Fighting For
A More Generous
World.
The idea for Katie’s Krops began with a 9-year-old girl and a 40 pound cabbage. In 2008 Katie brought home a tiny cabbage seedling from school as part of the Bonnie Plants Third Grade Cabbage Program. She tended to her cabbage and cared for it until it grew to an amazing 40 pounds. Knowing her cabbage was special, she donated to a soup kitchen where it helped feed over 275 people. Moved by the experience of seeing how many people could benefit from the donation of fresh produce to soup kitchens, Katie decided to start vegetable gardens and donate the harvest to help feed people in need.
Become A Grower
Katie’s Krops now has 100 gardens growing across the country and has donated thousands and thousands of pounds of fresh produce to people in need. The mission of Katie’s Krops is to empower youth to start and maintain vegetable gardens of all sizes and donate the harvest to help feed people in need, as well as to assist and inspire others to do the same.
700,000lbs+
Fresh Produce Donated
300+
Gardens Planted
Visit Our
Outdoor
Classroom
Join us at Katie’s Krops Outdoor Classroom in our Flagship Garden
at the Crossroads Community Church in Summerville, SC.
Become A
Volunteer Today!
Do you live in the Charleston/Summerville area? We would love for you to volunteer and help us grow a healthy end to hunger. Volunteers of all ages are welcome to help. Be a part of supplying food pantries, homeless shelters, cancer centers, Katie’s Krops Dinners and families in need with fresh produce. Join our volunteer list to be informed of all opportunities to grow an end to hunger.
We had the best time painting with petals last Friday evening in our outdoor classroom! Complete with light bites, a delicious rosemary mocktail and great company, we created beautiful pressed flower art with our friends at @keptpetal 🩷🌸✨ We can’t wait for the next adult art class with Lana! #pressedpetal #art #flowerart
Oct 7
I had the most amazing time attending the Big Green Annual 2024, an event filled with the most incredible people sharing their passions about how growing food changes lives and the impact we can have by working together! I am so excited to bring back what I learned to continue to grow Katie’s Krops and our work to end hunger one vegetable garden at a time 💚🌱 #biggreenannual #growingfoodchangeslives
Oct 3
Sharing a post tropical Storm Debbie update! Currently we are in the process of preparing to replace the lumber on our beds with composite lumber, fixing two parts of our fence that are collapsing along with the gate and replacing the roof on our shed which has begun to rot. We have lots of work ahead of us but are so grateful for the wonderful people who have stepped up to help! Here’s to a bountiful fall harvest 🧡🌱
Sep 26
Catching up with our Katie’s Krops Growers~
Elizabeth, Pennsylvania
“When I first thought about starting a community garden as a Katie’s Krops Grower, the “community” I focused on was the people who would be receiving the produce from my garden. I thought about what type of vegetables they would enjoy, and how my hunger relief club could prepare meals for them using those vegetables. But it turned out that the “community” connected to my garden was even bigger than I expected! Because my garden is in the front yard, neighbors saw me and the other club members planning, planting, weeding, watering, and harvesting. They would ask us about the garden, and we told them about Katie’s Krops and the community fridges in Philly that we serve. Pretty soon we started getting donations from our neighbors who had their own vegetable gardens. We also shared our gardening experiences and advice. Best of all, the little kids in our neighborhood loved to watch the vegetables grow and help us out with the harvesting! We never had to worrry about the produce going bad because almost every day there would be little piles of ripe produce in bags and baskets by our front door, left there by neighbothood kids who had been watching carefully for just the right moment to pick them! In this way, we connected with adults and kids from our home community and increased the amount of vegetables we brought to the adults and kids in our fridge community. The pictures attached to this message show the thank-you sign that we put on the tree by our garden to let our neighbors know how much we appreciate them, and a pile of vegetables recently left on our front porch by some little harvest helpers! 💕”
Sep 22
Catching Up with Our Katie’s Krops Growers ~
With summer coming to a close, we asked our Growers to share their special moments from the 2024 growing season. We are excited to start sharing these moments with you.
‘2024 garden for Eva and I have had many unforgettable moments, but what we were proud of was when we could pull up in my Nana’s truck or car and give out veggies to the community and people in need. It was special this year because serval people were diagnosed with cancer, and vegetables were described by their doctors, and they reached out to us for help. We were able to help them. We are not finished yet, but we are getting ready for fall. I am also excited because I joined a gardening club on the University of South Carolina campus and am attending Aiken Scholars Academy this year.’
Norah and Eva
Sep 5
This week, we secured our 2025 Katie’s Krops Dinner dates at Summerville Baptist.
For 11 years, we have partnered with Summerville Baptist Church to make our dinners possible. They believed in us when I was just a middle schooler who wanted to feed my community. From sit-down dinners to pandemics to serving over 700 meals drive-thru style, they have been there for us and our community. The memories made, the friendships formed, and the kindness spread in the past 11 years have been immeasurable.
Our dinners are only possible because of the kindness of everyone at Summerville Baptist. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Here is to a 2025 filled with delicious, healthy, free meals! @svillebaptist
Aug 30
Munch munch! Did you know that monarch caterpillars will ONLY eat milkweed? Often times nurseries will spray the milkweed they sell with pesticides, that are killing the already endangered monarch population. That is why Team Monarch strives to provide pesticide free milkweed and a safe haven for our caterpillar friends to transform into beautiful butterflies and help them off the endangered species list 🐛🧡🌱
Aug 27
Did you know that for 1 out of every 3 bites of food, you can thank a pollinator for? We love our pollinator friends and they are such important parts of our ecosystem 🧡 For the 3rd year in a row, Katie’s Krops volunteer participated in the University of Georgia Pollinator Count, to count the pollinators in our flagship garden! The count is held today and tomorrow, so if you are interested in being a citizen scientist, you can join the count by visiting https://gsepc.org.
Aug 23
Happy 26th birthday to our founder, Katie. Thank you for 17 years of service rooted in love! 💕
Aug 20
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
We are grateful for all the support we have received after the storm!
Today was our first day back in our flagship garden, and we started the cleaning up and clearing out process. We are looking much better after removing four truckloads and countless wheelbarrows full of garden debris. Your Amazon donations are so appreciated! The fire ants don’t stand a chance now; we have all the seeds we need to replant. We will head to Roots and Shoots on Sunday to replenish our pesticide-free milkweed supply.
The next step is to repair the garden beds and amend the soil with our favorite BigYellowBags of hummus compost!
We had an unexpected and unwanted surprise today. After the storm, our primary garden shed needs significant roof repairs. We would be so grateful if any roofers would assist us.
Thank you for your kindness and support. Unfortunately, we will have very little from the garden to share in the coming weeks and months. We are preparing for our best fall garden ever!
Aug 16
Tropical Storm Debby was not kind to our flagship garden. The garden could not withstand the relentless 18 inches of rain. Sadly, we have lost many crops that feed our neighbors struggling with food insecurity. This storm and loss come at such a difficult time, as we have had a significant increase in our neighbors reaching out for food assistance. I am heartbroken that we will have little to share in the coming months.
We recognize that so many of our neighbors face much more significant losses due to flooding, and our hearts are with them. I am devastated that we will not have a significant harvest to share with our community partners in the coming weeks/month.
If you would like to help, there is an Amazon wishlist in our bio with supplies that will help us.
Additionally, a gift card to Lowe’s or Home Depot will help us purchase composite lumber to repair beds and bags of rocks to fill low areas.
Gift cards to Roots and Shoots will allow us to replenish our pesticide-free milkweed.
We will need someone to assist with garden bed repair as well if you have the skills and tools to assist.
Thank you for your kindness and support. We look forward to replanting and having a flourishing fall garden ♥️
Aug 9
A sweet summer morning in the garden, a donation of fresh produce to a local food pantry + beautiful, fresh flower arrangements delivered, what could be better! 💐💗🌞🌱
Aug 2
Adult Fall Gardening classes are just under a month away! Sign up to join Mr. Steve Chapman of Bonnie Plants as he shares his gardening knowledge and answers all of your questions for your most successful fall garden. Visit our website to sign up and for more information! We’ll see you in the outdoor classroom in August 🌱💛
Jul 30
What a special morning in the garden! So lucky to have our sweet friends @ch.enders visit from Virginia & we harvested our biggest watermelon of the year ♥️ A 116 lb heartfelt harvest shared with our friends at the @chascolibrary !!!
Jul 29
Back by Popular Demand for Year Three!
Katie’s Krops is excited to host fall gardening classes with Stephen Chapman of Bonnie Plants.
Learn how to choose the right vegetables to grow in your fall/winter garden, when to plant, how to care for your garden, and how to produce a beautiful harvest for your family during the off-season. We are blessed to live in a climate that allows us to grow year-round. Learn how you can take advantage and provide yourself with healthy, fresh food. If you have already participated in a previous fall garden class with us, please allow someone else to fill the limited spots.
This will be a fun, interactive class for adults only. There is a $10 non-refundable fee. Please pay when you register to hold your spot.
Two classes will be offered on Saturday, August 24th, at 9 am and 10:30 am. Classes will fill quickly.
Jul 27
Today, we were lucky enough to watch a monarch caterpillar forming its chrysalis! When caterpillars are ready for this step in their lifecycle, they make a small silk pad and get into position - often called a “j hang.” It may look like nothing is happening at first, but there’s a big change happening under the surface! Once they’re ready, the caterpillar sheds its skin for the final time, revealing a chrysalis it’s been working hard to form. If you watch closely, you can see the caterpillar shed its skin for the last time and reveal the last stages of forming its chrysalis! Once completely formed, the chrysalis will harden protecting the caterpillar as it undergoes a huge transformation inside. Some time within the next two weeks, we will have a beautiful monarch butterfly emerge & join its friends in Monarch Meadows 🧡
Jul 26
Join us Today, Tuesday July 23rd at Planet Smoothie!
20% of sales from the day will support Katie’s Krops! Please pack the house! Stop by and grab a delicious cold smoothie on a hot day. Treat your coworkers to a treat. Stop by after your workout. If you have not tried Planet Smoothie, you are missing something special! Tuesday is a great day to stop by and enjoy a treat.
Additionally, at 11am, I will host storytime at Planet Smoothie to beat the heat! I hope all of our young volunteers and supporters can join me.
Planet Smoothie is located at 949 Orangeburg Road in Summerville. They will be open on Tuesday from 8 am to 8 pm. Please be sure to tell them that Katie sent you 😉
Jul 23
We are so lucky to have the best community partners! We spent the afternoon with our friends at Hearts for Summerville and Expanding the Table, serving free lunches, milk and Italian ices for kids out of school and their families. We had the best time and even had some amazing tiny helpers join us in passing out meals and drinks ♥️ We truly are better together!
Jul 22
We’re bringing you along to our July Katie’s Krops Dinner! Join us as we serve 625+ hot, healthy, fresh and free meals with the help of our incredible youth volunteers, amazing chef Chris, delivery drivers, and wonderful community members who have stepped up to donate milk, bake homemade desserts and pick up donations of other baked goods for us. We are a small but mighty team and we are so proud of our efforts! Thank you to everyone who helps make these dinners possible and to @svillebaptist for partnering with us for over 11 years now ♥️
Jul 19
What a fulfilling way to end the week, with an 212 lb heartfelt harvest shared today with our friends at the Murray Church Food Pantry and a fun morning in the garden with our amazing volunteers 💚
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