Battling Hunger.Caring for Creation.At The Giving Garden, we believe a garden can change everything.
Not just by filling empty plates, but by feeding the deeper hungers—for connection, for belonging, for hope. Through this faith-based nonprofit organization, we grow fresh, nourishing food and nurture a community where everyone is welcome.
We invite you to join us. As a donor or volunteer at The Giving Garden, your support will put real food into the hands of families who need it—and cultivate a place where relationships and lives can flourish.
Battling Hunger: Getting Food Where It’s Needed
We’re proud to have provided thousands meals this year for our fellow north Texans with our fresh, chemical-free vegetables, and nutritious pasture-raised meat chickens and eggs. Every week we distribute our harvest to our local charity partners who are on the front lines of the food-insecurity battleground.
Caring for Creation: Soil Building and Carbon Sequestration
It turns out, growing food without chemicals and in line with God’s perfectly designed natural systems also helps us replace degraded soil and pull carbon out of our atmosphere. We're excited to be part of the solution. The Giving Garden employs regenerative practices like avoiding tilling, keeping our soil mulched and covered, using cover crops with living roots to encourage mycorrhizal fungi and beneficial microbes, moving chickens across our pasture to keep them healthy and to fertilize our land, and more. We’ve begun taking soil samples to measure the beneficial effects of our practices on our microclimate. We value and teach creation stewardship. Every plant is grown in soil enriched by our own farm animals and homemade compost—making every harvest a celebration of God’s abundance and care.
Our Garden - Your Impact
Container Garden: 2,000 square feet of sustainable, low-maintenance growing spaces, perfect for gardeners of all abilities—expanding every season.
In-Ground Garden: 640-sf open-air garden space busy in three seasons with okra, beans, herbs, flowers, and more.
Caterpillar Tunnel: 960 square feet of protected space to help us grow premium crops like tomatoes and peppers, even in the harshest Texas heat. The tunnel also extends our growing season into the early winter and early spring, before growing is possible outside.
Pasture-Raised Poultry - Clean Protein for Those in Need
We provide 300 farm-raised frozen broilers to area food pantries per year, all raised on our chemical-free pasture.
We provide hundreds of dozens of fresh-from-the-pasture eggs from our happy laying flock to those in need.
Growing Young Farmers
Our custom internship programs, designed to get passionate young people set up right to start farm businesses with environmental integrity, also power our ability to fill grocery baskets.
How to Volunteer
Volunteering at the Garden is a great way to get actively involved and make a difference! Every Saturday, volunteers assist us with our gardening and animal care tasks - the hours you help may vary depending on the season. There are plenty of opportunities for volunteers to learn gardening skills, as well as how to properly care for the animals. If you're interested in volunteering, please click here to access our Sign Up Genius Volunteer Schedule to see the dates, times and tasks we have available each week. From there you can print out and sign this form and bring it with you when you come. We appreciate your time and hard work!
Volunteers must be adults 18 or older, or children 12 and over with adult supervision. We welcome groups, service organizations, Boy Scouts, FFA groups, and others who would like to earn service hours. Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate pets. Contact us for more information.
Feeding Our Community
You’ll find meaningful work and lots of fun working with our staff and your fellow volunteers, whether you’re weeding the vegetable beds, harvesting chickens, or building farm structures. Every chore accomplished and every dollar donated puts nutritious food onto the plates of families in our neighborhood. Our food pantry partners help veterans, seniors, families with kids, and the working poor have better lives by reducing the stress and damage of food-insecurity.