Grow Food for Good®
Grow Food for Good®
We serve families experiencing food insecurity by collecting excess fresh grown produce and eggs, providing tax deductible receipts to donors, and delivering everything to local food pantries. We also install outdoor gardens and indoor hydroponic grow towers at group homes and housing authority communities (for seniors and extra needs individuals). Watch this video to learn about GFG youth education and impact.
Would you like to contribute to the food security of your community? You can do one or more of the following:
Produce
- Identify a group home or church who would be willing to receive a planting bed from Kindship Farm in order to feed local residents and donate any excess, through GFG, to a local food pantry.
- Introduce us to local home/farm produce growers who might be willing, through GFG, to donate any part of their production to a local food pantry.
- Donate any part of your existing home/farm fresh produce production to a local food pantry through GFG.
- To make produce donations easy, we will pick up, clean, package, and deliver them to a food pantry.
Eggs
- Raise baby chicks with your kids, grandkids, or school students, and then donate them, through GFG, to a local home/farm who will, through GFG, contribute at least half of their egg production to a local food pantry. Chicks and related supplies may be provided if needed—see chick details below.
- Accept grown chicks into your home/farm flock and then, through GFG, donate at least half of their egg production to a local food pantry. Grown chicks will be free but NO supplies will be provided—see chick details below.
- Introduce us to local home/farm poultry growers who are willing, through GFG, to donate any part of their existing home/farm flock egg production to a local food pantry.
- Through GFG, donate any part of your existing home/farm flock egg production to a local food pantry.
- To make egg donations easy, we will pick up, clean, package, and deliver them to a food pantry.
Application process
All applications and contracts for the GFG program should be filled out, signed, and sent in to info@kinshipfarm.org. We regret that not every request can be fulfilled. Selected applicants will be notified in writing that their application has been accepted and then specific plans will be solidified.
Those interested in a complimentary pick-up of produce or eggs can send in their paperwork at any time. If you are within our pickup range, we will schedule a regular pickup window with you.
Applications and contracts for the produce program must be completed and signed by June 1, 2025.
Applications and contracts for the egg program must be completed and signed by March 28, 2025.
Chick details
Raising Kinship Farm chicks with kids, grandkids, and students is a wonderful opportunity to connect them with nature and their community.
If your application is accepted, Kinship Farm will select and provide six chicks, care guidelines, and the necessary housing, heat lamp, bedding, feed, grit, and dispensers. You will have the opportunity to raise the chicks indoors for approximately 5 months (from around April to September), in your home, garage, classroom, or church. You must promise to keep the chicks inside where there are no predators (like cats, etc.), to keep their bedding clean, and to keep their food, grit, and water fresh and topped up. You may appropriately name each chick, and should regularly and gently hand-cuddle them so they can mature into friendly, well socialized chickens. In September, you must return all of Kinship Farm's equipment, excess food, and grit.
In September, those who have raised chicks can either keep them as part of their own flock, and through GFG, donate at least half of their egg production to a local food pantry.
Some people may choose to return the chicks, in September, to Kinship Farm. Through GFG, we will find them a good forever home, where the majority of their eggs will be donated to a local food pantry.
Please direct all questions about our Grow Food for Good program to info@kinshipfarm.org
Grow Food for Good ~ Good News!
In 2024, Grow Food for Good delivered 2,654 fresh, free-range eggs to families served by the Acord Food Pantry in Hamilton, MA! Follow us on our Facebook and Instagram social media accounts for updates like the one to the right to track our progress during the year.
Community helping us grow in 2025!
We've surpassed the number of eggs donated last year! As of October 30, we've donated 4,098 ~ a gratifying YTD total thanks to our local incredibly generous backyard farmers!
Thank you to the dedicated team and volunteers at Acord Food Pantry! 💛
We couldn’t do this without your support. You, along with our backyard farmers and their happy, healthy hens are demonstrating how a community can come together to care for one another.
Together, we all can make a meaningful difference every single day.
Contact us to learn how you can help in our efforts to reduce food insecurity.
Bridgewell and Kinship Farm Partnership
In 2024, Grow Food for Good established 7 new gardens with raised beds at 5 group homes and 2 housing authority properties. You can visit Bridgewell's website to learn how our partnership has grown within their group homes and benefited their residents.
Support Grow Food for Good with a donation
Please consider donating today to help us expand this vital program. Your donation to Grow Food for Good benefits the environment helps us provide more gardens to group homes, gives more children the opportunity to raise baby chicks, delivers more fresh, locally grown produce and eggs to food pantries, and ensures more families in need have access to nutritious food. Together, we can cultivate hope, health, and a stronger, food-secure community.
