The​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Garden ​​Network​ of Tarrant County
Building~Teaching~Feeding


About Us

“We founded The Garden Network of Tarrant County to help our friends and neighbors access healthy food—and to empower those who can grow their own.”
- Neale Mansfield, Executive Director and Founder

We normally think of hunger as a problem for people in third world countries. Yet right here in Tarrant County, 1 in 6 people often don’t know where their next meal will come from. What’s more, thousands of people in Tarrant County live in food deserts —neighborhoods without full-service grocery stores or other access to healthy food — and find themselves surrounded by fast food or processed foods as their only source of nourishment.

This is where we are trying to intervene. We help communities and residents build gardens so that they can grow their own fresh produce and begin to put an end to hunger and bring some green to these food deserts.

Here’s how it works: anyone with the means to do so can buy a raised bed vegetable garden for their backyard. The Garden Network will build their bed, teach them how to grow fresh vegetables, and provide other resources to help ensure the success of their garden.
As a newly formed 501c3 nonprofit organization we appreciate your interest in helping us succeed in our mission!
Then for every garden that is bought the Food Network donates another one to low-income residents across Tarrant County so that they too can receive the benefits of readily available fresh produce.

The final step in our mission is to then have all of the gardens become connected with local agencies all across Tarrant County, and donate any fresh produce that they don’t end up eating themselves.

We hope to unite the communities of Tarrant County so that they have the power to produce healthy foods, end hunger and promote healthy eating. We hope that everyone has this power not only within their area, not only within their communities, but all the way down to their own backyard.