Help Us Grow a Better Dallas!
Why does your donation matter?
Your support makes our work possible. With your donation, we can continue to grow fresh, healthy food for underserved communities, provide valuable job training opportunities, and promote sustainability in urban agriculture. Every contribution helps, no matter the amount.
Donate today and be a part of the solution.
Our mission
1. Provide good, healthy, affordable produce for the community.
2. Create jobs as well as income for South Dallas community growers and producers with profits from production and sales.
3. Provide community members real-world farm training, entrepreneurial skills, leadership experiences, and the opportunity for collaborative civic engagement.
4. Reinvest every dollar directly into our farms, our training, and our infrastructure.
Our story
What started as an experiment in South Dallas has quickly turned into a working, scalable, sustainable model of urban agriculture to create jobs growing local organic produce for the Dallas market and the South Dallas community.
For the past four years, we have poured our hearts into this project, and our hard work on the ground is starting to blossom. As you know, any grassroots venture takes a combination of passion, dedication, people power, and funding.
We’re out to build something uniquely impactful and sustainable in the world of urban agriculture and community empowerment.
And we’ve done so with a collaboration between the citizens of South Dallas, entrepreneurs, farming professionals, research partners, tons of volunteers, and with support from amazing people like you!
We farm because growing food for our community makes sense. We farm out of care. We farm out of love - for the land and for the people. We farm out of hope for the future.
— Charles Spencer | Associate Farmer & South Dallas Native
What People are Saying.
“What Restorative Farms is doing is radically unique. It is a ground up, economical and sustainable approach that could, if successful, be scaled and applied all over the country.”
— Dr. Anne Palmer, Food Communities and Public Health Program Director at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
I get to work with the community. I get to address the food desert. I get to hire the formerly incarcerated. I get to hire people in the community. I get to meet new people, varieties, rainbows, what have you.
And I also get to work with seniors and be able to just provide and give back to the community. Not only in south Dallas but DFW as a whole.
— Tyrone Day, Hatcher Station Farm, Farm Manager
Sponsor an FUF
By sponsoring a Future Urban Farmer, you can make a direct impact on someone’s life. Your sponsorship will help cover wages, training materials, and resources for our program participants, empowering them to gain valuable skills and start their journey in sustainable agriculture.