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.

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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.

 

600,000lbs+
Fresh Produce Donated

300+
Gardens Planted

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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.

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      When COVID-19 hit, our Katie’s Krops Dinner guests who were ill in quarantine and in dire need of help reached out, asking for our assistance.  We contacted our volunteers, who stepped up to deliver meals and quickly learned that the need for delivery reached far beyond those sick with COVID.In a community without public transportation, a car breakdown can cut off access to basic needs, and illness can isolate someone living independently. There are so many reasons someone cannot attend our dinners in person. Our team of delivery drivers is a blessing to so many of our neighbors.Yesterday, fifteen teams fanned out across our community, routed in love and sharing meals.  300 dinners were delivered to 46 addresses and to our local homeless encampments and shleters.  You never realize how expansive Summerville is until you start mapping meal deliveries.To our wonderful delivery volunteers, thank you!  You are what makes Katie’s Krops so special, and we are so grateful for your kindness. #volunteer #delivery #caringforothers
      It’s officially spring and we couldn’t be more excited!! Our amazing young volunteers harvested some of the last of our fall crops, including delicious @bonnieplants kale + celery! This heartfelt harvest went to our Katie’s Krops Dinner and helped make a garden fresh and tasty salad for our guests 💚💚
      From our garden to yours, here’s to the amazing girls and women dedicated to ending hunger in their communities! We are so proud to have so many incredible girls as a part of our Katie’s Krops Growing Family, growing a healthy end to hunger, one vegetable garden at a time🩷 Happy International Women’s Day to all the wonderful women out there changing the world! #internationalwomensday
      We are very excited to welcome our new 2024 Katie’s Krops Growers who will join kids all across the country who are growing a heartfelt harvest. We have Growers that have now been growing with us for 13 years. In the coming months we will we will share their stories, their harvests and the impact they are having on hunger and food insecurity in their communities. Thank you @parkseedco for making all of this possible. katieskrops #gardeningforgood #heartfeltharvest
      Blessed! Grateful! Thankful! It is difficult to put into words how grateful we are to the amazing serve team from @seacoastsummerville for sharing their time, energy and talents with us while we prepare for spring planting. When we come together we can accomplish amazing things. Here is to another record breaking year to aid our neighbors facing hunger and food insecurity. #serveday2024
      Did you know that Katie’s Krops started with the @bonnieplants Third-Grade Cabbage Program? One tiny seedling Katie received in the 3rd grade grew into a 40-pound cabbage; the rest is history. That cabbage inspired her to start a nationwide movement to grow a better tomorrow for those struggling with hunger and food insecurity.Our friends at Bonnie Plants are sharing cabbage seedlings with us, and we want to inspire the next generation of gardeners and philanthropists.Join us for a pop-up event on Tuesday, March 5th at 11 am in our flagship garden. Learn how Katie’s Krops started and receive your cabbage seedling.This event will be held in the Katie’s Krops Flagship Garden located on the campus of Crossroads Community Church at 505 Gahagan Road in Summerville.You don’t need to sign up. We hope you will join us. #youthgardening #cabbage #joinus
      Yesterday we shared our heartfelt harvest with our friends at Radcliffe Manor, a low income senior housing complex in Charleston ♥️ Our incredible volunteers harvested 184 lbs of collards, kale, cabbage & celery from our flagship garden during our garden work morning that we were able to share that afternoon! The residents are Radcliffe Manor hold such a special place in our hearts and the smiles on their faces when they see the vegetables we bring over is priceless. Thank you for helping us continue to provide a heartfelt harvest to the community!
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      Save BIG on the Soil we ❤️ while supporting Katie’s Krops! Sale ends tomorrow!
The soil in which you grow is the root of every successful garden. Our garden production doubled when we started using BigYellowBags of Soil³. With the addition of Soil³, your dirt becomes what nature intended for roots to grow in – healthy ground with good structure (air space for water, oxygen, and roots) and the ability to handle water correctly (to drain when too wet and to hold water when too dry). In addition, @soil3organiccompost is full of natural nutrients that have almost eliminated the need for fertilizers in our garden. The BigYellowBags are delivered right to your garden!
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Using our unique discount code, you will save an EXTRA $5 off on top of the current $30 sale. That is $35 off a bag. Order now to save and help your garden thrive this spring! Katie’s Krops will receive a donation for every bag ordered using the link below!
The $30 off sale runs until 2/29. The $5 off using our code runs year-round.
You can click the button below to order today. Please share our custom unique code with all of your gardening friends. This link saves you money and supports Katie’s Krops.
BigYellowBags are available in South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. The code will work everywhere bags are sold.
Your Katie’s Krops discount code should appear when you hit ‘Check Out’ and show as code KatiesKrops2024.
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      We’re taking you to storytime this morning! Join us as we read, take a walk around the garden + munch on some veggies 🌱📚♥️
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      We saved the sweetest family for last; our 2023 Katie’s Krops Family of the Year is the Whetstone Family!
We are so lucky that this incredible family became members of Crossroads Community Church - Summerville, SC, and a part of the Katie’s Krops Family.
The first time I ever met the Whestones was during storytime in the outdoor classroom, where sweet Sumner took his very first steps! Sumner, Odie, Evie, and their parents Havilah and Jordan became regular volunteers in the garden, always excited to help out! Their dad, Jordan, has taken over and nurtured our nine compost bins, helping us on our journey to become more sustainable and send less waste to landfills.
Along with their work in the garden, Evie and her mom, Haviliah, have become a regular part of our Katie’s Krops Dinners, helping us transform the vegetables from the garden into delicious and healthy meals!
A little over a year ago, the Whetsones welcomed Thea, and she has grown up in our flagship garden and become such a wonderful helper at such a young age. She was a week old the first time she joined us in the garden.
To know this family is to love them. They are dedicated to everything they do and always come to the garden with the biggest smiles on their faces. Their enthusiasm is infectious, and we are so proud to name them our 2023 Family of the Year! Thank you for the countless hours y’all have logged in the garden, at the dinners and spreading love to our community!
#volunteerfamily
      From our garden to yours, we’re wishing you a Valentine’s Day rooted in love!
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We are so excited to share these beautiful flower arrangements, cards and today’s harvest with our friends in low-income senior housing in Charleston to spread some love and a heartfelt harvest today ♥️🌱
      Wishing the happiest of birthdays to the President of Katie’s Krops and my best friend, my momma ♥️ I am so grateful to get to work side by side with you everyday, creating the most wonderful relationships with our volunteers, growing family, dinner guests and community, as we fight to end hunger, one vegetable garden at a time! Katie’s Krops wouldn’t be here without you, and I wouldn’t be the person I am today without your love and support. I love you to the moon!
      Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow, so you know what that means! An early spring is in store, which is great news for gardeners! What crops are you most excited to get in the ground for the spring growing season? 🌱🍅🌤️🍆🫑💐
      Spend a morning with us rooted in love! Wednesdays are some of our favorite days because we get to spend them in the garden with our incredible youth volunteers learning, growing and giving ♥️ Today we were able to harvest over 120 lbs of produce that we shared with our friends at @chascolibrary and the residents of Radcliffe Manor. Thank you for helping us grow and share a heartfelt harvest with our neighbors in need! 🌱🐝
      Thanks to our incredible volunteers, we’re ready to begin amending our beds for spring planting soon with @soil3organiccompost! What a wonderful Saturday morning in the garden repairing our beds and getting the garden ready for another record breaking year 🌱♥️
      We are incredibly proud to share that in 2023, our young Katie’s Krops Growers collectively donated 71,702 pounds of healthy fresh produce to their neighbors facing hunger and food insecurity. This is a true testament to the power of youth. It doesn’t matter your age, you can change the world! We are so proud of our Katie’s Krops Growing Family who continue to grow a heartfelt harvest to share with their neighbors in need ♥️🌱