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Summer is here and the Tomatoes are Ripe! Where can I get Global Gardens Produce?
Capital City Public Market, downtown on 8th Street on Saturdays, 9:30 - 1:30
Tuesday evening market at the North End Organic Nursery, 5-7 pm on Tuesdays, and
At our farm stand on Hwy 44 in Star, 5:30 - 8 pm on Fridays, with additional hours coming soon!
The Capital City Public Market is now food stamp accessible! Bring your Quest card to the red tent in the center of the market, where a volunteer will scan your card and give you market tokens. EBT users get TWO for ONE for a limited time only -- scan your card up to $10 and we'll give you an additional $10 in market coupons FREE!
Global Gardens is featured on Idaho Public Television's "Outdoor Idaho." Click here to view the show! Produced by our friend and customer Thanh Tan. Congratulation Thanh!
"Making West Home" Cookbook now available for purchase online! Support Global Gardens by getting yours today!
Click here for more info on the cookbook project.
Click here to order yours online or make an online donation!
Global Gardens is looking for land in Boise! In our ideal world, we would like one to ten acres in or close to Boise, with irrigation water or well water, that refugee farmers could use for at least 3 years for market gardening. For more info, contact Katie at kpainter@idahorefugees.org
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Click here to read our recent article in the Idaho Statesman!
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Girl Scouts Garden Synagogue Garden Somali Bantu Farm
Hillview Garden Allumbaugh Farm
About Us:
Global Gardens is a program of the Idaho Office for Refugees. We sponsor refugee agriculture projects at 8 locations in Boise, Eagle, and Star 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 3 sites which we consider farms. Two of these are community farms where groups of refugees work together at these sites to cultivate vegetables for family consumption and for sale at local farmer's markets and restaurants. In 2010 we added the Global Gardens Incubator Farm, on a 22-acre site in Star. Twelve families have one acre market garden plots there and are growing for farmer's markets, restaurants, and our CSA.
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 Capital City Public Market, downtown on Saturday mornings, and at other smaller markets as available. We have a CSA -- Communtiy Supported Agriculture. Learn more about it on the CSA page. We also sell to the Boise Co-op and to a number of restaurants, including Bittercreek Alehouse, The Red Feather, Willy B's, Guido's Pizza, Bardenay and more! Are you a chef or restaurant owner? Call for our availability list!
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
