News & announcements

These are examples of news stories, program updates, and community highlights that have been published by or about Kinship Farm. Items may be crafted by us, our partners, or various news outlets, and will cover topics like new partnerships, project milestones, our impact, and fresh ways we’re cultivating ideas and projects related to spirituality, relationships, and the environment.

We’re grateful to share reflections from community members, partners, participants, and supporters who have experienced Kinship Farm’s work firsthand. These voices offer a glimpse into the relationships, growth, and meaningful impact that emerge when we come together to care and cultivate good for one another and our land.

2026 Grant Awards

We are deeply grateful to share that Kinship Farm has received the following grant awards in 2026:

Cape Ann Community Foundation

We are honored and deeply grateful to have been selected as a recipient of a 2026 grant award from the Cape Ann Community Foundation.

This investment in Kinship Farm's Grow Food for Good program helps strengthen local food security efforts, nurture meaningful community connections, and ensure that our neighbors have access to fresh, nourishing food.

These funds will help support the Ipswich Council on Aging's Community Cupboard in partnership with Three Sisters and their Soup Shares program. Together, we are cultivating more than food—we are growing relationships, building community, and creating opportunities for neighbors to care for one another.

We continue cultivating good through ideas, projects, relationships, and stewardship of the environment.

Fallon Health mini-grant award

We are deeply grateful to Fallon Health for awarding Kinship Farm’s Grow Food for Good program another mini-grant award of $1,000 again this year!

These funds go directly to supporting our Kinship Farm gardens food production. In 2025 we donated over 300 lbs., 2024 over 500 lbs., of produce and culinary herbs to our local food pantries.

We are once again honored by the trust and support from Fallon Health. Thank you for investing in our food program!

The Awesome Foundation

We are deeply grateful to share that Kinship Farm’s Grow Food for Good Repurposing Food Waste's program received a $1,000 Awesome Hamilton-Wenham award on Wednesday, March 25!

This award went directly to supporting repurposing food waste, from local food pantries, to help feed farm animals and provide vital nutrients in our compost soil production.

We are honored by the trust The Awesome Foundation has invested in our initiative!

Alignable business networking testimonial

Dave Williams

Therapy Gardens of Brockton, MA with SeniorU

Facebook GFG testimonial & recommendation

Ramona Pettygrave Shah

Ramona, Seth, their children, and their flock joined our Grow Food for Good (GFG) family in 2025. Ramona shared her family’s joy in being part of the program through a heartfelt Facebook testimonial, and we’re deeply grateful for their enthusiastic recommendation!

LinkedIn Testimonial

Julie Snorek, Ph.D.

Most change doesn’t start with big grants or bold headlines. It starts with small, deliberate acts—done consistently, in community. That’s why I’m honored to be joining the board of Kinship Farm in Massachusetts...

You can read the entire post by clicking here to connect on LinkedIn

Testimonial

Kristina Lindborg

"The beauty of Kinship Farm is that it is not confined to a place but is an idea. And like all good ideas that are founded on sharing, caring, and unselfishness, --they can be put to good use, -- everywhere.

My experience working with Susie Jostyn and all the participants who helped to unfold and realize Kinship Farm has provided me with valuable and practical lessons that I continue to apply to all my projects.

I am continually uplifted and inspired by the generosity, good-will, and love for others that all of Kinship Farm’s partners display. What an amazing group you all are!

The North Shore community is truly blest by the ideas that Kinship Farm champions and puts into action. They are a much needed light in the world and I am extremely grateful to contribute to it. " Kristina Lindborg

Grow food for good news updates

Kinship Farm, has grown into something eggstraordinary!

With help from our local backyard chicken farmers, we donated 4,262 eggs in 2025! That's 355 dozen acts of kindness that have reached neighbors in need!

The Acord Food Pantry received the majority of these eggs. In December we proudly began delivery to the Ipswich Council on Aging.

Thank you to every farmer, volunteer, and supporter who makes our Grow Food for Good program possible. Together, we provide fresh, free-range, nutritious eggs to our neighbors tables.

We are always welcoming local backyard chicken farmers willing to donate their eggs to our program - they receive a tax donation receipt for every egg donated.

Email us at info@kinshipfarm.org for more details!

2025 Grant Awards 🌱

Grow Food for Good

We are deeply grateful to share that Kinship Farm’s Grow Food for Good program received multiple grant awards in 2025. These grants helped us expand gardens, offer hydroponic growing, and food access initiatives across our community.

Thanks to the generous support of our funding partners and collaborators, these awards strengthen our ability to nourish our neighbors, steward the land, and build meaningful connections through local food.

We are honored by this trust and inspired to continue growing food for good together in 2026.