Welcome to
Radiance Gardens
Reconnecting communities to culturally revelant food
Radiance Gardens is a regenerative garden growing culturally relevant food to dismantle food apartheid while empowering women and girls to advance community wellness in Connecticut through food justice and sovereignty.
Food Access
We grow culturally rooted, regenerative produce to ensure food security, and health equity. Everyone has the right to grow, prepare, and enjoy their cultural foods. Everyone has a right to be connected to the land and to one another.
Our Programs
Food & Garden Education
We equip women to care for their bodies, minds, and spirits through faith-guided nutrition, herbal remedies, and lifestyle practices. By integrating practical wellness strategies with biblical insights, we support healing, balance, and vitality in everyday life.
Food Justice Advocacy
We mobilize community members to advocate for equitable food policies, strengthen local food systems, and reduce health disparities. By addressing systemic barriers to food access and promoting food sovereignty, we build resilient, healthy communities.
Support Radiance Gardens
Together, we can end food apartheid and restore dignity through culturally rooted, community-driven solutions. Your support helps Radiance Gardens grow fresh, healthy food; teach hands-on food and gardening education; and empower communities to reclaim sovereignty over their local food systems.
Your gift helps us build new raised beds, purchase seeds and soil, replace worn tools, and create a welcoming space with signage and a tool shed for our volunteers and youth programs.
Radiance Gardens, Inc is fiscally sponsored by Christian Home Educators Support System, Inc (CHESS)
Visit Us
We are grateful for the partnership to co-manage Mansfield Community Garden through Gather New Haven.
To volunteer or join the community garden at 191 Mansfield St, New Haven, Connecticut please complete the form below:
Garden Gallery
“Food is a tool of resistance. It’s about empowering people to have control over their food system, to eat the food that nourishes them and their community."
Karen Washington
"The land wasn’t the crime; it was just at the scene of the crime."
Leah Penniman