Grantee Spotlight: Imagine Community Gardens

With multiple thriving locations in Niagara County, Imagine Community Gardens, Inc. partners with churches by providing tools, training and volunteers to grow and sustain community vegetable gardens. Together, they’re planting seeds of friendship, hope, and faith.

In 2024, @Imagine Community Gardens received a grant from the Niagara Area Foundation to continue supporting and enhancing these gardens, helping them flourish for the community.

“Our role is to resource our community gardens with products and training and manpower to allow people in the community to come together and reap the rewards of shared gardening at no cost to the gardeners,” said Carolynn Zima, Office and Communications Manager at Imagine Community Gardens.

“The grant was significant in allowing us to maintain funding for our Niagara area gardens. We were able to provide materials not only for the gardens to produce fresh vegetables, but we also had a number of garden programs available to those in the community.”