Sharing Resources

Sharing resources are great options for those who need access or have extra of tools, plants, seeds, garden space, greenhouse space, compost cooperatives, shared workplaces and other resources. The organizations below help to connect those who are interested in sharing or swapping resources for free.

Arlington Public Library Tool Lending Program

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Arlington residents and property owners age 18 and over can borrow up to five tools at a time from the Garden Tool Lending Program.

Arlington Public Library Tool Lending Program

Bethesda Green

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We are a public-private partnership that promotes sustainable growth and sustainable living practices.

Bethesda Green

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DPR Urban Garden Division

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DC Parks and Rec (DPR) Urban Garden Division works with communities across the District to establish urban Ag projects (currently 31 community gardens and 5 non profit production farms) and urban ag support systems such as a urban garden education program offering over a 100 free classes, a citywide critter proof community compost cooperative iniitiative, a garden toolshare, a greenhouse coop, tree planting intiatives and an urban bee program.

DPR Urban Garden Division

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Growing Food, Growing Community Intergenerational Gardening Program

Gardens offer great opportunities not only to grow fresh fruits and vegetables, but also to meet your neighbors. This year, Age-Friendly DC, the DC Department of Parks and Recreation, the Office of the State Superintendent for Education, and the newly formed DC Food Policy Council are partnering in an effort to connect residents of all ages and abilities who want to garden with spaces and opportunities that need garden assistance from community gardeners that need assistance, home owners that have space to garden and school gardens that are dormant in the summer when schools out.

Growing Food, Growing Community Intergenerational Gardening Program

Mess Hall

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Mess Hall is a culinary incubator in DC. We support up-and-coming food entrepreneurs by providing commercial kitchens, combined with institutional knowledge and extraordinary opportunities. Mess Hall supports a vibrant and diverse local food community. Our members come together to collaborate, leverage shared resources, and gain access to a breadth of professionals with decades of industry experience.

Mess Hall

Mount Rainier Community Tool Shed

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The Mount Rainier Community Tool Shed offfers a collection of hand and power tools that can be used at no cost by residents, businesses, and community groups of Mount Rainier, Maryland to improve their properties.

Mount Rainier Community Tool Shed

MY GROW CONNECT

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My Grow Connect is the perfect blend of online social networking, modern bartering and traditional agriculture. Each user can swap by requesting or offering neighbors space to grow, fresh compost, produce and other resources.

MY GROW CONNECT

Silver Spring Time Bank

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The Silver Spring Timebank is open to anyone who lives, works or plays in Silver Spring, Maryland. The concept is simple. Help a neighbor with a service and earn a timebank credit for each hour of your service. In exchange, you can spend your timebank credits on any of the many services that other members offer. Services are exchanged using time instead of money. The Silver Spring Timebank also hosts garden tool swaps too.

Silver Spring Time Bank

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Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network

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Crossroads Community Food Network is working to improve community health through local food access programs and education for at-risk populations in Maryland’s Takoma/Langley Crossroads area and beyond. Some of CCFN programs include a Farmers Market, healthy eating program, and a microenterprise training program.

Takoma Crossroads Community Food Network

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Techshop DC-Arlington

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TechShop is a membership-based, do-it-yourself (DIY) workshop and fabrication studio providing access to a vibrant community of creative people and more than $1 million worth of high quality machines, tools and software. With locations nationwide, TechShop offers classes, workshops, instruction and meet-ups for people of all ages and skill levels.

Techshop DC-Arlington

The Fresh Food Factory Farm and Food Hub

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The mission is to empower underrepresented and undercapitalized entrepreneurs by providing them with a one-stop farming, food processing and distributing hub that equips these foodies with the essential resources to operate a successful healthy food venture.

The Fresh Food Factory Farm and Food Hub

The Riverside Center (WPP)

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Washington Parks & People (WPP) Riverside Center has become a hub of activity in the park, and it is now also home to DC’s first comprehensive community food hub. Riverside programming includes fitness and healthy cooking classes, in-season farm market, youth arts and dance classes, town hall meetings, films, forums, service learning, and park revitalization and urban forestry job training with our DC Green Corps. Riverside features a 2,000-square-foot assembly space, a brand new 1500-square-foot commercial kitchen and cafe, a bike repair station, and an indoor growing place.

The Riverside Center (WPP)

Union Kitchen

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Food brings people together. At Union Kitchen, we build community by creating a food system that propels local businesses to succeed. By offering kitchen space, catering, distribution, business and consulting services, as well as our own retail outlets, Union Kitchen is a one-stop shop for everything an existing or launching food business needs. Within Union Kitchen, you can make it, move it, and sell it.

Union Kitchen

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Wangari Gardens

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Nonprofit DC garden park designed, created, and sustained by the community. Provides public (free) and private (fee) garden plots, education/workshops, tool share, CSA, garden consultations, and more.

Wangari Gardens

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Washington Gardener

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Washington Gardener magazine, blog, enewsletter and events are designed specifically for gardeners in the District of Coumbia and its suburbs.

Washington Gardener

Washington Parks and People

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Washington Parks and People is a nonprofit organization that operates a community food hub, fitness center and farm market at the Riverside Healthy Living Center in NE/Deanwood It offers classes, job training programs (Green Corps & Jobs in the Community), and a variety of community eduction and gardening opportunities at its urban agricutlure sites in NE/Marvin Gaye Greenig Ceter and NW/Columbia Heights Green.

Washington Parks and People

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