Upcoming Events Featuring Farmer Dave or our Community Partners!
Save the date for the following events!
Sunday, May 3rd
Boston, MA
On Sunday, May 3rd, Farmer Dave's CSA team is proud to be joining in Project Bread's Walk for Hunger. Please consider joining our walk team or making a donation. Every May, over 40,000 people walk all or part of a 20-mile course through Greater Boston, earning the pledges they've collected to support Project Bread's fresh approach to ending hunger in our state. Together, we raise awareness of the reality of hunger in our state, make a powerful statement about our shared commitment to help people in need, and, importantly, raise funds that make it possible to develop, fund, and facilitate much-needed programs-programs that interrupt the cycle of food insecurity in our communities, programs that provide hope.
By sponsoring our Walk, you help change thousands of lives across our state. For many individuals and families across the state, hunger is a very real part of their daily lives. In fact, the rate of household food insecurity is 71% higher than it was a decade ago, up from 6.2% in 2003 to 10.6% in 2013. Last year, Project Bread funded over 400 community food programs that meet people where they are: programs that offer help without stigma... programs that offer a hand-up, not a hand out. Project Bread responds to hunger in both immediate and long-term ways, with innovative, effective solutions dedicated to strengthening individuals, families, communities-and our state as a whole.
Donate today!This is YOUR Walk too. Please donate to support our efforts, or join us by walking and raising money yourself: either way you are making a real difference in the lives of people across Massachusetts.
Farmer Dave's community partners in Lawrence, East Boston and Malden all receive generous grants from Project Bread to help fund their hunger relief programs including programs that help subsidize the cost of CSA shares for low income families. We would love to have a large group of our friends and CSA members join us at the Walk for Hunger to show our support for Project Bread.
To show our appreciation Farmer Dave has generously offered to thank our team members with the following gifts for meeting these fundraising goals:- Raise $50 and look like a part of the team with a Farmer Dave's t-shirt to wear during the Walk for Hunger
- Raise $100 and receive a t-shirt and a rosemary plant
- Raise $250 and receive a t-shirt, a rosemary plant, and a hanging cherry tomato container
- Raise $500 and receive a t-shirt, a rosemary plant, a hanging cherry tomato container and a hanging flower basket!
- Raise $1000 and Farmer Dave will thank you and three of your friends with a private tour of his farm and answer all of your gardening and farming questions one-on-one!
- Raise $2000 and Farmer Dave will host you and three of your friends at his farm for an amazing Farm to Table dinner. It doesn't get any more direct than eating dinner steps from where it was grown!
To participate, click here, and click the "Join Team" button on the right side of the screen.
The Open Door: Empty Bowl Dinner
Thursday, May 14th 4pm - 8pm
Cruiseport Gloucester
6 Rowe Square
Gloucester, MA
"Join us for an evening of food and hospitality.
The meal is simple-soup, bread and a cookie. Guests can choose and keep a soup bowl handcrafted for this community event. The bowl goes home as an unspoken reminder that somewhere someone's bowl is empty.
Extra parking is available at Harbor Beach with complimentary trolley service to and from the event site.
Tickets available at the door. $15 for adults and $10 for children under ten.
Empty Bowl events are held nationally to generate awareness concerning hunger and to raise money for local hunger-relief programs. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Summer Meals and Mobile Market programs."
More info here.