CROPS Nonprofit

•Communities Revolutionizing Open Public Spaces•
Our mission is to alleviate food insecurity🌱

06/23/2026

📷 A few snapshots from our first Farmers Market of the season at Fisherman's Park Community Garden! We hope you can join us this week- more details below! ⬇️

We warmly invite you to join us for this season’s farmers markets where you can shop for locally grown vegetables, fruit and herbs using a variety of payment methods including food benefits (SNAP/EBT, Good Food Bucks, WIC FMNP, & Senior FMNP).

You’ll not only go home with nutritious and delicious produce, but also meet your neighbors, talk with the farmers who grow your food, and take home additional items like recipes!

📅 Fridays from June 19-September 18
🕐 4-6pm
📍 Fisherman’s Park in Atlantic City
🚗 Free parking on the street! . .

06/19/2026

🥁 Drumroll please... many of you know him as Owner and Executive Chef of Cardinal... and now, WE ARE SO EXCITED to welcome Michael Brennan to the C.R.O.P.S. Board! 🎉🎉🎉

Chef Michael Brennan has been a huge supporter of C.R.O.P.S. & our mission along with being a huge, positive influence in Atlantic City for a very long time!

We are so happy to have you, Chef!

06/18/2026

The weather is looking gorgeous tomorrow, June 19 for ☀️ Fridays☀️ & 🌸Flower Fridays🌸 at Fisherman's Park and we hope you can join us especially since it's the first day of this season's Farmers Market!

Details are below or swipe ➡️ to the last 2 images! . .
● Summer Fridays:

🌱☀️🥬 C.R.O.P.S. is excited to share that our Summer Fridays program, now in its 2nd year as a partnership with Atlantic Center for Independent Living, it continues through September 19th!

In this program, the C.R.O.P.S. Team will facilitate inclusive programming in Fisherman’s Park Community Garden for all participants, with focuses on gardening and nutrition - and free, roundtrip jitney transportation from multiple locations in Atlantic City & Pleasantville to increase access to fresh, locally grown food. This programming will provide participants with enjoyable, interactive experiences in Fisherman’s Park Community Garden to foster a connection with nature through gardening and wildlife habitat exploration, as well as a Farmers Market experience. . .
● Flower Fridays:

🌼 Learn about & harvest edible flowers growing in Fisherman’s Park Community Garden- make floral art or add them to salads, desserts or smoothies for fun flavor, texture & color!

🦋 Learn about how flowers provide food for pollinators! . .

06/17/2026

Everyone, please welcome to the C.R.O.P.S. Team, Lily Herndon, our Program Facilitator! 🎉

Here's what Lily says, "One thing that I love about locally grown produce is the way that it is able to connect people with the land and also each other."

06/16/2026

Everyone, please welcome to the C.R.O.P.S. Team, our Program Facilitator, Rachel Vanace! 🎉

Here's what Rachel says, "One aspect I am particularly looking forward to is the opportunity to provide nutrition education to members of the local community. I am also excited to expand my gardening knowledge and develop the skills needed to grow and maintain a more successful garden of my own."

06/15/2026

Hi C.R.O.P.S. Fam! We got a new phone ☎️ 609-266-6963

Please note & share this as our old number is no longer active!

Thank you for your continued love & support ❤️

06/12/2026

🌱 Feel Good Friday 🌱

C.R.O.P.S. aims to be zero waste in the food pathway we facilitate in South Jersey as we connect farmers to our Atlantic City community - we love fresh produce!!

After a recent pop-up market, our Team stopped by Oceanside I Family Success Center with surplus produce that could be stored in the refrigerator there that’s part of our Refrigeration Program - before the produce is connected to Oceanside I’s programming participants.

Thank you to Oceanside I for your partnership - we appreciate you! ♥️

06/11/2026

☀️Summer Fridays☀️ & 🌸Flower Fridays🌸 returns tomorrow, June 12th at Fisherman's Park and we hope you can join us!

Details are below or swipe ➡️ to the last 3 images! . .
● Summer Fridays:

🌱☀️🥬 C.R.O.P.S. is excited to share that our Summer Fridays program, now in its 2nd year as a partnership with Atlantic Center for Independent Living, begins June 5th and continues through September 19th!

In this program, the C.R.O.P.S. Team will facilitate inclusive programming in Fisherman’s Park Community Garden for all participants, with focuses on gardening and nutrition - and free, roundtrip jitney transportation from multiple locations in Atlantic City & Pleasantville to increase access to fresh, locally grown food. This programming will provide participants with enjoyable, interactive experiences in Fisherman’s Park Community Garden to foster a connection with nature through gardening and wildlife habitat exploration, as well as a Farmers Market experience. . .
● Flower Fridays:

🌼 Learn about & harvest edible flowers growing in Fisherman’s Park Community Garden (pictured above) - make a bouquet or add them to salads, desserts or smoothies for fun flavor, texture & color!

🦋 Learn about how flowers provide food for pollinators! . .

06/09/2026

🌱 Recently, our board member and amazing mentor, Chi Hitchins, came to present to UCAN Farmer Participants Cohort 1, about "Running Your Farm Like a Business"!

She gave us some good tips on setting up our systems for success so we can all find time for rest, relaxation, and self care.

The Farmers were able to identify some goals about setting up a marketing schedule and keeping consistent with data and reviewing that data to be the most successful business they can be. Thank you so much, Chi! ♥️ . .
C.R.O.P.S.’s UCAN (Urban Coastal Agriculture Network) Farming Program is a farmer training program and is one of the six components of our Funding Agreements with the CRDA. Through a series of education sessions, hands-on farming activities and farm field trips with the C.R.O.P.S. Team, farmer participants in our program learn farming skills as well as business skills like bookkeeping and marketing to set them up for success as they build their own urban farming business as part of strengthening Atlantic City as a Farm to Fork City. . .

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06/08/2026

The Atlantic City Fresh Food Map has been updated for 2026 and includes locations where our community can locate fresh food in or in a food pathway to Atlantic City! 🙌

On the map, you can find Farmers Markets, Food Pantries or Distribution Locations, Gardens, Soup Kitchens, Food-related Programs, Food Stores, and Farms. 🌱🥕🥬🥣🛍

This project is in its second year and we would like to thank our community partners for their collaboration as the C.R.O.P.S. Team made phone calls and visits to partner locations to check in about addresses, days & hours of operation, and contact information so that the Map’s many locations are up to date & create a useful tool for anyone to use as a means of accessing fresh food.

What do you think of it? Have you used it yet?

Please share this with anyone that you think may find it helpful!

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