Doing Good Close to Home
Doing Good Close to Home
Alstede Farms is proud to be able to give back to our community in a variety of ways including donation of fresh, homegrown produce throughout the year. Alstede Farms contributes to various organizations that help feed people and provide food security and our top four benefactors include; Interfaith Food Pantry Network, Table of Hope, Farmers… Read More »
Alstede Farms is proud to be able to give back to our community in a variety of ways including donation of fresh, homegrown produce throughout the year. Alstede Farms contributes to various organizations that help feed people and provide food security and our top four benefactors include; Interfaith Food Pantry Network, Table of Hope, Farmers Against Hunger and Chester Mendham Food Pantry.
These food donations have improved the health and well being of members of our community by providing access to healthy fruits and vegetables to those in need and who may otherwise go without. Our donations include fresh fruit and vegetables grown on our farm sent to the Interfaith Food Pantry Network weekly (in season) contributing toward their free farmers market distribution to neighboring towns as well as toward their mobile food pantry and network outreach programs. We have also donated produce for use in their Healthy Choices program where their nutrition educator provides instruction on how to prepare healthy foods for managing health and well being.
We also partner throughout the year with Table of Hope and Spring Street CDC which is an organization that serves free meals to the community in addition to hosting several holiday food distributions in Morris County, where we provide fruits and vegetables for their food baskets along with assistance in procuring Turkeys or other food stuffs.
Farmers against Hunger is another cause we stand behind which is organized by The New Jersey Agricultural Society, the oldest organization of its type established in 1781. We share in the Farmers Against Hunger mission in reducing overall food waste and directing food resources to those in need while also reducing food insecurity. That is why we have dedicated our resources toward helping this organization feed
people throughout the state through their various programs and outreach.
We are extremely proud supporters of our local Chester Mendham Food Pantry, where we provide fresh fruits and vegetables that are distributed to those in need in our local community once per week. Neighbors taking care of neighbors is something we believe in and are proud to help the Chester Mendham Food Pantry with this mission.
All of these efforts helped us donate over 54,200 pounds of food in 2021! Thank you for your contribution to these efforts with your support of our family owned farm and by supporting the local. We can’t wait to continue to do more good deeds in 2022.
