Organize an Event

Bring your friends together to celebrate gardening, healthy food and community. Be creative and come up with your own ways to celebrate. For example, you might:

• Come together in the Spring to create a common garden plot.
• Organize a group of neighbors to enter into a community-supported agriculture buying arrangement with a local farmer.
• Have a master gardener train others on agroecological techniques.
• Diversify – share a planting technique and seedling with each other.
• Enjoy a mid-Summer feast with local food picked from friends’ gardens.
• Work together to create a teaching garden at a local school.
• Hold an Autumn harvest party.
• Host a “county fair” where everyone brings their best chili, pies or potato salad. Give the tastiest a blue ribbon.

Now is the time for us to work together in communities across the world to build a better food system.  Organizing a Garden Party helps to do that in your community while enabling Groundswell to support local food movements and agroecological production and contribute to creating healthy communities in Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Haiti and elsewhere.
Groundswell was founded by and is largely run by dedicated volunteers, and it is our hope that you will join us in this spirit of partnership. Building a global network of supporters, partners and allies is vital to our efforts to overcome poverty, inequality and ecological destruction.

Learn more by downloading the Groundswell Garden Party brochure or emailing us at volunteer@groundswellinternational.org.