Financial Contributions
Your financial support makes Growing Roots work on the South Cumberland Plateau possible. We use donated funds to support food distributions, youth and adult workshops, community garden builds, and to equitably compensate local labor.
Growing Roots is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is tax-deductible.
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.
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REPEATING Financial Contributions
The programming and projects of Growing Roots are guided by our collective mission and put into motion by volunteers at all levels of the organization.
In this spirit, we introduce our pollinators fundraiser – ways for you to contribute to the work that we do even if you can’t be with us in person. Our annual operating fund supports the work we do and the people within it, allowing the organization to purchase equipment for community gardens, project supplies, fuel reimbursement for food distributions, provide honorariums to facilitators, and more.
Each pollinator is important, working to uplift a healthy and thriving ecosystem. We’ve chosen four types of pollinators that hold special significance in our community, to symbolize different ways of supporting the “garden” of Growing Roots.
For $5 per month ($60 per year) you can become a Honeybee. A contribution at this level could cover the mileage cost of a round of neighborhood food distributions, plus lunch for the driver. Our neighborhood service route is 40 miles one-way (80 miles round trip) and we run distributions for excess produce about seven times a year, usually in the summer and fall seasons when the harvest is coming in.
Honeybees were chosen as a pollinator type because they are a fan favorite and because they spread a little sweetness wherever they go.
For $25 per month ($300 / year), a Luna Moth donor could underwrite a workshop for Young Appalachian Club, purchasing materials for our classes (usually about 25 people, plus instructors) and providing facilitator honorariums in support of local knowledge from elders and traditional practitioners.
There is a significant luna moth population at the old DuBose Conference Center grounds, where we first broke ground in a garden and where the idea of Growing Roots was initially developed by neighborhood community members. We thought it only appropriate that a luna moth symbolize something that taps into our histories, our place, and collective community knowledge.
For $10 per month, you can be a Monarch Butterfly. This amount ($120 / year) could cover the entire cost of building and maintaining one large raised bed in one of the many community gardens that Growing Roots resources or partners with across the South Cumberland Plateau.
Monarch Butterflies are pollinators that travel long distances, giving to and receiving from each new garden or ecosystem that they visit.
At $50 per month ($600 / year), Hummingbirds are central to supporting the overarching work of Growing Roots, contributing towards the necessary costs that come along with managing community spaces and tackling larger food system issues. Funds are spent on things like rent contribution for shared space, volunteer trainings and workshops, professional consulting, engagement in actions of solidarity (such as the recent trip to Eastern TN for hurricane Helene relief), and more. Growing Roots works hard to use funds thoughtfully and (whenever possible) locally to keep the Work moving forward.
Hummingbirds are core pollinators who provide key support to the world’s ecosystems, supporting communities in producing their own food.
Super Pollinators
Growing Roots turned six years old on October 21, 2024. Over this time, some of our community members have donated a total of over $1000. Reserved for individual contributors only, we honor those donors with the additional (and permanent) title of Super Pollinator. We are thankful for the continued presence of these individuals in our organization and for their support of the Growing Roots mission and the people enacting our on-the-ground efforts.
Growing Roots is a community of people actively supporting food access and community wellness on Tennessee’s South Cumberland Plateau. Our organization is motivated by a justice-oriented approach to land use, food sovereignty on the grassroots level, and collaborative efforts to improve the quality of life for all who call this mountain home. We are committed to showing up in positive, supportive, and healthy ways.
Growing Roots is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, and all supporting donations are tax deductible.
Prefer to donate by check?
Make your check out to “Growing Roots” and mail to:
Growing Roots, PO Box 418, Tracy City TN 38387
You can also email us to make a pledge or talk about other giving options.
In-Kind Donations: The Wish List
We welcome in-kind donations at Growing Roots.
Particularly, we are in need of the following items:
Always needing topsoil
Always needing soil amendments (worm castings, manure, etc.)
Mulch
Neem oil and other organic pest control
Rake (metal)
Plastic seed trays
Garden trowels
