New Roots Charlottesville
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New Roots is a food and agriculture program of the International Rescue Committee.
We help refugees and other immigrants make a healthy start in their new home through gardening, farming and other food and wellness activities.
Happy Spring all!
This weekend, during our launch of the growing season, a guest artist, IlaSahai Prouty, will join us again to create an earthen line drawing using biochar. This is a long term, practical carbon sequestration technique, tied in with community based art practice. If you'd like to come check out the project and visit the gardens, you are welcome to stop by New Roots Farm this weekend!
To find us, you can follow the signage towards the farm at the back of Azalea Park.
If you have any trouble please call or text us at (646)-907-4474, and we'll help you find your way!
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More about the project from IlaSahai Prouty:
"Biochar Drawing is a site-specific earthwork designed to sequester carbon, enrich the soil, and make the practice of carbon sequestration visible and accessible on a human scale. Imagine a charcoal drawing, buried underground - a heavy line of carbon set into the earth. Over top, plantings thrive, marking where the drawing lies.
I aim to make artworks that connect people in community and common purpose, sequester carbon, and inspire people to work in relationship with the earth."
01/12/2026
Join us on Friday, January 16th from 9:30 to 11AM at The Bradbury for a discussion led by Cultivate Charlottesville, Market Central, and City of Charlottesville - A Green City on food production and distribution.
Come for the coffee and pastries, stay for the climate connections! RSVP at aclimatecafeonfood.eventbrite.com
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Looking for a deeper dive on regional climate resilience and food systems? Attend “A Growing Response to Climate Change” on Saturday, January 17th from 2:30 to 5PM at the Jefferson School Auditorium led by Market Central, Cultivate Charlottesville, County of Albemarle, City of Charlottesville, Va - Government and New Roots Charlottesville. RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/mub9jhu3
These back-to-back events on food justice are sure to offer a comprehensive look at the realities of food equity and access in our region and the climate-related challenges to growers and consumers.
07/07/2025
New Roots is hiring a Farmer Training Coordinator. Please help us spread the word in the greater Charlottesville area! To learn more and apply, please visit https://careers.rescue.org/us/en/job/req58750/Farmer-Training-Coordinator
03/23/2024
The New Roots staff and volunteers successfully rebuilt the hoop house donated to us last year from . Our Homewood garden site is ready just in time to start seedlings for our 100+ gardeners! Happy Spring!
12/15/2023
Turn your passion for gardening into a small farm business with IRC New Roots! Join our Micro-Producer Academy workshops, beginning in January, to create a farm business plan and get growing in 2024. IRC will provide interpretation to Dari, Swahili, Spanish, Nepali, and other languages spoken by participants. Apply online at tinyurl.com/MPA2024 or call New Roots at 434-326-7296 to learn more. Everyone is welcome to join these free workshops.
Cultivate Charlottesville Cultivate works together to grow gardens, share food and power, and advocate for just food systems
09/15/2023
New Roots Charlottesville stands in support of Cultivate Charlottesville and The Power To Grow Campaign.
We support:
1. An Urban Agriculture Collective farm site at BTW Park.
2. Increased urban agriculture land, especially for residents facing food insecurity.
3. Including Food Equity Goals in the City Strategic Plan.
Several New Roots gardeners and other IRC clients have participated in the Power to Grow Surveys and echo the sentiments of many others in neighborhoods near Booker T. Washington Park.
This project would bring great and lasting benefit to the community and we encourage you all to offer your support to Cultivate Charlottesville by signing this petition and showing up at Monday’s City Council meeting at 4pm when Cultivate will present it to the Charlottesville City Council.
We hope to see you there!
09/08/2023
Hi everyone! The You Pick event is happening at New Roots Farm tomorrow from 4pm-6pm!
Come by and show your support for New Roots growers!
Cash, check, or the venmo app are the available payment options for this event. If it gets too stormy we'll post notice of any follow up plans here.
Thanks and hope to see you there!
08/31/2023
Some Growers at New Roots Farm will be opening their garden spaces for a You Pick Event on Tuesday Sept 5th and Saturday Sept 9th!
Please come by and support New Roots Growers! Kids Welcome!
If you have any questions please email [email protected]
08/19/2023
Good morning Charlottesville, New Roots farmers are at it again! We’re selling fresh, local, sustainably-grown vegetables to neighbors like you! SNAP Customers, stop by and double your spending power with VA Fresh Match! Come down to every Saturday 8-12.
08/10/2023
Join us next week to participate in Cultivate Charlottesville's Power to Grow Community Roundtable! Learn about how, for decades, Black Charlottesville residents have played a key role in transforming the land at Booker T. Washington Park from a history of injustice to a history of reclamation. RSVP at https://cultivatecharlottesville.org/take-action/
07/27/2023
New Roots farmers Stargell Farm has fresh picked tomatoes, basil, tomatillos, beans, and eggs! Come by IX Art Park today for the Thursday
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375 Greenbrier Drive, Suite 200
Charlottesville, VA
22901