Idaho Office for Refugees | Refugee Agriculture Program

Refugee Agriculture Program

About Us:

Global Gardens is a program of the Idaho Office for Refugees. We sponsor refugee agriculture projects at 7 locations in Boise and Eagle and provide garden or farm space for around 100 refugee families as well as training in horticultural production and marketing.

We have 5 sites that are community gardens, where families can get a small space and grow vegetables for their families. We don't offer any community garden spaces for non-refugees at this time, but please check out the "Community Gardens" page for more information on community gardening.

We have 2 sites which we consider farms -- they are larger, between 2 and 3 acres which are not divided. Groups of refugees work together at these sites to cultivate vegetables for family consumption and for sale at local farmer's markets and restaurants.

You can learn more about all of the sites HERE.

All of our gardens are on donated land and use organic farming methods. During the growing season, we sell produce at the Tuesday evening Farmer's Market at Edward’s Greenhouse and the Capital City Public Market, downtown on Saturday mornings. We have a CSA -- Communtiy Supported Agriculture. Learn more about it on the CSA page. We also sell to restaurants, including Bittercreek Alehouse, The Red Feather, and Mesa Taqueria.

We receive funding from the federal Office for Refugee Resettlement. We also receive many local donations in cash and in kind. The Somali Bantu Farm in Eagle received a grant in 2008 from Heifer International’s New Immigrant Farming Initiative and recently received a grant from the USDA's Farmer's Market Promotion Program.

For more information, please contact

Katie Painter

Refugee Agriculture Coordinator

Idaho Office for Refugees

208-336-4222

or by email at kpainter@idahorefugees.org

Our office is located in the Mountain States Group Building:

Idaho Office for Refugees

1607 W. Jefferson St.

Boise, ID 83702