Gardeners love to share. Submit a photo of the bounty you shared with someone in your community for a chance to win a $100 gift certificate to Gardener’s Supply, as well as a $100 cash donation to your local non-profit food pantry.
Note: By entering this contest, you confirm that you have legal rights to the image and give permission to Gardener’s Supply Company to share your photo in the gallery below, on gardeners.com, on social media, and in our catalog. Must be 18 or older to win. Prize ships to US address. Contest runs August 15th – October 15th, 2017.
How to Enter
Post a public photo to Instagram, including the hashtag #GrowToGive in the caption (so we can discover it), or simply upload the photo below!
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Gardnener’s Supply Company employees planted potatoes to donate to the local food shelf upon harvest, photos to come this harvest season!
We donated the raised beds, the plants (tomatoes, swiss chard, kale, basil, eggplant, summer squash, spaghetti squash and cucumber) that we grew from seed and the labor to tend them through the growing season, to help feed the people who utilize the food pantry at Trinity Lutheran Church in Kent, Oh.
That is so awesome to hear! We hope you will join our current contest and post some public photos to Instagram with the hashtag #growtogive for a chance to win a $100 gift card.
Andrew P., Gardener’s Supply Co
#GrowToGive We shared green bean plants with my son’s teachers!
Thanks for sharing! We hope you will upload a photo with that caption here on this page or on Instagram to enter our contest!
Andrew, P. Gardener’s Supply Co
Garden Kitchen Lab- Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY donated the majority of their harvest to the Sunset Park community. We are also a new wonderful opportunity for children to learn how to go from garden-to-table and we are offered by NYC Parks Public Programs. This class teaches children how to start and sustain food producing gardens; harvest, cook healthy meals, and understand how science and cooking are closely related than it meets the eye.
Two photos submitted. Please check out our Facebook page, Rice Street Community Garden, Brevard, NC. All produce harvested goes to Bread of Life and Sharing House, providing fresh food to those in need.
I hope I got my photos uploaded correctly. Zion Lutheran Church in Muscatine, IA has 7 raised beds where we grow lots of vegetables over the summer months. All produce is donated to our local food pantry where the community can access it at no charge. Our Garden of “Garden of Eatin’ ” is managed by volunteer labor.
Following a couple of years as manager of a half acre “giving garden” (where 100% of the produce was donated), this year, I had only my personal 20’x40′ community garden plot to work. Still, I had a number of baskets to deliver to my local soup kitchen. The photo I uploaded above is one of those harvests. There is an entry on my blog for that day at https://florencegardensite.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/harvest-update-no-2/. My love of gardening yields far more food and pleasure than one single girl can process!
The St. Sabina Community Garden in Belton, MO donates 100% of the produce locally. We supply the food pantry at Heart & Hand Ministries, the weekly Community Meal at Lord of Love Lutheran Church and the monthly Uplift Meal Cooks at St. Sabina. Uplift is canning tomatoes, freezing veggies and made lots of pesto with ingredients we provided.
My daughter is a dialysis patient and her center put a call out in the newsletter to anyone who could donate extra produce from their garden’s to patients who can’t grow their own. We donated a basket or produce (more to come) and Angela (Best social worker ever) was nice enough to pose for our picture.
We hope you will share your photo in our contest. Thank you so much for sharing such an inspirational story of growing to give!
Andrew P., Gardener’s Supply Co
we are a large community garden where everything grown is given away free to anyone asking or needing, We estimate about 2000 people a year come through our free vegetable stand. We are going into our 9th year we have records showing the amounts given away yearly . We grow Broccoli, Cabbage, hot and sweet peppers, sweet corn, Kolirabi, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Beans, Egg plant, Kale, Summer Squash, Turnip greens, Green onions and everything is free. Can be seen at The lakes community garden on Face book
That sounds like quite an impressive community gardening effort! We hope you will enter a photo into our contest if you have not already for a chance to win and help grow your community garden!
Andrew P., Gardener’s Supply Co
Rapidan River Master Gardeners Demonstration Garden donated 276 pounds of produce this 2017 season to the local Culpeper VA Food Closet. Their mission is to feed the local families in need. Picture of some of the produce raised by Master Gardener Volunteers in the back of the car.
Rapidan River Master Gardeners Demonstration Garden volunteers donated 276 pounds of produce this 2017season to the local Culpeper VA Food Closet. Their mission is to feed the local families in need.
Bumper crop of tomatoes this year…for me half the fun of growing more than I need is giving it away. I share with neighbors quite often. One woman in particular has a very sick daughter and she asks for kale for her restricted diet. Another woman is a widow who appreciates all the tomatoes, beans, onions and garlic I send her way. I’m estimating, but I’ve probably given 100 tomatoes away this year and glad to be able to do so.
The photo that I submitted shows an afternoon’s harvest. My husband and I had a bountiful summer harvest of asparagus, strawberries, beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, cabbages, corn, herbs, beets, summer squash and peas this season. We shared the excess with friends, neighbors and I took many, many pounds of excess to share with co-workers who loved loved the fresh garden treats!