Category: Friends of GOFM

Currently, GOFM receives support from local donations, community sponsorships, fundraisers, and market stall fees. Galveston’s Own Farmers Market will put your gift right to work for our local food system & community.

Here are a few ways your contribution affects change:

$10/month equals:

• 1 wheelbarrow for a Young Gardeners Program garden site & 1 replacement wheel

• 6 shovels needed for monthly Community Days at 1 Young Gardeners Program garden site

• MicroLife fertilizer needed for 1 Young Gardeners Program garden site

• 500 flyers for advertising our free “Learn to Cook!” WIC cooking classes

• 8 customers who will get $15 of FreshBucks for buying local fruits and vegetables when they spend $15 of their own SNAP (foodstamps)

• Ingredients supplies for 5 “Taste the Market” booths, held monthly at the market

$15/month equals:

• new pop-up tents for market 

• 100 reusable grocery bags that we give away to first-time food-stamp & WIC customers

• wifi at the GOFM office

• 1000 flyers for advertising our free WIC Voucher program all year long

• supplies for 12 Young Gardeners Program “Diggin’ It” kids booths at GOFM (hands-on nature & science crafts)

• all the watering cans needed to manage Young Gardeners Program at 4 sites with an average of 140 kids

• creamer provided free to GOFM customers for every Sunday market (to go with the free coffee donated by Galveston Coffee Roasters!)

• replacement wheelchair ramp for market

$25/month equals:

• liability insurance for the market

• liability insurance for GOFM’s Backyard Growers Cooperative

• 1 ipad for a Young Gardeners Program school site, used to access weekly garden activity plans and daily curriculum  

• 40 GOFM caps

• assistance with Spanish translation for new program info & advertising, marketing and the GOFM website

$50/month equals:

• our ability to offer free recycling to the community at every GOFM market all year-long

• coordination of 6 cooking classes at The Kitchen Chick, Galveston College & our area WIC clinics

• 150 GOFM coffee mugs

• seeds needed for our Young Gardeners Program gardens at 4 schools

• average year of marketing design costs 

• annual Young Gardeners Program Session Leader training

$75/month equals:

• ingredients for 12 community dinners, serving up to 30 people

• ingredients for 12 cooking classes, serving up to 15 people

• Director’s & Officer’s Liability Insurance

$100/month equals: 

• Young Gardeners Program t-shirts for our Young Gardeners Program kids

• paying our Volunteer Coordinator, who manages over 200 volunteers for weekly market events and the Young Gardeners Program!

• rental of our OkraFest venue

• 100 canvas GOFM tote bags

• 4 Volunteer appreciation events + 6 market volunteer orientation trainings 

• 1 free “Learn to Cook” class at the Galveston & Texas City WIC Clinics 

$2,000/year equals:

• training for our Young Gardeners Program leadership team in order to learn how to make our after-school gardening program even better

•  Chef instruction of 40 Cooking Classes free to the public as part of our Real Food Project

• paying our live market musicians for 40 Sundays

• 2 months of employing a stellar Market Manager