Raleigh City Farm

Raleigh City Farm is a nonprofit urban farm on North Blount Street, started in 2011 on a formerly vacant one-acre lot at the edge of downtown. It grows food, and it grows farmers, training the people who will be doing this work next.

Neighbors buy from the farmstand and work in the beds, which is how the farm connects city residents to food grown a few blocks from where they live. An agroecology team looks after the growing, and fifteen years in, the farmstand recipes have a following of their own.

What to know

• Volunteers can sign up at the Blount Street farm or at Marsh Creek Park.
• The expansion to a second site at Marsh Creek Park was announced in 2025.
• The farm marked its fifteenth anniversary in 2026.
• Mayor Janet Cowell declared April 25, 2026 to be Raleigh City Farm Day.
• A partnership with NC Grange is aimed at growing the next crop of farmers.