Meet Some of Our Garden Partners
Every Garden is Completely Unique.

(These Gardens Don’t Just Grow Peppers, They Grow Entire Neighborhoods.)

Partner Spotlights
Rockaway Youth Task Force
The Rockaways
Located in the heart of a food desert, Rockaway Youth Task Force’s community garden is a thriving oasis amidst bodegas, fast food restaurants, and grocery stores shuttered since Hurricane Sandy devastated the area in 2012.
New Roots Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City
Small Axe Peppers partners with the International Rescue Committee to help newly settled refugees earn income through farming as they transition to their new life in America.
Brook Park Youth Farm
Mott Haven
At Brook Park Youth Farm, the garden's primary caretakers are teenagers with criminal records who were sent to work in the garden through a court order as an alternative to incarceration.
La Finca Del Sur
Mott Haven
La Finca del Sur is an urban farm in Mott Haven led by women of color, highlighting the agricultural heritage of its farmers who have roots in the American and global south.
Garden of Happiness
Tremont
A lifelong resident of New York City, Karen Washington has spent decades turning empty urban lots in the Bronx into community gardens.
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
Chicago
Semillas de Justicia stands as a great example of community efforts to redevelop brownfields, and uplift green open spaces in Little Village and Chicago in general.
Gleaners Community Garden, The Detroit Food Zoo
Detroit
By demonstrating various ways to grow healthy foods, the Food Zoo is able to showcase how growing your own food can be an empowering tool to reducing food insecurity and hunger.
Truly Living Well, Atlanta
Atlanta
Small Axe Peppers partners with Truly Living Well Atlanta to bring good food, good health and well-being to Atlanta’s urban community.
Solano Canyon Community Garden, Los Angeles
Al Renner helped supervise a group of young gang members on a garden project in Silver Lake, and knew first hand the benefits of putting forgotten people to work with forgotten land.
La Madera Community Garden, Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Currently over 30 families, many of them with Asian or Latin American roots, cultivate plots in the garden under the leadership of the volunteer Garden Manager, Carmen Macias. A diversity of languages, cultural techniques and growing practices from across the world converge at this 17,000 square foot site, owned by a generous private landowner who leases the land for a nominal fee.
Young Men’s Educational Network (YMEN) in Chicago
Chicago
YMEN serves about 150 families weekly by providing academic support and skill enhancement, entrepreneurial training, arts education, value-based enhancement classes as well as mentoring, tutoring, sports/recreation and a wide variety of field trip experiences
New Vision Community Church of Laredo
Detroit
The Texas Hot Sauce, which is made from peppers grown and harvested by immigrants and refugees that make up this beautiful community.

Hot Sauce Pepper Garden Partners

Padre Plaza Success Garden, The Bronx
Morning Glory Garden, The Bronx
Garden of Happiness, The Bronx
La Finca Del Sur Urban Farm, The Bronx
Lilburn Community Garden, Atlanta
Brook Park Youth Farm, The Bronx
New Roots Community Garden, The Bronx
The Lehman Edible Garden, The Bronx
Bissel Gardens, The Bronx
Community Foodscapes, Atlanta
Drew Gardens, The Bronx
New Roots, Sacramento
Intervale Green Rooftop Farm, The Bronx
Libertad Urban Farm, The Bronx
The Little Green Garden/Rock Garden, The Bronx
New York Botanical Garden, The Bronx
The Point CDC, The Bronx
Havemeyer Garden Association, The Bronx
Rincon Criollo, The Bronx
New Roots, Phoenix
Wishing Well Garden, The Bronx
Kelly Street Garden, The Bronx
Community Access Davidson Garden, The Bronx
Friends of Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx
Rivers Run Community Garden, The Bronx
Bathgate Community Garden, The Bronx
Pelham Organics Garden, The Bronx
Clay Avenue Community Garden, The Bronx
Dewitt Clinton High School, The Bronx
Eagle Slope Community Garden, The Bronx
Rock Garden, The Bronx
TAQWA Community Farm, The Bronx
River Garden, The Bronx
J.M Rapport High School, The Bronx
Marble Hill House Garden, The Bronx
Morris Campus Farm, The Bronx
Korean American Family Service Center, Queens
The Sunnyside Community Garden, Queens
New Roots, Charlottesville
Smiling Hogshead Ranch, Queens
The John Bowne Agricultural Program, Queens
Queens Botanical Garden, Queens
The Healing Garden, Queens
Youth FarmWorks, San Diego
New Roots, Tucson
Whitelock Community Farm, Baltimore
Pop! Farm, Baltimore
FarmWorks Heartland Alliance, Chicago
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization Community Garden, Chicago
Big Green, Chicago
Catatumbo Cooperative Farm, Chicago
Your Bountiful Harvest, Detroit
D-Town Farm, Detroit
Cadillac Urban Farm, Detroit
Detroit food zoo 2
Bottoms Up Community Garden, Oakland
Knox Hartford Community Garden, Hartford
Vermont Square Community Garden, Los Angeles
Mott Street Urban Farm, Los Angeles
Hope The Friendly Garden On The Hill, Harlem
Solano Canyon Community Garden, Los Angeles
La Madera Community Garden, Los Angeles
Karenni Hot Pepper Farm, Mason, Michigan
Blackacre Conservancy, Louisville, Kentucky
Williams Park Garden, North Branch, Minnesota
Sharing Garden, Monroe, Oregon
Sierra Vista Garden, Sierra Vista, Arizona
Cuyahoga Falls Community Garden, Cleveland, Ohio
Geneva Park District, Geneva, Illinois
Penfield Victory Community Garden, Penfield, New York
Mobile Urban Growers, Mobile, Alabama
Wylde Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Kingsbridge Heights Community Garden, Bronx New York
Growing Place Garden, Hurtst, Texas
South Orange Community Garden, New Jersey
God’s Community Garden, Middletown, Rhode Island
Mayfield Community Garden, Chicago, Illinois
Overland Community Garden, Overland Park, Kansas
McPherson Community Garden, St. Louis, Missouri
The Library Farm, Cicero, New York
Great Falls Community Garden, Great Falls, Massachusetts
Lilburn Community Garden, Lilburn Georgia
Hesston Community Garden, Hesston Kansas
Brownsville Community Garden, Oregon
Chino Community Garden, Chino
Cicero Library Farm, Cicero
community sprouts, Marietta
Fountain Community Gardens, Los Angeles
Digging In The Dirt – A Schoolyard Garden, Surf City
Unity Garden: Orchard, Dallas
Jeremiah’s Community Garden, Plano
Huerta del Valle, Ontario
Little Sugar Creek Community Garden, Charlotte
McMicken Community Garden, Cincinnati
MUSC Urban farm farewell
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Garden, Cincinnati
Duncannon Area Community Garden, Duncannon
Greenville Community Garden, Greenville
Clinton Township Organic Community Garden, Annandale