Eastport Community Farm (ECF)

We are growing leaders.

Eastport is a neighborhood rich in assets — generations of lived experience, visionary community leaders, fertile soil, dedicated growers, skilled hands, and young people hungry for opportunity. What this community has built through years of shared gardens, lifelong friendships, and grassroots leadership is the foundation of everything happening here.

The Eastport Community Farm is not being built for this community. It is being built by it.

In partnership with the Annapolis Housing Authority, we are transforming 1 acre of underutilized land in Annapolis’ largest public housing neighborhood into a thriving, community-led growing space. The neighborhood is classified by the USDA as a food desert — the nearest grocery store is more than a mile away — but the solution was never going to come from outside. It was always here, waiting for the right infrastructure to support it.

That infrastructure is what we are building now: 10,000 square feet of productive growing space, a greenhouse and classroom, a woodworking shop, and a home base for youth leadership programs already serving this neighborhood three nights a week. We project 100,000 servings of fresh vegetables in our first year, a site designed to become self-sustaining, and a generation of young people who helped build it with their own hands.

You decide where your investment grows. Our capital campaign gives you the opportunity to directly fund the pillars of this project — from physical infrastructure to youth development to organizational capacity. Every dollar stays rooted in Eastport, and every contribution strengthens something this community already has the vision and ability to sustain.