Mutual Aid
FRESH PRODUCE DELIVERIES TO LOCAL FOOD RELIEF DISTRIBUTION SITES
In 2023 Mutual Aid raised $5936
all thanks to your contributions
You can see what that looks like in fresh produce deliveries
in a few photos from last season below
For 2024 the goal is to raise $6500
As of 4/1/24, $5800 has been raised for the 2024 Mutual Aid goal
Thank you so much!
“Mutual aid is about cooperating to serve community members. Mutual aid creates networks of care and generosity to meet the immediate needs of our neighbors.”
Mutual Aid is not new a new concept, there is a long history to this mode of community mobilization. To learn more, please read this article by Victoria Méndez at Global Giving. The quote above is sourced directly from that same article.
Typically, the market garden applies for and hopes to receive grant funding to distribute fresh produce to the community. If we're lucky enough to receive this funding, we usually aren't notified until after our crop plan is created. Meaning it happens too late for us to bump up numbers and plan for extra yield.
Mutual Aid reduces the need to rely on grants, and gives us the opportunity to distribute fresh produce directly to the community. What's more, that fresh produce will be headed to well established food distribution hubs & organizations.
With any funding we receive for Mutual Aid, we will provide free fresh and premium quality produce* to two primary locations in Haywood County:
*Additionally, we will value the produce at wholesale pricing - meaning more produce per dollar contribution.
On the right, you can see images of past Mutual Aid deliveries.
If you’d like to contribute to these organizations directly - you can do so by clicking the links below.
Know of another community support network & want to share that resource with us so that we can deliver free fresh produce to them? We’d love to hear about it and connect with them!
Please share with us at: farmer@mightygnomemarketgarden.com
Fresh produce shares from 2022, which we were able to provide for a diabetes prevention course at the Pigeon Community Multicultural Development Center thanks to funding from the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP).