Honoring 10 Years in Aspen in the Mardi Garden
Mardi Gras was made for this. A tradition rooted in feasts, abundance, and the radical idea that good things should be shared widely, it's the perfect spirit to carry into Aspen for an evening of celebration and purpose.
For a decade, we've brought together people who believe that growing food changes lives. You are among them. This year we’re going bigger than we have before. Will you join us to see what the next 10 years of growing will bring?
Growing Food
Changes Lives.
Big Green is on a bold mission to grow more food across the country and put fresh, healthy food on every table in America. Since 2011, we've never stopped believing that growing food changes lives. Our network of over 200 partners, grantees, and growers aren't just producing millions of pounds of fresh food; they're increasing food security, improving the health of the neighbors, strengthening local economies, and restoring environments. We’re consistently proving that when communities control their food systems, they control their futures.
In Aspen, we celebrate our collective power to change food systems across America.
Why Food?
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Food security starts with access. Big Green backs local leaders building emergency food infrastructure, reducing household food costs, and putting fresh food within reach in communities that have been left out of the food system for too long.
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Food is medicine. Growing it is one of the most direct ways to make good nutrition accessible while building food literacy, shifting behavior, and preventing diet-related disease through education and community-led growing.
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Community gardens do quiet, powerful work. Local food systems are an environmental strategy hiding in plain sight, creating biodiversity, sustainable agriculture, urban green space, and climate resilience.
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When people grow food together, they build something that lasts. Youth engagement, cultural food heritage, economic opportunity, and intergenerational connection… growing food is community-building by another name.
