WELCOME TO
Radiance Gardens
A faith-based, community garden dedicated to cultivating vegetables, herbs, and flowers while promoting wellness, education, and empowerment for BIPOC women and girls.
Our Programs
Farm-to-School
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Through hands-on gardening, cooking, and storytelling, youth grades 3rd-12th explore Black/African American, Afro-Caribbean, African, Latinx/Chicanx/Hispanic, and Indigenous foodways learning how culture, history, and traditions all come together.
Students learn to grow their own food. Cook nutritious, culturally relevant meals that honor their heritage. Take action for food justice and community change. Understand how food connects to land, health, and identity. Build confidence, leadership, and teamwork through creative expression and service projects.
Garden Workshops
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Through hands-on workshops and seasonal gatherings, gardeners learn to grow culturally relevant crops like collards, okra, callaloo, peppers, beans, and medicinal herbs. Exchange recipes, stories, and traditions that honor their cultural roots. Harvest and cook together. Build community bonding through shared stewardship and care for the land.
Food & Nutrition Education
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Though interactive cooking demonstrations, participants will learn to eat healthier with simple, affordable, and culturally relevant recipes. Shop local and stretch your food dollars with confidence. Grow and cook your own food using accessible, garden-to-table techniques. Get active through community gardening and wellness activities. Build community through shared learning, story exchange, and cultural celebration.
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:
Donate to 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)
“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