The Dartmouth YMCA Sharing the Harvest Community farm team exceeded their $15,000 goal for Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger Sunday, May 4, raising over $23,000 for food insecurity initiatives. 

Soon to wrap up its seventh year fundraising, 60% of the donations go directly to the farm to use toward its mission to provide locally grown, healthy produce in partnership with the United Way Hunger Commission. The remaining 40% will go to Project Bread to combat food insecurity in the state.

The money raised during previous Walks for Hunger has helped Sharing the Harvest Community Farm purchase annual supplies, cover its tractor repair and maintenance costs, as well as other expenses related to managing a small vegetable production farm.

About 75 community members joined the farm in completing a 3-mile loop around Padanaram in the nice weather Sunday morning in conjunction with the larger walk held in Boston.

The Project Bread Walk is one of the oldest in the country, started in 1969 to bring awareness of hunger in our state. Project Bread allows anti-hunger organizations in the commonwealth to team up and organize their own local walk

There is still time to make a donation to the team:

https://give.projectbread.org/team/640788

Those interested in volunteering at the farm should contact Ashley Brister, farm director at the Dartmouth YMCA.