Food Ambassadors • Urban Harvesters • Community Food Production
What Is the Food Ambassador Program?
👉 $5,000 Sponsorship → 1 Fully Installed Urban Harvester → Multiple Plants → Ongoing Food Production
The Program in One Sentence
The Food Ambassador Program is a community-sharing, household-by-household
food-growing initiative that places Urban Harvesters with households, schools,
nonprofit organizations, and community partners so people can grow fresh food, share harvests,
teach others, and strengthen local food security.
The relationship is simple: Food Ambassadors is the program;
Urban Harvesters are the growing systems deployed through the program; and the
Tomato Volcano is an included crop-specific attachment that allows an Urban Harvester
to be configured for concentrated tomato production.
How the Food Ambassador Program Works
1. Sponsor
A company, foundation, community group, or donor funds one or more Urban Harvester installations.
2. Place & Install
Growing To Give works with an approved household, school, nonprofit, community partner, or Food Ambassador cohort and installs the system.
3. Grow & Share
Participants grow fresh food, share part of the harvest, and use the installation as a practical demonstration and teaching resource.
4. Document Impact
Growing To Give provides growing support and documents the deployment through photographs, production information, and sponsor impact updates.
Urban Harvesters can be placed in backyards, side yards, patios, decks, rooftops, parking areas,
schools, community sites, nonprofit facilities, islands, Indigenous communities, and other locations
where conventional gardens may be difficult or impractical. Proposed sites are reviewed for sunlight,
water access, routine care, accessibility, and installation requirements.
THE GROWING SYSTEM
What Is an Urban Harvester and Why Does It Matter?
Traditional container gardens can be limited by restricted root space, inconsistent moisture,
nutrient loss, and limited planting capacity. The Urban Harvester addresses those
challenges through a compact, high-density growing system powered by Root Tube Technology.
Each Urban Harvester is designed to support multiple plants within a remarkably small footprint,
helping growers produce more fresh food while using less water and fertilizer. The system can be
configured for vegetables, herbs, flowers, and other productive crops.
Because the system is compact and mobile, it can create a practical food-growing site in locations
where a conventional in-ground garden may not be realistic. That makes each installation useful as
both a food source and a visible demonstration of what can be grown in a small space.
WHY ONE INSTALLATION CAN MATTER BEYOND ONE SITE
Food Ambassadors: Caring & Sharing
The Food Ambassador Program is about more than placing individual growing systems.
It is designed to expand food production household by household and community by community.
Each Urban Harvester becomes a productive local growing site where participants can grow fresh food,
share part of their harvest, teach others, and demonstrate what can be accomplished in a small space.
One installation can support one household or organization while also encouraging additional households,
students, employees, or community members to begin growing.
The Multiplying Effect
As more Urban Harvesters are sponsored and deployed, individual growing sites can become part of a
decentralized community food network. Schools can use them as teaching resources, households can share
harvests with neighbors, and local cohorts can work together to expand practical food production.
HEAR FROM ONE OF OUR FOOD AMBASSADORS
THE INCLUDED TOMATO ATTACHMENT
What Is a Tomato Volcano?
The Tomato Volcano is not a separate growing system. It is an attachment included
with the Urban Harvester and designed specifically for vigorous, high-production tomato growing.
Its stainless steel support structure gives tomato plants the room and stability needed to grow upward,
outward, and around the container. Instead of allowing heavy vines to collapse, crowd one another, or
spill unsupported across the ground, the framework helps organize the developing canopy and support long
vines, fruit clusters, and increasing crop weight throughout the growing season.
Maximum Production From One Small Growing Site
In a Tomato Volcano configuration, the growing space, root environment, and support structure are
dedicated to tomato production.
This concentrated approach creates the potential to produce hundreds of beefsteak tomatoes or thousands
of cherry tomatoes from one specialized two-part 26-inch container. Actual production depends on tomato
variety, climate, season length, plant care, and local growing conditions.
Because the system is compact and mobile, a highly productive tomato site can be located anywhere there
is adequate sunlight and access for routine care and harvesting.
Grow & Share the Harvest
A successful Tomato Volcano can produce far more tomatoes than one household or organization may need at
one time. That abundance creates a natural opportunity to share vine-ripened fresh tomatoes with people
throughout the community.
Each Tomato Volcano therefore serves two purposes: it demonstrates how much tomato production can be
concentrated into a remarkably small footprint while turning one productive growing site into a continuing
source of fresh food for others.
A world of tomato possibilities from one Tomato Volcano.
Grow heat-tolerant cherry and plum tomatoes in the American Southwest, early-season varieties in northern
and short-season regions, disease-resistant slicers in humid climates, traditional Roma and San Marzano
types in Mediterranean growing areas, or grape, cherry, paste, heirloom, and specialty tomatoes suited to
communities around the world. Each installation can be planted for its local climate, food traditions,
and harvest-sharing goals.
FOOD AMBASSADOR PROGRAM FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Learn more about Urban Harvester sponsorships, what each installation
includes, how recipients are selected, and how sponsored growing sites
support local food production and community participation.
What is the Food Ambassador Program?
The Food Ambassador Program is a community-sharing,
household-by-household food-growing initiative that places
Urban Harvesters with approved households, schools,
nonprofit organizations, community partners, and Food Ambassador cohorts.
Participants use the installations to grow fresh food, share harvests,
demonstrate high-efficiency growing, and help extend practical food
production throughout their communities.
How much does it cost to sponsor an Urban Harvester?
A $5,000 sponsorship funds one complete, fully installed
Urban Harvester growing site. The sponsorship supports the physical growing
system, preparation, delivery, installation, recipient orientation,
technical guidance, growing support, documentation, and sponsor impact
reporting.
What equipment is included with each Urban Harvester?
Each sponsored Urban Harvester includes:
- A heavy-duty plant caddy rated to support up to 1,000 pounds
- A soil-containment cradle
- Two stackable soil-containment rings
- Seven pre-fertilized Root Tubes
- A specialized compost tea mix
- A reusable compost tea preparation container
- A Tomato Volcano plant-support attachment
Is the Tomato Volcano a separate growing system?
No. The Tomato Volcano is an attachment included with the
Urban Harvester. Its stainless steel support structure allows the
installation to be configured for vigorous tomato plants, long vines,
developing fruit clusters, and concentrated tomato production. The Urban
Harvester can also be configured for many other vegetables, herbs,
flowers, and productive crops.
What services are included with the sponsorship?
The sponsorship supports more than the physical equipment. It also
includes:
- Preparation, delivery, assembly, and on-site installation
- Recipient orientation and practical system training
- Crop-selection, planting, watering, and nutrient guidance
- Seasonal growing support and technical assistance
- Harvest and growing-performance documentation
- Deployment photographs and basic sponsor impact reporting
- Sponsor acknowledgment connected with the supported installation
Who can receive a sponsored Urban Harvester?
Sponsored installations may be placed with approved households, schools,
nonprofit organizations, community partners, Food Ambassador cohorts, and
other suitable locations where the system can be maintained, documented,
and used to support fresh-food production, growing education, and harvest
sharing.
Where can an Urban Harvester be installed?
Urban Harvesters can be installed in many locations where conventional
gardens may be difficult or impractical, including backyards, side yards,
patios, decks, rooftops, parking areas, schools, community sites,
nonprofit facilities, islands, Indigenous communities, and mobile
food-distribution locations. Every proposed site is reviewed for
accessibility, sunlight, routine care, water access, and installation
requirements.
Can a company sponsor multiple Urban Harvesters?
Yes. Companies and organizations can sponsor one installation or develop
a multi-site school, employee, neighborhood, community, regional, or
international deployment. Larger projects are developed according to the
number of installations, location, freight, training, installation,
coordination, documentation, and reporting requirements.
How does a sponsor receive impact information?
Sponsors can receive deployment photographs, installation information,
recipient or project context, and basic growing and harvest updates.
Reporting for larger corporate, grant-funded, employee-engagement, or
regional projects can be developed around agreed-upon participation,
production, education, volunteer, and community-impact measures.
Ask About Sponsoring an Urban Harvester
Sponsor one fully installed growing site or discuss a larger school,
employee, neighborhood, community, or regional deployment.
Email siobhan@growingtogive.org
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