Madison Area Food
Pantry Gardens
We Plant. We Grow. We Feed.
Our Mission
Striving to help our neighbors by providing local food pantries with first-choice, fresh, nutritious and culturally relevant produce.
Our Motto
We plant. We grow. We feed.
Our Members
Community members just like you along with businesses and organizations engaged in the local food system make MAFPG possible.
2 million pounds and counting!
Since our inception more than two decades ago, the Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens has grown, gleaned, and donated more than 2 million pounds of over 60 different varieties of first-choice, fresh, nutritious, and culturally relevant produce to the Dane County emergency food system. This amounts to more than 100,000 pounds of produce per season.
13,000 volunteers
Over 2,100 volunteers in our various garden locations help MAFPG realize its mission each year, and more than 13,000 individuals have helped us grow food for our neighbors since 2000. MAFPG welcomes individuals of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities.
10 gardens, 1 network
Thanks to generous landowners, affiliated churches and donors, MAFPG now has ten gardens located throughout Dane County. Our gardens range in size from less than one acre to 12 acres! In collaboration with community partners, MAFPG periodically surveys users of the emergency food system to establish what produce is in highest demand. This guides what we grow, and in turn, MAFPG helps create community-level nutrition security by increasing the supply of produce that meets the cultural and health needs of our community.
Growing and Giving
The Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens relies on incredible partners to help get the fresh produce we grow into the hands of our neighbors in need. In 2022, MAFPG supplied fruit and vegetables to 30 food pantries, community meal programs, and school programs including Bayview Foundation, Middleton Outreach Ministry, St. Vincent de Paul, Catholic Multicultural Center, Badger Prairie Needs Network, The Hmong Institute, and the Lussier Center.
Working Together
In 2022, MAFPG helped create this infographic that reflects the roles and relationships among community partners in Dane County’s emergency food system’s produce supply and demand that supports the vision,
Click on the infographic to the left (PDF) to learn about MAFPG's contributions to Dane County's community food system.