Raleigh City Farm Receives 2022 Raleigh Environmental Stewardship Award (RESA)

We are thrilled and honored to be the recipient of this year’s Raleigh Environmental Stewardship Award (RESA) from the City of Raleigh for demonstrating environmental leadership and recognizing the continuity of the environment, economics, and equity.

This accomplishment is only possible because of the thousands of volunteer hours — on the ground and behind the scenes — invested by our board, advisory council, and dedicated team of volunteers.

Here is the release from the City of Raleigh:

2022 Raleigh Environmental Award Winners

This year, Raleigh’s Environmental Advisory Board recognized the best in climate action, community engagement and corporate stewardship in our city. These winners represent the hard work of dozens of community members to make Raleigh a healthier, greener and more sustainable city.

Raleigh Environmental Stewardship Award (RESA)

Each year, the RESA recognizes an individual or organization that has shown environmental leadership and recognizes the relationship and continuity of the environment, economics, and equity or social justice aspects of human society. This year’s RESA winner is Raleigh City Farm.

Situated just one mile north of Raleigh’s bustling downtown, Raleigh City Farm is a nonprofit urban farm founded in 2011 on a formerly vacant one-acre lot. Its mission is to connect and nourish the Raleigh community through regenerative agriculture working toward its vision of a healthy community supporting the next generation of farmers. In 2020, Raleigh City Farm refined its strategy to place a greater emphasis on food insecurity and food access, donating over 3,600 pounds of food to nonprofit partners, including the Salvation Army and A Place at the Table, and transitioning its Farmstand into a pay-what-you-can program. The farm engages nearly 2,500 volunteers and visitors in its activities, including volunteer workdays, farm tours, and workshops.

The Environmental Advisory Board recognizes Raleigh City Farm’s dedication to environmental stewardship through regenerative agriculture, to equity through its Farmshare and food donation programs, and to community building through people-centered programming that spread a love of urban agriculture while strengthening people’s ties to their neighborhood.

Raleigh City Farms show the transformative power of urban farms on neighborhoods and throughout the city. Urban agriculture has the power to bring people together and create beautiful, safe spaces where they can learn, thrive and “dig where we live!”