Welcome

Helping neighbors grow and share healthy food and relationships

Discover What We Do

Video music by Jonathan Nicholson


Our Goal:
Cultivating a Healthy Community

We seek to build healthy relationships with one another and every member of the environment.

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Four community members smiling and standing in front of a garden with a Growing Neighbors yard sign.

Get Involved in a Community Garden

We start and expand communally tended gardens that are hyper-localized, co-designed, organic, and regenerative

Want to Collaborate?

We collaborate with a wide variety of community partners to help neighbors of diverse backgrounds grow & share healthy food & relationships.

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Programs

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Community Gardens

At the heart of Growing Neighbors is the Community Gardens, whether in family yards, schools or empty lots.

A long table with man and woman serving food to community members, buffet style.

Communal Meals

Neighbors helping neighbors through sharing knowledge, produce and love in local communities.

A counter with a bowl of fresh produce and a large cooking pan with chopped vegetables inside. A pair of gloves hands chops an onion beside the pan.

Workshops

Workshops on gardening, cooking, art and more are organized on a seasonal basis for all ages.

Three community members standing smiling in front of an open trunk of a car, one of them holding a produce box.

Sustainable Food Deliveries

Partnering with local food banks/distributors to share food that is already in the neighborhood.

A man and woman stand next to a new Little Free Pantry wrapped a ribbon with a bow. Beside them is a table of goodies to commemorate.

Little Free Pantries

Take what you need. Give what you can. Growing Neighbors builds, fills and supports Little Free Pantries.

Three women of varying ages smile and hold a box containing berry baskets with berries.

Sharing at Markets

Growing Neighbors shares healthy produce at two different farmers’ markets in Spokane.


GN in the News

Fig Tree Article
April 2026

Spokesman Review
GN Growing Food & Community
January 2026

Spokesman Review
Sn̓k̓ʷan̓ɬqtn̓ Community Garden
October 2025

The Inlander
Tour de Farms & Harvest Swap
September 2025

The Inlander
Spring Gardening
April 2025

New Story Spokane Podcast
November 2024

Spokesman Review
Difference Makers
December 2023

PICCE Community Engagement Institute Bob Talk
May 2023

Rocks to Roots Podcast
October 2021

Spokesman Review
About GN
August 2017


Help Us Grow!

Share Sponsors

Better Health Together

Plant Sponsors

Waters Meet

Growing Neighbors is a non-profit, fiscally sponsored by Smith-Barbieri.
2020 Growing Neighbors

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Contact Information

PO Box 9372
Spokane, WA 99209-9372

541-286-5059

growingneighbors509@gmail.com