Farms, Virginia Cooperative Extension, and Healthy Chesapeake Community Education and Production Garden. In our first season, more than 1,500 pounds of produce were distributed to the community, including our HUB clients and VCE’s Plant a Row for the Hungry.

Nutrition Education

Our partnerships with the Chesapeake Public Library and Chesapeake Public Schools continue to grow. We annually serve over 1,000 participants at various activities. We participated in many outreach events to increase knowledge of healthy living and hosted nutritional education classes for children and seniors alike.