Community Dinner Fundraiser - SP26

Service Description

You're invited to a Community Dinner at Puh'Tok in the Pines on March 25 at 6 PM, an evening of delicious food, live music, and meaningful conversation in a serene, wooded setting. Gather with friends and neighbors to enjoy a shared meal and take part in a powerful panel discussion on supporting Ukrainian communities impacted by war, featuring insights into how nature can be a vital source of resilience and healing during times of crisis. All proceeds will support our scholarship fund, helping remove financial barriers to access nature-informed programming for those in need. Come for the food, stay for the inspiration—all are welcome! Featured Speaker: Quandra Gray is the Founder and Chief Cultivator of What The Sprout LLC, where she’s building Grow Well Pathways that connect food, wellness, and opportunity. Rooted in her West Baltimore upbringing and trained in design and agriculture education, she’s turning vertical farms into community-powered hubs that teach people how to grow food, support their health, and build economic resilience. Through hands-on learning, value-added products, and digital community spaces, she’s helping families and neighborhoods move toward food sovereignty and true freedom. Quandra’s talk, “Agriculture as a Social Solution: How Growing Food Rebuilds Community Power,” explores how growing food can do more than feed people — it can strengthen a neighborhood, build identity, and create space for community power to grow. Drawing from the approach being developed at the Grow Well Vertical Farm in Baltimore, the talk highlights how simple, hands-on growing practices can support wellness, build confidence, and open pathways to opportunity as the work continues to take shape.