Implementing Agency (IA)
Department of Health
Key Contacts
Garden Raised Bounty (GRuB) SNAP Ed Program
About Us
For 20+ years, GRuB successfully implemented innovative programs driven by its mission to grow healthy food, people and community. GRuB works alongside and empowers people who are experiencing food insecurity to grow their own culturally appropriate food, increase physical and mental wellbeing and resilience, and strengthen community. Currently, GRuB serves 1,500+ people annually through 8 programs. Programs are led by and serve GRuB priority audiences: children, youth, families with limited incomes, tribal communities, military veterans, and seniors experiencing hunger.
GRuB’s program activities include youth empowerment and employment training on its three-acre farm, building free backyard gardens with and for families with low income, sharing gardening resources and training to ensure a successful bounty, beekeeping training for veterans and so much more.
Garden Raised Bounty
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Current Programming
Direct Education
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PSE
- GRuB Garden Project: GRuB Garden Project (GGP) address health equity needs of individuals with income at or below 185% of the federal poverty guidelines who reside in Olympia, WA and surrounding areas including but not limited to Lacey, Tumwater, Shelton, Tenino, Yelm, and Rochester. Housed within this project, SNAP-Ed program at GRuB provides resources and educational support to the garden recipients on healthy eating, gardening skills, physical activities and community building.
- BIPOC and LGBTQ+ centered Health and Food Equity: Working in collaboration with local service providers, GRuB’s SNAP-Ed program is aimed to identify food and health related needs of the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC individuals in the area and explore possible collaborations to realize solutions of their choices.
Community Partners
- Thurston County Food Bank
- Nisqually Tribe
- Yelm & Rainier Community Gardens
- Food Systems Leadership Network–South Sound Food Systems Network
- Great Western Supply
- Olympia Food Co-op
- Home Depot
- Spring Creek Farm (provide in-kind donations of gardening supplies)
- BLAST
- Canoe Journey Herbalists
- CIELO
- PiPE
- Pizza Klatch
- POWER
- SAGE Olympia
- Stonewall Youth
- YWCA Olympia
