Produce Donations

Since our farm’s first year, we have been making weekly produce donations during the growing season to the Newton Food Pantry, an independent nonprofit housed in the basement of Newton City Hall. It operates through the efforts of more than 100 volunteers, ongoing partnerships with over 25 organizations, and financial contributions from its supporters. The pantry distributes donations from the Greater Boston Food Bank, local farms, community gardens, food recovery organizations and businesses, as well as additional items purchased from local wholesale and discount businesses when necessary to provide more than 900 households a month with food, personal-care products, and cleaning supplies.

The Newton Community Freedge is open all day, every day at 420 Watertown Street. On average, 15 shoppers per hour visit the Freedge for supplemental food and personal care items. This volunteer-led initiative, organized by the Newton Food Pantry in collaboration with other local organizations,  joins a growing network of free refrigerators in the Greater Boston area and throughout the country. Deb Hall, NCF board member and Freedge restocking coordinator, says that the Freedge users appreciate all the fresh produce donated by the Farm.

A volunteer crew from Boston Area Gleaners harvested 185 pounds of spinach, 167 pounds of turnips, 44 pounds of sugar snap peas, and 40 pounds of lettuce for our neighbors in need.

The Spoonfuls truck backs in to the driveway by the barn to get ready to add freshly harvested NCF produce to their load of bananas.