Our Members

The Farm Alliance of Baltimore is a membership organization of urban farms, neighborhood growers, and friends. We use connection, resource sharing, and collective advocacy with respect to food, land and water to expand communities’ self-determination and power.

Any production-oriented farm or garden that is growing food in Baltimore City and meets eligibility requirements may apply to become a member of the Farm Alliance on our Membership page.

Below is an interactive map and profiles of our current member farms and gardens. Click the farm name to learn about their history, where they farm, what they grow, where they sell, volunteer opportunities, and more.

 

Farm Members

  • Acres4Change
    Acres4Change mission is to foster economic stability by promoting equitable land ownership, providing comprehensive professional development opportunities, and facilitating racial healing.
  • Atwaters Big Kitchen Farm
    Founded in 2016 on what was once a parking lot, Atwaters Big Kitchen Farm is now 10 garden beds and 2 large hoop houses. They grow herbs, flowers and vegetables for their cafe sales direct to consumer and their soup/salad making kitchen.
  • Baltimore Free Farm
    Baltimore Free Farm is an egalitarian collective of gardeners and activists who aim to provide access to healthy food for all. The farm began in 2010 by leasing a vacant lot from Baltimore City, and then clearing the trash and invasive weeds to begin their first garden. They have since expanded to manage three lots (about 0.6 acres) to add a community garden, a permaculture garden, and a production garden. The Free Farm grows a variety of vegetables and herbs, and has started experimenting with fruit trees and shrubs.
  • Black Yield Institute
    Pan-African power institution based in Baltimore, Maryland, serving as a think tank and collective action network that addresses food apartheid. Since our beginning in November 2015, we have worked collaboratively with black people and entities, along with other institutions, in pursuit of Black land and food sovereignty.
  • Bon Secours Community Works Urban Farm
    The Bon Secours Urban Farm began as a program of Community Works, a neighborhood resource center in West Baltimore affiliated with the nearby hospital that seeks to serve the surrounding community with a variety of programs. They are operating a 1/4 acre site, directly across from the local community center, that produces food for their neighbors and educates the community about healthy eating and growing practices.
  • City of Refuge Victory Garden
    Located in Brooklyn Baltimore, The City of Refuge garden has a mission to create, educate and inspire green living in Baltimore.
  • Day 1 Supply Microgreens
    Day 1 Supply provides a source of nutritious food for people to consume that can give them energy and vitamins at a affordable cost.
  • Feel Good Florals
    Feel Good Florals is a micro urban cut flower farm, growing and selling seasonal cut flowers complemented with self-love exercises individuals can use to (1) strengthen their relationships with themselves, (2) increase their capacity to regulate their emotions, and (3) improve their response to stressors.
  • Filbert Street Community Garden
    Filbert Street Garden is a community garden and farm located in Curtis Bay beside the historic water tower that aims to provide the community with fresh food through farming and education. They are dedicated to gardening and animal husbandry through their 1 acre plot, bee-yard, and free range fowl. As a part of their commitment to urban wildlife, their pollinator and native bat projects allow for the maintenance of a healthy and balanced ecosystem in the urban landscape of Curtis Bay. Each season they have plots available for patrons to garden.
  • The Greener Garden
    Located in the Hamilton area of Baltimore City, the Greener Garden has provided their community with fresh vegetables for over 20 years thanks to the incredible efforts of Farmers Lavette and Warren Blue.
  • Gifted Hands
    Gifted Hands is a Woman led agro venture highlighting the versatility and nutritional value of indigenous crops.
  • Green Street Academy Farms
    Green Street Academy Farms is an urban farm that provides a wide range of educational experiences, applying classroom STEM studies to sustainable farm practices, focused around career skills, entrepreneurship, Agriculture business, and self-reliance, as well as providing fresh produce for free or affordable prices to the community.  
  • Harlem Park Community Farm
    Hope Garden in Harlem Park, is a school garden especially built for the children and families of the Harlem Park neighborhood. It’s a family friendly garden and all are welcome.
  • Hidden Harvest Farm
    Hidden Harvest Farm’s goal is to create a beautiful and bountiful space in which flowers, fruit, vegetables, insects, birds, and humans live harmoniously. They grow food out of a desire to be more connected with the earth and the spaces around them, as well as to learn and to teach.
  • Hidden Harvest Annex Dye Garden – Blue Light Junction
    Blue Light Junction is a natural dye studio, alternative color lab, retail space, dye garden & educational facility in central Baltimore. Founded by textile artist, farmer, and natural dyer Kenya Miles, Blue Light Junction is focused on growing, processing, and preserving the history of natural dyes and their artistic, practical, and commercial applications. The Natural Dye Garden is located in the “annex” lot of Hidden Harvest Farm in Greenmount West. We continue to gain knowledge of plants native to our bio-region as well as exploring historical and medicinal plants and fibers.
  • Hillen Homestead
    Hillen Homestead is a small urban farm growing sustainable cut flowers on two sites in Baltimore City totaling less than ¼ acre. They are committed to our community, our city, and our planet. They are fully dedicated to the community, hosting free events and providing free classes on numerous subjects in agriculture.
  • Our Community Garden of Sandtown
    Our Community Garden(OCG) includes a community vegetable garden, a workshop area, a fruit tree orchard, a community apiary, a pollinator garden, a small flock of chickens, and a cut flower garden. They host summer camps, after school programs, and a variety of other neighborhood groups. They also participate in the Care-A-Lot program that allows us to hire youth to help with upkeep throughout the year.
  • The 6th Branch – Oliver Community Farm & Johnston Square Farm
    The Oliver Community Farm is a ¼ acre farm in East Baltimore that is working to provide fresh produce to the Oliver Community Farm and combat food insecurity. The farm was started in 2013 and has continued to grow! The 6th Branch, a veteran led nonprofit, and Meraki Community Uplift, an Oliver based nonprofit, are working together to grow and distribute produce to the Oliver community through the farm.
  • Queen Cat Honey
    Operating multiple bee hives in the Govans and Waverly area founded around 2010. Producing Royal jelly, bee pollen, honey and propolis. Making tinctures and educating people about the benefits to health and longevity that bee products can bring.
  • Rock Rose Food Justice Project
    A nonprofit urban farm committed to growing food for Baltimore’s food insecure communities, and teaching organic farming practices and land stewardship to Baltimore youth.
  • Real Food Farm
    Real Food Farm works toward a just and sustainable food system by improving neighborhood access to healthy food, providing experience-based education, and developing an economically viable, environmentally responsible local agriculture sector.
  • Strength to Love 2
    Strength To Love 2 is a community based farm that provides hands-on agricultural training and jobs opportunities to citizens in the Sandtown-Winchester community. The farm is a collective of high tunnels at Lorman and Fulton Avenues. Located on a 1.5 acre plot, the farm is operated by Intersection of Change and managed by people of faith and returning citizens.
  • Whitelock Community Farm
    Whitelock Community Farm is a vibrant open space that grows food and activates community to promote social equity in the neighborhood.

Garden Members