Donate to support our programs!
Through our Grow the Farm Campaign Roots is raising $80,000 to to fund Wild Willow Farm & Education Center through June 2011.
Your donation, of any size, will help us create a community farm space, bring students to the farm to learn about where their food comes from, host farming and gardening workshops, and train a new generation of sustainable San Diego farmers.
Up until now Roots has been funded primarily on donations of supportive San Diego individuals and businesses, and now that we have finally found land to fulfill our longtime vision your help is needed more than ever!
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If you'd like to make a tax-deductible donation using a check, please send it to:
San Diego Roots
PO Box 33285
San Diego, California 92163-3285
Donor Levels
Seeds up to $99
Rogerlynn Olsen
Lauree Sahba in honor of Jay and Katie's wedding!
Lynn Brule
Julie Bergman
John E. Basich
Margaret M. Winkler
Juanita & Lee Van Ham
Anastasia & Richard Rechif
Edible San Diego
Robert Shumard
Joan E. Marrero
Kurt Wenger
Anna Masters
Sally Tinker Smith & Jeffrey Smith
Shiela Krotz
Jennifer Joe
Suzanne Aurilio
Mike Higgins
Shirley DemerSprouts $100 to $249
Samantha Ollinger
Jeannie E. Sheinin
Buffalo Exchange
Ann Marie Villegas (in honor of Alex Villegas)
Jeffrey E. Fancy
Melissa Butler
Michael Wangler
Mary Marston
Hedy MacDonald
Sarah Boltwala-MesinaCrops $250 to $499
Ocean Beach People's Organic Food Co-op
Groupon, Inc.
Bob Greenamyer
Bushels $500 to $999
Harvest $1000+
Ocean Beach People's Organic Food Co-op
Jimbo's Naturally
The Linkery
Anthropologie (Urban Outfitters)
Anonymous
Antoinette Mantz
Aaron Coleman & Jesica Oratowski
Anonymous
Anonymous
(Jack) Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation
Regina Manianand you?
GRANTS AWARDED
Ocean Beach People's Organic Food Co-op. The co-op granted Wild Willow Farm $6000 in May, 2011 to fund our School Field Trip coordinator. This funding supports sixth graders from local schools to come the the farm for field trips and helps us develop the role of the farm's Education Coordinator to create a fun, informative and interactive farm experience for school kids of all ages and areas of San Diego.
CPPW/HealthyWorks. In May, 2011 Wild Willow Farm was named as one of five Regional Garden Education Centers that will train a corp of garden educators to teach how to grow grow food at home, schools and community gardens in our region. The grant is for $10,000, with another $2000 for a garden tool lending library.
Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW)/HealthyWorks. CPPW-CHIP has funded $24,900 and is working in 2011 and 2012 with San Diego Roots' Victory Gardens San Diego program (VGSD) to implement and operate five Regional Garden Training Centers to train home, school and community garden educaters and to build a user-friendly website that provides gardening information and directories for home, school, and community gardeners and organizations.
CPPW is a program of the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, funded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is working with the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Community Health Improvement Partners (CHIP), and the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative (COI) to support the CPPW School and Community Gardens Intervention, a policy and environmental change initiative to advance the development of sustainable school and community gardens.
The Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation, Fall 2010. The charitable arm of musician/songwriter Jack Johnson generously donated $3000 and invited us to participate in the "Village Green" at their concert in Chula Vista in October 2010.
Patagonia Voice Your Choice Award, Fall 2009. Customers of Patagonia Cardiff store chose San Diego Roots as first-place award recipients of $2500 to support our projects.
The Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation, Fall 2008. The charitable arm of musician/songwriter Jack Johnson generously donated $3000 and invited us to participate in the "Village Green" at their concert in Chula Vista in August 2008.
The San Diego Women's Foundation, June, 2007: "Seeds of Leadership" grant of $31,500 to fund a summer student apprenticeship and after-school program for students of the Terra Nova Academy at Morse High School.
The Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation: $5000 "seed" grant to help further our on-the-ground efforts to grow food locally.
Western Growers Association: $1000 grant to help develop the Terra Nova Garden.
Captain Planet: $500 grant to help develop the Terra Nova Garden.
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