Our 50 community food gardens foster self-sufficiency and help families cut their living costs by growing their own food locally. We transform vacant lots into productive neighborhood garden spaces, and beautify urban areas through landscaping and street tree programs.

Capital Roots provides access to fresh food through innovative programs like our Veggie Mobile travelling produce markets and our Healthy Stores Initiative - which places refrigerated produce display units in neighborhood convenience stores and provides store owners with access to wholesale pricing so that they can offer healthy food to their customers. Our Squash Hunger program utilizes volunteers to "rescue" extra produce from farmers, gardeners, and retailers and bring it to emergency feeding programs throughout the Capital District.

Education programs like our Taste Good Series and Produce Project provide inner-city children and teens with the opportunity to build healthy eating habits and develop valuable job and life skills.

What can your donation accomplish?

$75 - Teaches basic gardening skills to new community gardeners

$150 - Buys BioDiesel to keep The Veggie Mobile delivering for a week

$300 - Funds one month of produce deliveries to an inner-city Healthy Store

$600 - Provides a semester’s stipend for a teen in The Produce Project

$1200 - Allows 50 kids to discover fruits and veggies in the Taste Good Series

$2500 - Provides snacks, tools, & work clothes for Produce Project teens

$5000 - Purchases the soil and supplies needed to build a new community garden - allowing a new crop of gardeners to grow and share

Please note - Funds donated through this website are intended for our general operations. If you would like to make a donation in support of the Urban Grow Center Campaign, please click here to go to our Grow Center donation page. Thank you!