Growing Roots Together

Cultivate the City was created to inspire healthy and sustainable living by empowering communities with tools and training for urban agriculture.

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EDUCATING OUR YOUTH 

Our future generations are counting on new solutions to help our communities thrive. Our school garden programs offer students opportunities to plant, grow, harvest, manage, and sell their own produce, learning invaluable lessons along the way. 

Learn sustainable gardening techniques for your own gardens with our workshops and classes.

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CULTIVATING COMMUNITY

We grow and help YOU grow pesticide-free, locally-grown food. No matter how small or large your space is, we help you set up, maintain, and harvest fresh produce year-round.

Learn about our community gardens like our rooftop farm at Nationals Stadium and visit our rooftop nursery in NE DC above W.S. Jenks & Son hardware store.

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NOURISHING FAMILIES

Our CSA program offers multiple options for weekly produce available for pickup at four locations in DC. 

We host weekly opportunities to purchase produce grown at local school gardens.  A portion of the funds go directly back to the programs. Learn more here.

As all of the summer crops start to wind down, the strawberries are just starting to pick up again! Don't you just love fruit that disobeys the seasons 🍓🍓🍓
Look who just dropped off a special treat for our #CSA members this week?! @charismaticcreations bringing the goods 🍹 Can't wait to see what beautiful beverages you all concoct with this #mixer! Might just pair perfectly with some Bourbon 😉
Beautiful day for a #transformation- look who just emerged! #Easternblackswallowtail are one of the few caterpillars we let thrive in our gardens. Some gardeners think they are pests since they feast on celery, dill, parsley, fennel- but given what t
#Monday surprise! Cleaning up all of our tropical trees @idea_pcs and found our first #districtgrown #guava 😳 We are extending our sale @hstfarms until Wednesday- after that, any remaining will go back into the greenhouses for 2021. Come get your ba
Tropical fruit clearance @hstfarms today! Only $20 (more than 50% for some!) for your choice of #avocado, #guava, #pomegranate, #moringa, #pineapples and more 🥑🍌🍍 in #RootPouch for easy year-round growing 😍 We also have a limited amount of #drago
Time to harvest the rest of the basil and switch over to all #fallcrops in our #towergardens! Thank you @verticalgardengreens for this amazing setup, everything looks so much cleaner 🥬🥬🥬
Happy #NationalIndoorPlantWeek! In celebration- we have unveiled our 2020 Fall Seed and Plant Swap on October 17th @hstfarms- space is limited to 50 people per session (4 sessions) and social distancing measures will be in place, and is free to atten
We made it through the cold snap! **knock on wood** Another beautiful harvest from @gallygardens including some special ordered #turmeric and #taro leaves! Looks like we'll also have a few extra weeks of #tomatoes, #peppers and #sourgherkins🍅🌶🥒 😋
💚🤍💚 Congratulations @britrenee_ ! You're the winner of our drawing for a #treubii and #hoyakerrii- please send us a DM to coordinate picking up your newest plants! Thank you everyone for entering and helping spread the plant love 🙏🏾
#Ginger and #Turmeric harvest time 🖐🏾 These are so fresh you can bite right in- but don't forget to wash up first 💦 This year we also grew #galangal or #alpineginger, but I think we'll give that another season to make some bigger rhizomes
CONTEST ALERT 🚨 #Scindapsus #Treubii "#moonlight"🌛is a rare aroid that is almost completely silver with a dash of green. We are lucky enough to be stocked with well rooted cuttings of this plant which still sells for over $100 in certain
Harvested a bunch of #moringa leaves today for our #CSA, and cut back all of our taller trees to root back into pots to double our production for next year! Also got to harvest some mature seeds, so we'll have some new seedlings coming too. Moringa l
#Sugarcane checkup @gallygardens! Look's like we'll get to harvest another new crop this year ☘ We went with Jamaican Striped sugarcane, which has grown super quickly - hoping it gets even bigger over the next month! As frost gets closer, we will beg
Family photo 🤣 This email absolutely made my day and had to share! Comment/message from one of our #foraging class attendees: "My daughter and I loved the Paw Paw hunt. It was a highlight of her birthday weekend. Thanks for all the special att
Another #Saturday draws to a close and our pup is exhausted 🐶 Thank you to everyone who dropped by today @hstfarms to say hi! These rooftop winds and summer storms have made quick work of our #Variegatedbanana, but she's still growing fast and super
Rain on shine, the hunt for #pawpaw continues! Tomorrow is our last #foraging class of the year and we're hopeful the forest continues to give us a wonderful bounty.
Fall decor #compost finds @idea_pcs 🌽🌽🌽 Last December we added our leftover pumpkins, gourds and corn to the #compostpile- a few of the seeds started germinating and growing in late spring and we just didn't have the heart to pull them out. The st
#Tomato season might be drawing to a close soon, but these cherry tomatoes are showing no signs of slowing down yet! What's our recipe for success? We start them out in a 3 gallon #RootPouch- once they get about 2 feet tall, they are potted up into a
What a beautiful day to get out and enjoy the sun 🌞 As well as a fresh picking of crab apples for this week's #CSA 🍎🍎🍎 Have you spotted any of these in your neighborhood? Fall is one of my favorite seasons, as all the plants and trees start to g
What a beautiful surprise this morning 😍 Harvested my first "cultivated" #pawpaw and it's a true beauty- 10+ inches of 🥭🍌🍍 goodness. I planted this tree more than 4 years ago but looks like it was well worth the wait. Great sign for our