Ending Food Insecurity with efficient philanthropy

We are fundraising to meet our 2021 goal of growing 100k lbs of fresh produce and building over 100 urban micro-farms!

Our fundraising goal of $100k will enable our team to expand our Co-Harvesting capabilities to keep up with the urgent issue of childhood food-insecurity and environmental injustice. Your donations will go directly towards the creation/maintanence of urban micro-farms which grow healthy, sustainable produce for the community. Please donate today to create a more compassionate and efficient food-system. 

Co-Harvest connects the missing links in our food system through efficient food production and distribution. We were founded with the goal of empowering our communities by creating the infrastructure for everyone to grow their own healthy food. By setting up home-gardens (including seeds, starter plants, irrigation) and educating residents, we are able to foster self-reliance and food-sovereignty all while improving the environment. All food produced at a Co-Harvest micro-farms is eaten on site or distributed directly to local food insecure families. 

We attempt to serve the community by increasing the peoples' health, increasing our ability to live sustainability and evolving our educational systems to include environmental stewardship and philanthropy.

The founders of this nonprofit believe one of the most systemically ingrained issues in San Diego's culture is the poor health of our children. Of San Diego County’s 3.3 million residents, 494,439 people face food insecurity every day. Of this number, 164,137 are children. Our goal is to focus on the health and future of children in at-risk communities and give them the opportunity to gain hands on skills while building community based food resources. One of the most important aspects of our work is the personal development and community building that materializes when youth participate in civic engagement and community service. Our devotion to youth outreach and community health will create a space for at-risk youth to work on their interpersonal skills while also building lasting community bonds around healthy food and sustainable practices.

By growing residential/urban vegetable gardens and Micro-Farms, especially with organic practices, we are dedicated to reducing the demands put on our land by commercial agriculture. We recognize that by creating an efficient chain of production and consumption within a community we are able to reduce the energy used to put food on your plate, help keep our waterways clean by reducing the demand for water to irrigate, and reducing the chemical load entering our waterways from fertilizers and pesticides. All of these reasons make residential vegetable production an essential part of a modern and sustainable environmental ethic. The regenerative nature of our mission is evident in our composting pick-up program. By creating a system of residential composting we are reducing our climate impact while regenerating healthy soil in our communities.

A key component in creating a healthy, sustainable community is developing pathways for self-empowerment and economic mobility. By building a network of educated growers, communities are more resilient to food-price fluctuations and have a greater ability to build community relationships that foster public participation. Educating youth and their families about the economic efficiency of growing food and the biophysical importance of healthy eating can empower community efforts at self-sustainability and the fight against gentrification.

Help us end food-insecurity, one urban foodscape at a time!