Local Food Directory from the Farm to Your Table
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from the farm to your table Local�Food� Directory brought to you by: CONTENTS growing Dig into local community gardens, school gardens, market gardens, and farms. sharing Find out where to take that abundance of squash. marketing/eating Grab a local bite and maybe even sell your produce. celebrating Help local food grow. Welcome to Fresh, Arkansas Local Food Network’s directory of community and school gardens, farmers markets, stores and restaurants offering local options, hunger relief efforts seeking local food, organizations, and farms that invite you to visit and grow food. Fresh is online at www. arlocalfoodnetwork.org/Fresh. Visit the site to see a Google Earth map of gardens and other listings and to contact us with listing edits and updates. To find local food in Benton, Carroll, Madison, and Washington counties, visit the Feed Fayetteville Northwest Arkansas Local Food Guide at www.feedfayetteville.org/2011/10/nwa-local-food-guide/, or Feed Fayetteville at www.feedfayetteville.org. Arkansas Local Food Network (ALFN) operates an online farmers market at www.littlerock.locallygrown. net and www.lrmidweek.locallygrown.net. We also manage a Community Fund for food projects and Arkansas farms and market gardens, host workshops and fun food events, and much, much more. ALFN is dedicated to growing healthy farms, gardens, businesses, economy, and community. As a 501c3 nonprofit, we work to strengthen Arkansas farmers, promote the local food system, and support community food endeavors. Thank you to our advertisers and sponsors for making this publication possible: Juli Brandenberger Nao Ueda & Eddy Moore Katy Elliott Hal & Cindy Hedges Our mission is to grow the Erika Gee Glenda Burgess Megan Moss Bert & Erin Finzer freshest, tastiest, most Angela Gardner nutritious, chemical-free vegetables in the world. Editors: Katy Elliott, Sam Hedges, Nao Ueda, and Jackie Beatty Mapping: Kristy Marshall Editorial Photo Credit: The Bernice Garden Design: Ellen Brownlee Reyes GROWING Crump Park Community Garden Dunbar Community Garden Project Located in Crump Park, Little Rock 16th and Chester Streets community & school gardens At the intersection of 33rd and Chester Streets Near Sue Cowan Williams Library in Little Rock Contact Laverne Davis Contact Damian Thompson 8th Street Missionary Baptist Church [email protected] (501) 529-8520 Community Garden [email protected] 821 North Hickory, North Little Rock Cumberland Manor/Metropolitan Village www.dunbargarden.org Contact Mack Agnew Residents Garden www.facebook.com/dunbargarden (501) 244-2362 2721 Scott Street, Little Rock (501) 859-6187 Earth Connection Neighborhood Garden 12th Street Garden 1422 Bishop, Little Rock Gerald's House and Community Garden Dark Hollow CDC Garden (15th and Bishop Streets) 3802 West 12th Street, Little Rock 1221 Pine Street, North Little Rock Contact Arkansas Baptist College, Contact Theressa Hoover United Methodist Church Across from Hughes Employment Agency, one block Department of Development (501) 804-6495 west of Union Pacific RR yard (501) 244-5113 Contact Janice Martin, Project Supervisor 15th Street Garden (501) 758-1384 East 2nd Street Community Garden 15th and Louisiana, Little Rock www.darkhollowcdc.org 1913 East 2nd Street, North Little Rock Contact Sarah Smith, (501) 350-4024 Bethesda Community Garden www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Hollow-Community- Contact [email protected] [email protected] 3184 West 14th St, Little Rock Contact the Metropolitan Housing Alliance Development-Corporation/122130438593 (501) 376-1305 Argenta Community Garden (501) 340-4821 Dixie/Walnut Baptist Church Garden Eikon Community Garden 216 West 4th Street, North Little Rock www.lrhousing.org 1001 North “I” Street, North Little Rock 518 W. 9th Street, Little Rock At the Manees House (Junior League House), Contact (501) 945-7280 www.eikonthechurch.com Contact Monty Bradburn Booker Elementary School Garden (501) 753-4115, [email protected] or 2016 Barber Street, Little Rock Mike Rush, [email protected] Contact Phillip Hallum [email protected] Argenta Vegetable Garden (501) 447-6742 100 West 5th Street, North Little Rock (501) 773-7617 CANAS Victory Garden Project www.facebook.com/ArgentaVegetableGarden 700 South Valentine, Little Rock Planting the seeds Contact Ryan Boswell Arkansas Foodbank Network [email protected] to end poverty 4301 West 65th Street, Little Rock (816) 284-1933 at home At the Foodbank Network warehouse www.facebook.com/groups/canas/ (501) 565-8121 Heifer USA works every day www.arkansasfoodbank.org Carver Elementary School Garden to address the challenges 2100 East 6th Street, Little Rock of hunger and poverty at Bale Elementary School Garden Contact Gene Williams home in a sustainable and 6501 West 32nd Avenue, Little Rock [email protected] comprehensive manner . Contact Edna White [email protected] Cloverdale Middle School Garden (501) 447-3600 6300 Hinkson Road, Little Rock Contact Dishoungh White Bethel AME/Trinity Episcopal Unity Garden [email protected] Bethel AME Church 815 W. 16th Street, Little Rock (501) 374-2891 www.heifer.org/usa Ferncliff Camp Garden Grow Levy Community Garden 1720 Ferncliff Road, Little Rock West 54th Street and Allen, North Little Rock (501) 821-3063 Contact Bradley Byassee [email protected] (501) 940-5582 www.ferncliff.org [email protected] First Christian Church Community Garden Harrisburg Middle School 1500 North Mississippi, Little Rock 207 West Estes Street, Harrisburg Contact Bonnie Hutson (870) 578-2410 (501) 255-5656 Delta Garden Study [email protected] www.arteengarden.org First Presbyterian Church of Argenta Heritage House Garden Community Garden 2301 Division, North Little Rock 201 West 4th Street, North Little Rock Behind Heritage House high-rise housing complex Contact Rev. Anne Russ, (501) 374-7677 Contact Heritage House Activity Office [email protected] (501) 758-9941 eStem School Garden Marshall High School & Community Garden Highland Middle School 200 S. Commerce Street, Little Rock First United Methodist Church Community Garden 950 Hwy 65 North, Marshall 1627 Hwy 62-412, Hardy Contact (501) 374-STEM 723 Center Street, Little Rock Contact Heath Massey, (870) 448-3331 (870) 856-3284 [email protected] Contact Rev. Donna Hankins-Hull or Cale Nicholson, [email protected], Delta Garden Study (501) 372-2256 (501) 529-9920 www.arteengarden.org Faulkner County Museum Garden www.fumccommunitygarden.com Delta Garden Study www.arteengarden.org 801 Locust Street, Conway JA Fair High School Garden Project Contact CAAH! at [email protected] Forest Park Elementary School Garden 13420 David O. Dodd, Little Rock www.arkansasagro.wordpress.com 1600 North Tyler Street, Little Rock Contact Frank Troutman Monticello Middle School Contact Abigail Curry (501) 350-9475 935 Scogin Drive, Monticello The Field [email protected] (870) 367-4000 8016 Faulkner Lake Road, North Little Rock King Elementary School Garden Delta Garden Study Contact Aaron Reddin Franklin Elementary School Garden 905 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Little Rock www.arteengarden.org [email protected] 1701 South Harrison Street, Little Rock Contact Volunteers in Public Schools (ViPS) www.facebook.com/TheFieldatTheOne Contact Yvonne Roach (501) 447-ViPS Oak Forest Garden and Orchard (501) 447-4600 Conway Curran Park Felder Farm Mabelvale Middle School Garden 25th and Monroe Streets , Little Rock 6900 Pecan Street, Little Rock Fulbright Elementary School Garden 10811 Mabelvale West, Little Rock Contact Debbie Preston Contact Nathanael Wills, [email protected] 300 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock (501) 447-3000 (501)309-9830, (501) 663-6550, or www.felderfarm.com Contact Volunteers in Public Schools (ViPS) Delta Garden Study [email protected] www.facebook.com/pages/Felder-Farm/144924545817 (501) 447-ViPS www.arteengarden.org www.facebook.com/oakforestcommunitygarden 1401 S. Main St. in Little Rock For more information, contact Liz Sanders, Market Manager (501) 617-2511 [email protected] SUNDAYS 10am-2pm (May-Oct) www.thebernicegarden.org Parris Towers Residents Garden Rotary Community Garden Sturbridge Neighborhood Garden 1800 Broadway Street, Little Rock 113 North Jackson Street, Magnolia Contact Julie Majors (501) 340-4752 www.facebook.com/RotaryCommunityGarden (501) 413-6884 www.sturbridgegardens.blogspot.com Pulaski County Garden Center Sherman Park Community Gardens 6722 Two Rivers Drive, Little Rock 1201 East 4th Street and 1521 East 2nd Street, Terry Elementary Garden At Two Rivers Park in Pulaski County North Little Rock 10800 Mara Lynn Drive, Little Rock (501) 868-9816 Contact Sherman Park CDC, James Lawson Contact Linda Mellberg (501) 258-6990 [email protected] Rockefeller Elementary Garden [email protected] 700 East 17th Street, Little Rock Trinity Community Garden Contact Volunteers in Public Schools (ViPS) Skyline Community Garden Trinity Episcopal Church, 310 West 17th, Little Rock (501) 447-ViPS Near 257 Skyline Drive, North Little Rock Contact Stephen Kidd or Philip Buck Across from the Justin Matthews Junior House (501) 372-0294 or (501) 258-9075 Rose City Middle School Garden Contact Susan Gunter UALR Native Campus Garden 5500 Lynch Drive, North Little Rock (501) 347-4173 3308 Fair Park Boulevard, Little Rock Contact The People Tree, (501) 955-3600 [email protected] [email protected] Contact UALR Garden Committee area farms & market gardens www.facebook.com/thepeopletree [email protected] There are many