page_title: Gateway Greening
section_title: Gateway Greening Urban Farm (GGUF)
hierarchical_section_title: Gateway Greening / Gateway Greening Urban Farm (GGUF)
caption_attribution_description: English: An aerial view of the Gateway Greening Urban Farm, located in the heart of downtown St. Louis Missouri.
context_page_description: Gateway Greening is non-profit organization based in St. Louis, Missouri that works to educate and empower the community through gardening and urban agriculture. The organization operates demonstration and community resource gardens and an urban farm, hosts lectures and education programs, and supports school and community gardens throughout the City and St Louis County, Missouri.
context_section_description: Formerly known as City Seeds, the Gateway Greening Urban Farm is a 2.5 acre property located in downtown St. Louis, on land owned by the Missouri Department of Transportation.  The farm produces an average of 16,000 lbs. of fresh produce each year thanks to the efforts of staff, volunteers, and program participants.
  Founded in 2005, the Gateway Greening Urban Farm (GGUF) came about through collaboration between several St. Louis organizations and the awarding of a Community Food Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES). At the time of its funding, the farm's mission was to “increase production and distribution of locally grown fresh food for low-income residents, increase self-sufficiency in populations experiencing addictions, mental illness, and homelessness, and provide neighborhood based nutrition and food preparation programs.” While the initial plan was to establish the farm in stages over a period of 3 years, beginning with just 10 raised beds, the increasing demand for services and a timely donation of soil allowed the farm to rapidly expand physically and programmatically within the first year. Today, the farm includes 48 raised vegetable beds, drip irrigation, native plantings, a rain garden, a dwarf fruit tree orchard, ornamental shrub borders, a rainwater catch cistern, a sheltered outdoor classroom, harvest station, composting bins, beehives and more.
  Organizations that have collaborated with Gateway Greening to found the Urban Farm and its unique programs include: St. Patrick Center, St. Louis Community College at Meramec, Operation Food Search, Food Outreach, New Roots Urban Farm, St. Louis Master Gardeners, and UMSL’s Public Policy Research Center. The Urban Farm is located on land supplied by the Missouri Department of Transportation.
caption: An aerial view of the Gateway Greening Urban Farm (GGUF) located in the heart of downtown St. Louis, MO
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