Modest Family Solutions Receives Cost Share Award

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Modest Family Solutions is a non-profit on the front lines of addressing food insecurity. They grow food using sustainable, innovative gardening techniques like hydroponics (growing crops without soil) and aquaponics (using fish waste as nutrients while also filtering the water). They also manage the Agroecology Center in Everett, which leads community youth programs that teach the basics of gardening, composting, and hydroponics farming.

As a recipient of our Lawns to Lettuce cost share award, Modest Family Solutions is using the funding to increase vegetable production from the aquaponics and hydroponics gardening systems. 

Adasha Turner, Executive Director and founder of Modest Family Solutions, is passionate about food security for underserved communities such as recent immigrants, refugees, and low-income populations. Adasha has built dozens of partnerships and helps facilitate the distribution of over 2,000 food boxes throughout Snohomish County, totaling over 20,000 pounds of food each week. 

Modest Family Solutions is currently welcoming volunteer applications. Learn more at their website. We're excited to be a part of the great work that they’re involved with within the greater Snohomish County community!

If you or someone you know is interested in learning more about growing your own food, or other aspects of urban agriculture, please reach out to us with any questions or request assistance by emailing Urban Agriculture Program Coordinator Joe Crumbley.

Shop local!

Modest Family Solutions also promotes food grown by local BIPOC farmers through a market stand in Bothell. Locally-sourced produce, Halal meat, and other shelf staples are all available for purchase. 

Some of the community partners represented at this stand are:

Pictured here is Adasha with her daughter at the market stand!

  • Garden of Eden Urban Farming

  • Lesedi Farm

  • Honest Mocha

  • Yakima Farmers

  • Alvarez Farms

  • Friendly Hmong Farmers

  • Agroecology Center

You can find the market stand at 18122 Bothell Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011.

Our work with Washington Farmland Trust’s Farm To Farmer (F2F) program involves some of the communities that Modest Family Solutions partners with. This overlapping mission is one of the reasons we value working with them!