GRuB

OUR MISSION: GRuB grows healthy food, people, and community. 
With roots in the land, we create opportunities for people to learn, lead, and thrive.

OUR VISION: We envision an equitable world where we are all nourished by healthy relationships, resilient community, and good food.
       

 

More about GRuB's Programs:

Cultivating Community: Learn, Lead & Thrive

Our programs seek to support members of our community in gaining resources, building relationships, and growing good food together. In the context of each of our community programs, the GRuB community offers trainings, mentorship, and opportunities to gather and learn together.  We seek to support people in learning practices and communication tools to connect across differences in meaningful and empowering ways that work towards food justice and food sovereignty.

Veterans Program

GRuB empowers veterans to continue serving their community as partners, builders & farmers in our GRuB Garden Project and Veteran Programming. Through our Veteran Programming, we seek to create a non-confrontational environment where veterans work shoulder to shoulder immersed in the healing nature of the outdoors, agriculture, and dirt work.

GRuB Garden Project

Each spring, GRuB partners with veterans, individuals, families, and organizations to build backyard vegetable gardens. We work throughout Thurston County, and into Mason, Pierce, and other counties, to provide the public with access to the knowledge and resources needed to grow fresh, healthy, and culturally appropriate foods. The GGP offers gardens, vegetable seeds, plant starts, cover crop mix, and our extensive gardening workshop series, and encourages connections within the greater gardening community.

Growing Home Collective

‍GRuB’s Growing Home Collective uplifts the leadership and voices of Black people, many of whom are still experiencing the impacts of the legacy of American oppression and slavery. Our goal is to amplify sacred space for black people to rest, relax, and build resilient community together.

Youth Programs:

GRuB engages teens and young adults on the GRuB Farm to help break cycles of hunger, poverty, inequality and oppression. Since 1999, nearly 600 teens/young adults in our community have had the pleasure of participating in GRuB's youth empowerment programs (Cultivating Youth, GRuB School, and GroundED).

So many helping hands, minds, and hearts have brought us along, and we feel so rooted in the soil of the Farm and this place. Its rich relationships, ecosystems, and cultures teach us about reciprocal partnerships, and we acknowledge that it is a privilege to have been able to carry this work forward for so many years. 

We would like to invite you to join us in this work 
by donating at a level that is the right match for you! 
 We wouldn't be GRuB without "u"!