🌱 This is a 100% online fundraising event to secure the building that will become our community’s shared garden space, farm store, and co-op homebase.
No tickets, no in-person meeting — just collective action, shared purpose, and community support.
💛 Why We’re Fundraising
The Downtown Rome Community Garden has officially filed for nonprofit status, and we’re transforming The Hive building into a community-owned, community-led space where:
✨ Local growers, farmers, and cottage food makers can sell their goods
✨ We host classes, meetings, skillshares, and community gatherings
✨ Mutual aid markets and potlucks have a home
✨ Garden surplus becomes affordable, accessible food
✨ Makers, homesteaders, and creatives can thrive
✨ EVERYONE is welcomed, supported, and included
To cross the threshold and secure the building, we need to raise the remaining amount of $840 — and we’re inviting the whole community to help us get there. (We have raised $360 in just a few days out of $1200 goal)
🐝 A Call to Makers, Farmers & Cottage Food Producers
We are actively looking for local people who want to sell their goods in the space.
We have:
• a giant commercial freezer
• a large refrigerated display unit
• shelves + tables for dry goods
• a storefront in Downtown Rome with foot traffic ready to support you
If you make or grow or teach about:
🥚 eggs
🍞 bread
🧼 soaps
🍄 mushrooms
🥩 local meats
🍪 cottage foods
🌿 herbal products
🍯 value-added farm goods
—or anything aligned—
We want you here.
Send us a message or comment on this event.
🌿 What This Fundraiser Supports
Your donation helps us secure the space so we can build:
• a community co-op
• an affordable class/meeting space
• a homebase for the garden
• a central spot for mutual aid + food access
• a sustainable farm store run BY the community, FOR the community
This is about keeping community resources in community hands.
✨ How You Can Help
❤️ Donate (any amount helps)
📣 Share the fundraiser
💬 Comment to boost visibility
📨 Invite friends to the event
🤝 Reach out if you want to sell your goods or teach a class in the store
Even the smallest action helps push this mission forward.
🎉 Let’s Do This Together
The Hive has always been a place of care, connection, and community magic.
Now it’s time to grow it into something even bigger — something all of us can share.
Join us, donate if you can, and help spread the word.
Let’s save this space and root it deeply into the heart of Rome. 🌱💛🐝
Also check out other Nonprofit events in Rome, Workshops in Rome, Meetups in Rome.
