FAIR HARVEST
Farm to Food Bank buys fresh produce from local growers and delivers it to food pantries across the South Coast at no cost to them. It reaches people a farm share can't — households without a way to get to Lakeville, seniors, families in shelter.
The Greater Boston Food Bank puts food insecurity at 48% of adults in Bristol County. The food is grown right here. Families just can't afford it.
Each household gets a $350 Harvest Card to spend at Elliot Farm's store in Lakeville, our farm partner — a produce farm and food hub that carries food from about 20 other Massachusetts growers and producers: produce, dairy, meat, fish, bread and pantry staples. Families choose their own food, on the same shelves, in the same line, at the same prices as every other customer.
We buy that food at full retail price. Never surplus, never seconds. The same dollar feeds a household and puts growing-season income into small Massachusetts farms.
In 2026, 685 households applied for 255 shares in eight days — half of them in the first 24 hours. The families we served had a median income of $18,000 and included 314 children.
Farm to Future places people in paid seasonal jobs at our partner farms, with priority for Gateway City residents. The work teaches growing, harvesting and selling — at farm stands, through CSAs, at farmers markets — and those skills carry into any career.
The program is on hiatus for 2026 so we could grow Farm to Family more than 70% on the same staff. We'll bring it back as funding allows.