Why food gardens?
Because a garden grows more than food.
From dinner tables to classrooms to food banks, one small plot does a surprising amount of work.
Gardens put fresh food within reach of the people who need it most. In one U.S. study, community gardeners saved about $84 a month on groceries.
See the research →Hunger, health, schools, climate, neighbors who barely know each other. We tend to treat these as separate concerns with separate budgets.
A food garden quietly works on all of them at once.
How crowdgranting works
Rally your community. Earn a grant.
Crowdgranting pairs your own community fundraising with a SeedMoney challenge grant — so the more your supporters give, the bigger the grant you earn.
Apply
Apply for a challenge grant of $100 to $1,000. No experience needed — we’ll help you get set up.
Rally your community
Invite your community to chip in during the fall Challenge. We give you the page, templates, and coaching.
Earn your grant
The more your community gives, the bigger the grant SeedMoney adds on top of what you raise.
Keep 100% of what you raise.
No platform fees and no transaction fees. Every dollar your community gives goes straight to your garden.
See how it works →Our impact
See where the food is growing
Every project is a real garden in a real place, plotted on the map with photos from the people who grew it. Explore all 3,687.
Grantee stories
What a grant grows.
“With $1,400 raised through the SeedMoney Challenge, we moved to a new site, installed raised beds, and added a deer fence. The results speak for themselves: over 3,200 pounds of fresh produce distributed through our food pantry this summer alone.”
Nicole McAlexanderSoutheast Linn Community Center · Lisbon, IA
“With $11,639 from the SeedMoney Challenge, we brought two full acres into production with new seeds, fertilizer, and a potato plow. By late summer we’d donated more than 11,000 pounds of vegetables to local pantries — and welcomed 600 students to help with the harvest.”
Marie FingerhutRows for the Hungry · South Brunswick, NJ
“It was a record-breaking year for our farm and garden program. Students grew more than 2,500 lbs of food for our school café and the community, and nearly 500 students got hands-on experience growing and caring for the land. The $1,530 we raised through the SeedMoney Challenge made it possible.”
Ian MacphersonThe Farm & Gardens at Odyssey · Palm Bay, FL
“We raised $5,463 through the SeedMoney Challenge to keep our commercial kitchen classroom and food center running — community meals, senior farm shares, a food pantry, and local students visiting weekly to tend the gardens and cook what they grow.”
Rocky CrockettAlan Day Community Garden · Norway, ME
“With $10,320 raised through the SeedMoney Challenge, we built a hoop house to protect disease-resistant pigeon pea seedlings — critical in a country where the traditional crop has been wiped out by disease. We also distributed more than 500 moringa seedlings to local children.”
Kathy RadcliffeHarvesting 4 Haiti · Les Cayes, Haiti
“With $1,925 from the SeedMoney Challenge, we turned a fenced-in former daycare yard into a youth garden with four raised beds. This season the kids harvested tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, broccoli, and cabbage — right outside their library.”
Mary Jo ParkerLake Andes Library Youth Garden · Lake Andes, SD
“The $9,767 we raised through the SeedMoney Challenge funded subsistence farms for child-headed households in eSwatini, so orphaned children can grow their own food. With what was left, two young women started commercial gardens of their own.”
Annie TodtGive Hope, Fight Poverty · eSwatini
“The SeedMoney Challenge helped us raise $2,924 to rebuild five badly deteriorated garden beds in record time. They were quickly producing vegetables and pollinator blooms, with a dozen volunteers turning out to help.”
Amanda CoyleHelena Community Gardens · Helena, MT
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