Community Care Share Program
In 2020, Conscious Homestead launched their Community Care Share Program with the redesign and expansion of Candace & Tony's gardens and building of a greenhouse to maximize the amount of food we could grow along with the timeframe we could we could grow on the homestead.
In 2021, the redesign was completed and we grew together in community with our fellows and volunteers an assortment of vegetables, fruits, botanicals, eggs and culinary & medicinal herbs to share with black and brown folks in our community for FREE. This continued through to 2022 with the support of volunteers and fellows. Over those two grow seasons we have distributed hundreds of FREE community care shares to BIPOC in our area.
In 2023 we received an LFPA grant to fund the expansion of our Community Care Share Program. This enabled us to hire our Community Care Share Program Manager, as well as, partner with other local homesteads and farms to provide more food each week to 30 BIPOC households in Vermont. We send care share recipients weekly newsletters that highlight the farms we collaborate with and include recipes that integrate foods in their weekly care share. Farms and food makers we partner with this year to provide FREE weekly care shares are: Khelcolm Farm*, Ananda Gardens*, Strafford Creamery*, Maplewind Farm, Lily Hammerling's Homestead*, Farmer James Keys Apiary*, VT Beancrafters, Thingz from Yaad*, Taste of Abyssinia*, Taino Kitchen* and our own Conscious Homestead*.
If you are a local farm, homestead or food maker and you are interested in partnering contact us at conscioushomestead@gmail.com.
Check out our Instagram where we share about our weekly care shares, in addition to other posts!
(All businesses with an * are BIPOC owned.)
In 2021, the redesign was completed and we grew together in community with our fellows and volunteers an assortment of vegetables, fruits, botanicals, eggs and culinary & medicinal herbs to share with black and brown folks in our community for FREE. This continued through to 2022 with the support of volunteers and fellows. Over those two grow seasons we have distributed hundreds of FREE community care shares to BIPOC in our area.
In 2023 we received an LFPA grant to fund the expansion of our Community Care Share Program. This enabled us to hire our Community Care Share Program Manager, as well as, partner with other local homesteads and farms to provide more food each week to 30 BIPOC households in Vermont. We send care share recipients weekly newsletters that highlight the farms we collaborate with and include recipes that integrate foods in their weekly care share. Farms and food makers we partner with this year to provide FREE weekly care shares are: Khelcolm Farm*, Ananda Gardens*, Strafford Creamery*, Maplewind Farm, Lily Hammerling's Homestead*, Farmer James Keys Apiary*, VT Beancrafters, Thingz from Yaad*, Taste of Abyssinia*, Taino Kitchen* and our own Conscious Homestead*.
If you are a local farm, homestead or food maker and you are interested in partnering contact us at conscioushomestead@gmail.com.
Check out our Instagram where we share about our weekly care shares, in addition to other posts!
(All businesses with an * are BIPOC owned.)