Help Support Friendship Gardens

We believe everyone should have access to fresh, healthy food. Our programs stem from that belief and help us live out our mission.

Why Give

Friendship Gardens depends on contributions from individuals just like you for the bulk of our operating expenses. Consider this…

A four raised garden beds cost $340 to build and can produce 300 pounds of produce per season—that’s a little over a dollar for a pound of locally-grown organic food!
$725 of organic soil enriches a half-acre farm that produces over 7,000 pounds of produce per year
Farming is hot/cold/wet/exhausting/rewarding work. Your contribution—along with our farm managers’ sweat equity—makes our garden grow and thrive!

Your commitment to supporting our program ensures we can continue to serve and grow. Build a bed. Support a farmer. Buy some manure. And then consider doing it again next year!

Recurring donations are extremely helpful and give us a clear financial projection to plan our programs for the upcoming year.

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Ways to Give

By Credit Card

The PayPal account will say “Friendship Trays.” Don’t worry! We are a program of Friendship Trays. In the “In Memory/Honor of” section, write “Friendship Gardens.” That way your donation will be designated to our program.

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Donate via PayPal

By Check

Friendship Gardens is a programmatic arm of Friendship Trays and therefore all checks should be made out to Friendship Trays. Please write “Friendship Gardens Donation” in the memo line.

Checks should be mailed to:

Friendship Trays
2401-A Distribution St.
Charlotte, NC 28203

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We believe everyone should have access to fresh, healthy food.

Friendship Gardens—based in Charlotte, North Carolina—is a thriving network of community, school, faith-based, institutional, and backyard gardens as well as an urban farm. Most of our garden partnerships share their harvest for the benefit of Friendship Trays who provide over 750 meals a day to members of our community who have limited access to healthy food; and for the benefit of The Bulb who run a network of mobile markets in food-insecure neighborhoods throughout Mecklenburg County and beyond.

Friendship Gardens
A Program of Friendship Trays
Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Meal-On-Wheels Program

2401-A Distribution Street
Charlotte, NC 28203

704.333.9229