Helping neighbors grow and share healthy food and relationships
Join us in treating neighbors more like family, and the planet more like our common home!
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.


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.


Join Our Mission
Our vision is to see all local neighbors treating the whole community of creation more like family. Join us in cultivating an ecosystem where fresh expressions of a healthy community can take root, grow, and thrive.
Thank you for your help making our 2025 Matching Gift Campaign a success! Click below for our 2025 video with an overview of our programs and impact!
Programs

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

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

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

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

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

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!
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Plant Sponsors

Growing Neighbors is a non-profit, fiscally sponsored by Smith-Barbieri.
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Contact Information
PO Box 9372
Spokane, WA 99209-9372
541-286-5059
growingneighbors509@gmail.com
