- July 28, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A family farm is literally feeding into the community. The Elephant Gardens provides fresh food to families living in one of many food deserts in the city.
It’s a business with a culmination of love for family and community. When this family moved to this community near 34th Street and Sherman Drive, access to fresh groceries and food was actually a lot easier. While this started as a way to feed the family, they noticed inadequacies that required them to expand.
The Elephant Gardens began when the family bought a patch of land in 2006, and with matriarch Joyce Randolph at the front, this family has toiled the soil.
“We just put things in the ground and walk by faith because we have no control after we put the seed in the ground,” co-owner Joyce Randolph said.
The plan for a garden was her daughter, Vivian Muhammad’s, idea to feed the family homegrown, organic veggies. However, in 2016,…
