Future Community Welcome Center

The Last Piece of the Puzzle

Since 2019, Columbia’s Agriculture Park has built a 29,000 square ft year-round home for Columbia Farmers Market (CFM), installed beautiful demonstration gardens, a schoolhouse, barn, and greenhouse for Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture’s (CCUA) programming, and beautified the park with a custom playground, walking paths, and pollinator friendly natives, but we’re not done yet!

There is one more puzzle piece–the park’s Community Welcome Center. This new building will provide permanent office space for CCUA and CFM, it will host space for educational programs in the kitchen, and it will provide affordable meeting space for community members in Columbia’s First Ward.

What’s Inside?

Kitchen

Columbia Farmers Market vendors can rent this commercial kitchen space to launch their food business. Healthy, local meals will be prepared to support community hunger relief. Cooking classes and activities will support nutrition education in the community.

Resource Library and Tool Check-out

Community members will be able to borrow gardening tools, home kitchen equipment, books, and other resources. Volunteers and staff will be available to answer questions about gardening and food preparation. Community members can sign up for Columbia Farmers Market and Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture Programs.

Activity Room

A large event hall will host educational programs year-round. The space will also be available to public and private groups to host community events and programs - an opportunity for more collaborations at the Park.

Office Space

Columbia Center for Urban Agricutlure and Columbia Farmers Market will use this space to coordinate impactful food security programs that support Veterans, food-insecure families, farmers, and people suffering from diet-related diseases.

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