Joyful Souls Heirloom Nursery
New home for events and sales
The GROW Farm
A collaborative community food forest and sustainable growing education hub!
Located at 216 Singleton Drive, Columbia, SC 29203. Click above to learn more !
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Joyful Souls Heirloom Nursery
The Full Story
The GROW Farm
Growing Resiliency, Opportunity and Wellness
Welcome to the GROW Farm.
The GROW Farm is an initiative 2-years in the making. While serving as a community food forest, the GROW Farm will also serve as an sustainable growing education hub providing classes, workshops and technical training for beginning and experienced growers. Workshops on health and wellness will be offered on-site as well. The grounds also may be used as a means for relaxation and gardening recreation by the public. Read below to learn more and for our upcoming events and registration links.
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How We Came to Be
The GROW Farm is a collaborative that joins the work of Lisa Kershaw's Joyful Souls Heirloom Nursery, its Sow & Grow Education Programs, and Jennifer Cunningham's Palmetto Learning Academy of SC and it's Nourishing the Neighborhood programs. Working together Lisa and Jennifer have supported over 600 youth and 400 adults in sustainable growing programs. They look to expand this programming to the 2-Acre plot of land through Mr. Lee Carroll to be a sustainably food producing site and growing educational hub.
The raised beds are built and growing food!
Berries are planted!
Come see our corn growing!
Next Up- a greenhouse!
Mission
The GROW Farm seeks to address food insecurity, promote environmental stewardship, and empower individuals through hands-on agricultural education and community engagement.
Vision
The GROW Farm will work to create a sustainable, community-centered green space that transforms lives through access to fresh food, environmental education, and ecological restoration, fostering resilience and well-being in underserved urban communities.
Thanks for joining us at the Youth Spring GrowBag Garden Event!
Fantastic turnout and fun had by all! We were able to serve over 40 youth with garden education, garden tools, and a book while working with an experienced gardener to create their own garden in a growbag to grow at home! All of our participants got to enjoy a fresh garden salad in which each youth made their own decisions about what to have in their salad! The youth also got the opportunity to see a full vegetable and herb garden growing and everyone was able to harvest something from the garden! Check out that zucchini!
Our thanks to Zay with Infinite Seeds who supported our youth with garden learning!
Thanks to the Outside of Eden Garden league for their planning, expertise and program support!
