Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
We love to garden and know the benefits of gardening intimately, so when we had the opportunity to open up our land to help feed those struggling in our community, we jumped at it.
Did you know that King and Queen County leads the area in food insecurity and that there are no food grocery stores in the county itself? Hard to believe, amidst the rolling countryside, filled with farmers, but true.
Our Community Garden is a program designed to help feed food insecure families in King and Queen and surrounding counties. We plant, grow, harvest and deliver thousands of pounds of organic produce each year.
Thanks to a partnership with Thrive Virginia, we were able to launch the program last summer. Today, we produce hundreds of pounds of seasonal fresh produce including traditional vegetables and fruits, tomatoes, lettuces, peppers, zucchini, onions, garlic, cucumbers, peas, beans and more.
Together, we plan to grow, harvest and distribute hundreds of pounds of fresh vegetables to families in need. If you would like to be a part of this extraordinary mission, we could use all of the help we can get. Please go to our Ways to Help page and click on Volunteer.
One of the lovely parts of our non profit is the ability to integrate each of our programs with the other. We have children and seniors from our Healing with Horses program helping in our Community Garden program. And we have children from our Farm Day Trips working in our Healing with Horses program. It’s a beautiful symbiotic relationship.
