Giving Garden is a Davis, California startup with a big, global mission to grow communities around food and food around communities. They believe that many issues such as food insecurity, obesity, diabetes, depression, and food deserts are connected to a broken food system and a breakdown in the connection between communities and their food. To address this, Giving Garden has launched an online community platform for knowledge sharing, with the aim of bringing local food and gardening into the 21st century.

Their platform, which is available on iOS, Android, and the web, allows gardeners and local-food enthusiasts to share ideas, questions, events, and extra homegrown produce. The app's grow algorithm uses location, weather, and plant data to recommend plants and planting dates. Giving Garden also plans to explore other features such as reducing food waste, fighting food insecurity, and incentivizing community involvement through karma points.

The Giving Garden team is small but mission-driven, bringing together individuals with backgrounds in user growth, geo-location technologies, mobile development, web development, and design. They are committed to fostering a creative and inclusive environment and are actively seeking interns to join their team