What is garden adoption?
When you adopt a DUG garden or food forest, you’re investing in a precious community resource by ensuring one (or more) of our gardens has the necessary physical and human resources to thrive.
How does it work?
A list of adoptable gardens/food forests for you to choose from will be identified by DUG’s garden team based on gardens of highest need near your company’s HQ, outlets, or employees’ homes (you let us know!).
Adoptions are a three-year minimum commitment to ensure consistency of resources from season to season. Yearly adoption fees go directly towards what DUG staff determines to be immediate garden needs, with any surplus funding applied to DUG’s Baseline Infrastructure Initiative (BII), which further ensures equity across the entire DUG network.
What are the benefits?
- A meaningful way to give back through active philanthropy that goes beyond just writing a check.
- “Adopted by” sign with your company’s logo on the garden/forest fence on or near the entrance, providing high-value exposure to a highly engaged community in close proximity to your business.
- Garden opportunities for team members to invest in their health and work shoulder to shoulder and in partnership with their neighbors.
- Access to a private gardening workshop for your team (with adoption of five or more gardens).
What are the Responsibilities?
- Ongoing stewardship of the garden in partnership with the Garden Leadership to ensure the garden community is maintained and thriving.
- Promotion of your partnership with DUG at your business to provide exposure and awareness for DUG beyond the garden itself–we’ve got you covered with signage, stickers, and brochures!
Adoption Costs
Adoption fees are $2,500 /garden /year with a three-year minimum commitment required.
Optional Add-On
Do your part to contribute to a healthy pollinator ecosystem*! Add a fully-supported and maintained beehive to a garden for an additional $2,500/year through DUG’s partnership with Alvéole.
Your sponsorship Includes:
- Branded hive
- Branded honey for corporate gifting
- Hive web page to track progress
- One beekeeping workshop
*Requires full consensus of gardeners.
