Description: Eliminating barriers to healthy living in America's urban core.
Urban Geoponics® is a grassroots urban agricultural movement established for the purpose of eliminating #fooddeserts and building better helping a higher quality of life through education and empowerment. At Urban Geoponics® our aim is to create jobs and employ the underemployed, the victims denied adequate food access. Re-frame the parameters of Social Responsibility through the platform of urban farming to include many activities and programs designed to empower the youth. The Urban Geoponics® model will
Urban Geoponics® is a non-profit organization born from the Summit of the Moors hosted in February in Jacksonville, Florida. We are committed to sharing our vision to build healthier, cleaner, stronger and more vibrant communities. The events and activities we share are community-driven, so we encourage families to come out, plant, educate, and volunteer to guarantee a successful movement. We believe in the youth and their ability to take part in the development process. Our sincere effort for high communit
Because of the Summit we have been able to obtain over 10 acres of land to cultivate community gardens and support sustainable farming techniques, such as vertical growing and the aquaponics system. Local community residents, educators, business professionals, and change agents have rallied behind this effort, and as a result, we are poised to leverage their donations and equipment contributions to create new 4 new jobs by the close of 2022.