FULL-CIRCLE FARM CAMPUS
A farm where local food solutions flourish
A place where our community comes together to learn, grow, and nourish themselves.
At Working Food, we believe that food is a universal connector. Everyone has a relationship with food, making it a profound catalyst for unity, justice, and change. But the threats to Florida’s food system are real.
80% of the food Floridians eat is imported
One in seven Floridians is food insecure
Florida loses 120 acres of farmland every day to development
Conventional agriculture degrades our soil and water quality
None of these trends are inevitable; they are the result of an industrial food system that extracts from our community instead of feeding it. Over the past decade, we’ve built a network of local growers, local youth, and local land to find local solutions that protect our economy, environment, and community health. This has earned us something rare: community trust that we will respond to need. But need is rising, our existing growing spaces are maxed out, and our food future requires infrastructure the region does not yet have.
So let’s build it. Together.
Help us grow
The Full Circle Farm Campus is a resource built for and by our community. We have the land, we have the vision, all we need now is YOU.
Our Progress
We are raising $350,000 by January 31, 2027, to build the campus infrastructure, and early giving has already brought us 77% to this goal. A generous donor has pledged $40,000 as a match gift, which means when you donate before the end of January, your donation will be doubled.
Visit HERE for more on ways to give, gift recognition, and the impact your gift makes.
About the Campus
Working Food’s Full-Circle Farm Campus will be a center for the community’s local food work. This Campus brings Working Food’s farm, youth and grower education, and local food distribution to the same shared land, where the community can join.
The Full-Circle Farm Campus will have:
Lush gardens, food forests, and pollinator habitat
Facilities we need for local food distribution, like a food packing shed, greenhouse, and cold storage
Space to grow and store Working Food’s locally-adapted seed collection
Community gathering spaces
Outdoor learning environments for youth and adults
With the Full-Circle Farm Campus, Gainesville will have what we’ve never had before: shared local food infrastructure. With access to tools, education, and community, local growers can grow more food that reaches more people. At this collaborative hub for learning and growing, the community can come together to design solutions to any food systems challenges that come our way and build a sustainable food community that nourishes all of us.
For more about why we are building the Full-Circle Farm Campus, read the Case for Support.
Give to our Food Future
We invite community contributions so we can build this hub and increase our impact. Your gift means more people will be connected to local food. We are in this together.
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All donations build the Full-Circle Farm Campus: the greenhouses, food storage, and facilities we need to grow and share more food with our community. Every gift received before January 31, 2027 goes directly toward this shared infrastructure. Daily operations of Working Food are funded through our ongoing revenue and fundraising; your gift to the Full-Circle Farm Campus builds the future without taking anything away from the Working Food programs happening today.
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Yes, every gift to Working Food is fully tax-deductible.
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Yes, you can give your gift all at once or spread it out over a few years through recurring donations: monthly, quarterly, or annually.
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We will thank you in a way that feels right to you. You can pick how and if your name is shared. Larger gifts unlock extra ways to be recognized on permanent signage at the farm.
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Extra gifts help us build the Campus faster and make broader investments into long-term sustainability, like solar, rain catchment, expanded perennial plantings, and more fruitful gardens.
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Phase I: Put Down Roots (2025-26) - ✔️Complete!
We secured a 99-year lease for 5 acres in an agricultural corridor in Southeast Gainesville, within the 65-acre land project BBF Dreams, formerly known as the Gainesville Organic Blueberry Farm.Phase II: Build the Infrastructure (2026-27) - $350,000
The goal of phase two is to build the infrastructure needed to move operations to the land. This includes roads, utilities, parking, buildings, and greenhouses needed to bring the farm and expanded Working Food programs to life.Phase III: Grow the Working Food Farm (2027) - $250,000
In this phase, we will expand growing spaces for food, seeds, pollinator plants, and perennial crops. During this time, we will engage the community in a visioning process to design the gathering and learning center and other public facilities.Phase IV: Sustain the Future (2027-28) - $150,000
During this phase, Working Food will reinforce the long-term resilience of the Full-Circle Farm Campus with solar power, battery storage, rain catchment, and an off-grid seed bank and cooler.
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In total, the Full Circle Farm Campus will cost $750,000. We are fundraising and financing future phases of construction in multiple ways, including community loan investments, foundation funding, donations from individuals, and other sources or revenue.
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Working Food plans to expand growing spaces in 2027 and engage community members in shaping future learning and gathering facilities. Plans for phases 3 and 4, which introduce community gathering spaces and sustainable infrastructure to strengthen the campus’s long-term resilience, will be shaped by community input.
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We will be hosting occasional tours of the farm for interested community members in the coming months. We will share tour dates here when they are available.
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Yes! The Campus will host garden days, workshops, and community events for all ages. Students will visit the Campus on field trips and at summer camps.
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In addition to Working Food’s central office, our growing operations at Grow Hub and the Giving Garden Farm – both of which have only short-term leases – will move to the Full-Circle Farm Campus starting in 2028. We will keep our network of youth gardens that we operate with community partners across Gainesville.
Partnership & Collaboration
At Working Food, we believe we do our best work in partnership. The Full-Circle Farm Campus is a place to share. Other community groups, local farmers, and food partners will work side by side with us here. Sharing one space means less waste and more teamwork; together, we can grow more food and reach more people than we could alone. This is a community center built to last for many generations. What better place to create food solutions made by our community, for our community?
Growing Working Food’s Impact
For over a decade, Working Food has built connections across our region. We’ve shared 17,000+ pounds of fresh food with families in the last five years. We offer 100+ varieties of locally adapted seeds to growers. We teach hundreds of youth in hands-on garden classes each week. Through all this, we help fill gaps food pantries leave behind and grow food literacy in young people that lasts a lifetime. Now, on this firm foundation and with strong community support, Working Food can grow our impact at the Full Circle Farm Campus:
We will grow and give away more fresh local food, more than 9,500 pounds each year by 2030.
Our online farmers market will deliver local food to over 1,500 households a year.
Our seed bank will double in size, keeping rare, culturally significant seeds that thrive in Florida safe in secure storage.
Cold storage and other food facilities will help farmers save food and money, and aid the community during natural disasters.
We will teach over 1,050 kids each year with hands-on learning on the farm.
More than 2,000 visitors will come each year to learn, celebrate, and share food together.
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