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Our plants are for sale! Come to our greenhouses at 123 Vermont NE, (starting April 19th) Thurdays and Fridays 9am-5pm and Saturdays (just 2 more this season, the 12th & 19th) from 9am-1pm to buy your plants! Click here for more information.
Growing Awareness is a non-profit Urban Farm in the heart of Albuquerque. It is a micro-enterprise of East Central Ministries. Our mission is to support our neighbors and enrich our city through sustainable, community-focused projects and micro-businesses. When you visit, you'll likely see kids and neighbors tending the community garden, planting seedlings in the greenhouse, caring for our urban livestock, or making clay pots. Most importantly, we are all becoming aware that another world is possible. Together we are growing a more just and sustainable community!
Click here to see pictures of what is happening at Growing Awareness!
This spring we had a couple UNM classes come to tour/volunteer here at ECM. I wasn't sure exactly which class was coming, and when they arrived, and I was able to chat a bit more with the professor, I discovered it was a communications class. John said asked the teacher quite bluntly: "What does East Central Ministries have to do with a Communications class?" We were both quite amazed at how much her explanation resonated with what we are...
Why “Growing Awareness Urban Farm?” What do tomato seedlings and chicken coops have to do with East Central Ministries?
Awareness precedes change is the Growing Awareness slogan. We believe that in order for change to happen, change in an attitude, a heart, a relationship, or a neighborhood, there must first be a vision for change; we must be able to imagine something different. This imagination and awareness is...
East Central Ministries
123 Vermont NE Albuquerque, NM 87108
(505) 266-3590