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Garden-Raised Bounty (GRuB) is a grassroots non-profit organization dedicated to nourishing community by empowering people to engage in the creation of a sustainable food system. We grow inspired, self-confident and community-minded youth through educational and employment opportunities. We...
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Garden-Raised Bounty (GRuB) is a grassroots non-profit organization dedicated to nourishing community by empowering people to engage in the creation of a sustainable food system. We grow inspired, self-confident and community-minded youth through educational and employment opportunities. We improve quality of life and nutrition of low-income seniors through therapeutic garden programs. We help low-income families to help themselves by building raised-bed gardens at their homes. Our work is guided by our core values: caring youth and adult partnerships, strong communities, sustainable land stewardship, education, and good food for all people. We work in Thurston & Mason counties in Washington State.
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Cultivating Youth Program – The mission is to grow inspired, self-confident, community-minded youth by offering them leadership opportunities in addressing issues of hunger and poverty in our area. Our outcomes for these youth include higher self-esteem, better nutrition, a sense of civic...
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Cultivating Youth Program – The mission is to grow inspired, self-confident, community-minded youth by offering them leadership opportunities in addressing issues of hunger and poverty in our area. Our outcomes for these youth include higher self-esteem, better nutrition, a sense of civic responsibility, and successful high school completion with a secure plan for higher education or meaningful employment. Participants achieve these outcomes through hard work at the gardens, fieldtrips to local farms, managing their own marketing program, positive adult-youth partnerships, and meaningful interaction with seniors.

Kitchen Garden Project (KGP) – The mission is to help low-income people to help themselves by becoming home food producers with high yielding vegetable gardens. The primary purpose of this program is the installation of complete vegetable gardens for low-income people either at their homes, as community gardens at low-income housing projects, or at institutions that serve low-income and disadvantaged people. Families are able to grow up to $500 worth of vegetables each year. We build, deliver seeds, plants, and fertilizer to, and offer support for 85 to 100 individual gardens each year. This approach to hunger is simple, cost-effective, and empowering. Now in its eleventh season, the Kitchen Garden Project has given over 1,500 gardens to low-income individuals and families.
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We employ 15 youth every summer in a year long position based at our small farm (see above).