Fonticello Food Forest is a community garden located in Richmond, Virginia within Carter Jones/ Fonticello Park in the city’s southside. Our space is designed to uplift the intrinsic beauty and wonder of nature by focusing on biodiversity and nature immersion, and we strive to be a collaborative ecosystem to feed humans and all of the living creatures of our shared environment.
WAYS TO BE INVOLVED
Food Distribution:
Currently our FREE FarmStand is every Wednesday.
You can come to any FarmStand to help set up, break down, go through produce for compost, or help in the food forest with weeding or planting: there’s always lots to do on Wednesdays.
Our vision is to transition the FarmStand into an “always open” rotating free farm stand and food pantry, assisted by a network of volunteers who gather viable produce to rotate into the farm stand and composting what can no longer be used.
Ecosystem Planting, Planning and Support:
Are you invested in planting some plants or fruit trees? Or designing raised garden beds for community gleeing? Or native pollinators? Mushrooms? Harvesting water and wetland retention? Natural play areas and nature based education? Want to help contribute to the Food Forest park plan?
Whatever your passion, we can help connect you to the many resources available for helping Fonticello Food Forest realize our vision. This often requires extensive work (emailing, calling, developing, permits, funding, grant writing, community planning, educational signage, volunteer scheduling, and promotion) BUT if YOU are willing and have the capacity, then lots of inspiring things can happen.
Email: FonticelloFoodForest@gmail.com
Press Links
https://enrichmond.org/2019/10/a-tree-grows-in-fonticello/
https://vpm.org/news/articles/34337/fonticello-food-forest-cultivates-produce-community
https://richmondmagazine.com/news/sunday-story/feeding-community/
https://www.emporiaindependentmessenger.com/news/article_b53db5be-c7bf-11ec-ba8e-2f8152a6f35a.html