Sweet Peas Community Garden is an urban community garden located at 107 St. Mary’s Street, Garner, North Carolina 27529.  Sweet Peas produces organic microgreens, baby leafy greens, edible flowers, specialty crops and mushrooms in compact urban and peri-urban indoor and outdoor spaces. We hold educational workshops and farm table dinner events in the effort to engage our local community while educating them about how food is grown and how it can be prepared for optimum nutrition. As the US industrial food system has moved the production of healthy food out of the range of the average American, we seek to educate our neighbors about how food most Americans eat is often grown many hundreds of miles from where it is eventually consumed or processed.

Additionally, accelerating forces of climate change and environmental costs of industrial farming have diminished the extent and productivity of arable land, and pose unprecedented environmental, economic and health risks. Globalization and delocalization of existing food supply chains are unable to adequately respond to concerns about the net carbon footprint, diminishing nutrition, and health safety concerns of industrially produced food and according to a recent article by The New York Times, entitled ” The Changing Supply Chain,” suggests it is rapidly failing. The social, environmental and economic costs of industrial farming are borne by taxpayers and consumers, making existing food systems unsustainable. Increasing public awareness of these problems is our mission.