Urban Seeds

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Nourishing Our Community

High School Story Challenge

Urban Seeds invites all local high school students to explore the intersection of food justice with culture, poverty, disparity, and assumptions, using the medium of your choice:

Speech | Essay | Video | Poem | Song

Using your choice of the following prompts, please tell us how you see the Mission and Vision of Urban Seeds connecting to food justice.

1. How do our environments affect accessibility to and our relationship with food?

2. How do our traditions with food relate to our health?

3. How does food build community?

4. How does food break down barriers and overcome stereotypes?

5. What changes could be made to ensure everyone has equal opportunity to access nutritious foods?

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Our Mission

Urban Seeds advocates for a quality, equitable, and robust food system, increasing access to healthy,
nourishing food for all.

Our Vision

All people in southwest Indiana are empowered, motivated, and able to make healthful food choices.

 

Growing Strong Local Food Systems

Urban Seeds was founded in 2005 as an urban community garden project. Based in Evansville, Indiana, our 501c3 non-profit organization now works to create food systems that provide access to nourishing foods for all of our community members, with a focus on locally grown produce and locally prepared foods.

We partner with schools, like-minded organizations, children’s centers, shelters, faith-based organizations, businesses and non-profits to create a healthy community, in which all of our neighbors are supported — be it as a food grower, a food producer, or a food consumer. The Evansville area is home to a deep disparity in access to nourishing food that we work to lessen in the coming years, through community partnerships and outreach.

Our Initiatives

  • Urban Seeds is the lead organization for Nourish, Community Food Buying Club
  • We provide cooking demonstrations at community events and to small and large community groups, emphasizing a “shopping and cooking on a budget” theme
  • Urban Seeds has the FNS contract to administer SNAP benefits at the farmers markets
  • We are a proud partner of Healthy Communities Partnership to
    • offer a pop-up farmers market at the WIC center
    • offer healthy snacks at school concession stands
    • create new food access points within the Promise Zone

Our Core Values

  • Equality
  • Health
  • Access
  • Community Connectivity & Collaboration
  • Education
  • Experiences
  • Dignity