”To Plant Seeds Grow Food Create Opportunity for People”

Our Mission

“To Plant Seeds Grow Food Create Opportunity for People”
Everyone deserves a healthy meal. Abundant Harvest is a community resource for locally-sourced organic produce and sustainable food production systems. We provide the community with completely natural produce and fish, available for purchase and donation.

 

Our History

Abundant Harvest began as a community garden and has flourished into an aquaponics farm and education center. We have been providing enrichment education, employment opportunities, and service learning since 2010. Through our unique collaborations, we’ve provided thousands of pounds of organic produce to needy families in our community.

Organizations like Food Rescue, God’s Pantry, Common Cause, and Urban Peak receive food from Abundant Harvest to help provide organic produce to needy individuals, homeless teens, and underprivileged families that otherwise couldn’t afford nutritious, high-quality vegetables. Abundant Harvest Community Garden Outreach is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

 

Our Community

Members of the Colorado Springs community are key to the success of Abundant Harvest. This includes support from dozens of volunteers, students, and others who both help in gardening, harvesting, food preparation, and distribution. They also join us in learning the craft of growing nutritious food using the aquaponics method.

Plans To Expand

Abundant Harvest built a prototype “hoop house” style greenhouse to demonstrate how efficient a closed-loop technique for producing fish and vegetables can be using aquaponics. We more than doubled our food production but found that the prototype greenhouse has serious limitations. The building is poorly ventilated and insulated making it unsuitable when temperatures are below freezing for much of the winter and soar to 120 degrees in the summer.

The good news is that there is a development plan to build 4 energy-efficient 4000 sq. ft. aquaponics facilities for growing vegetables, herbs, and fish, using up to 90% less water compared to “traditional” farming.

The development of 4 energy-efficient greenhouses (Sprung Structures), Farmers Market, eventually an Aquaculture and Sustainability Institute will provide a space for a variety of organizations to explore approaches to creating a more educated, equitable society that sustains and enhances the earth’s eco-systems.

Our mission will continue to include the donation of 50% of harvested produce and fish to needy families in the community through charitable food distributors.

JENNY SPENCER

MONGOLIA

ZHANG CHEY

TIBET

JAHA IZEGBE

NAMIBIA

Doing the right thing,
at the right time.

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CAUSES

100

VOLOUNTEERS

47

CHILDREN

10

COUNTRY

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