Rio Grande Food Project’s Urban Garden is a welcoming space to grow fresh fruits and vegetables on-site and help supplement our food boxes with the highest quality food. In 2019, staff and volunteers built the first 20 raised beds. Then in 2023, the Rio Grande Presbyterian Church gifted the adjacent former Rio Grande Community Garden to the Food Project to expand our food growing and garden education program. This doubled our capacity to grow supplemental produce on-site for the pantry.

We encourage anyone who visits us for food assistance, or any individual or group interested in helping us grow food for distribution, while learning how to prep, plant, and manage a garden alongside our wonderful partners from Albuquerque Master Gardeners, to contact us to come help out. No skills required, just an interest and desire to learn and “dig” in!

RGFP’s garden is a beautiful and inspiring place to learn, relax, and join our growing community. If you would like to help while discovering more about RGFP and gardening in general, email us at rgfp@rgfp.org.

RGFP also offers a variety of FREE classes and workshops throughout the growing season! Scroll down to see the latest class schedule.