All together, VRDNT Farm has donated $3856 in veggies to our community partners in 2024. (And that's in just over 6 months. We've got more than 5 months to go this year!! )
$2300 of those donations came directly from CSA members donating your shares over the Christmas holidays and other weeks when you can't pick them up. (reminder: it is always an option to donate your share instead of pausing it whenever you can't pick it up)
Beyond the amount directly donated by CSA members, we have donated an additional $1556 of surplus veggies.
VRDNT's mission is to nourish the land and our local community by growing super-fresh, nutrient-dense veggies. We are so grateful to have your continued support to enact that mission here in Central Texas
Where do donated vegetables go, exactly?
For the first half of 2024, we donated all fresh veggies to Keep Austin Fed. Keep Austin Fed is a volunteer-powered organization that aggregates and distributes excess food to community members in need.
Mission: To reduce hunger and help the environment by connecting surplus food with our neighbors in need.
“It's bone-deep in me that sharing food nourishes and validates others and creates community. All things I want to be a part of. Plus waste....ugh!”
— Julie Webb, Keep Austin Fed Volunteer
To find out more about Keep Austin Fed, visit their website HERE
Beginning on July 1st, we began partnering with Sunday Lunchbox. We are SO EXCITED about this new partnership. Sunday Lunchbox is focused on children's food security and access to fresh, healthy food. Families in need receive weekly bags of healthy, minimally processed food and supplemental meals cooked in-house at Sunday Lunchbox's kitchens.
Mission: Sunday Lunchbox provides nutritious and community inspired food
for those most underserved by our food system in Austin.
To learn more about Sunday Lunchbox and to volunteer or donate, go to their website HERE
Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you CSA members!! Your direct donations and CSA membership supports us to give back to our community.
-Much Love and Gratitude,
Farmer Becky & the VRDNT Farm team
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