Farm Fresh Food for SFPS Adelante Families
A big part of our mission at Reunity Resources is to provide equitable access to healthy, local food. As we emerge from this year+ of dramatic change and loss, many issues that were loud and visible last year have receded in view, but economic inequities and food insecurity are as present as ever, even if they are no longer headlines.
Reunity Resources works to fulfill our food access mission in multiple ways, one of which is working with SFPS Adelante, an amazing organization providing support from homework to housing for students in Santa Fe Public Schools. Food support is where we can help.
As a school-calendar based organization, SFPS Adelante closes for the month of July. In an effort to help bridge the food access gap for their clients during for that month and beyond, Adelante thought $100 Farm Cards would be an excellent way to connect their clients to farm fresh food and the accompanying resources we offer such as Double Up Food Bucks, the Community Fridge, cooking classes/nutrition education from the Sprouted Kitchen, and the farm’s family-friendly setting.
Your mutual aid food support for families served by Adelante means direct access to fresh, healthy food. It allows families to get WHAT they want, WHEN they want it. And it’s grown right in the neighborhood, promoting healthy families and a healthy food system. Join us in donating $100 Farm Cards to fifty families by making your contribution below.
Reunity Resources works to fulfill our food access mission in multiple ways, one of which is working with SFPS Adelante, an amazing organization providing support from homework to housing for students in Santa Fe Public Schools. Food support is where we can help.
As a school-calendar based organization, SFPS Adelante closes for the month of July. In an effort to help bridge the food access gap for their clients during for that month and beyond, Adelante thought $100 Farm Cards would be an excellent way to connect their clients to farm fresh food and the accompanying resources we offer such as Double Up Food Bucks, the Community Fridge, cooking classes/nutrition education from the Sprouted Kitchen, and the farm’s family-friendly setting.
Your mutual aid food support for families served by Adelante means direct access to fresh, healthy food. It allows families to get WHAT they want, WHEN they want it. And it’s grown right in the neighborhood, promoting healthy families and a healthy food system. Join us in donating $100 Farm Cards to fifty families by making your contribution below.
The importance of local food systems has become more apparent than ever in the past year, and your support increases our capacity to steward the land and water in such a way that it can feed generations to come, share farm fresh food widely to those in need, to educate about and advocate for regenerative, local food systems, and to provide a nourishing, community gathering place. From a sustaining donation to our Where It's Needed Most campaign to helping launch a community fridge, we triple match every donation with energy, creativity and pluck to yield meaningful impact. Learn more about our current campaigns at the Donate button above.
Pandemic Hunger Responses
Reunity Resources deepened our food donation commitment in 2020 in the face of the heightened community need. Early in the season, we pivoted to provide fresh food to restaurants (Cafecito and the YouthWorks Culinary Program) to be made into healthy, frozen meals featuring farm fresh vegetables. Over 12,000 meals were delivered by Communities in Schools to families identified as unable to access other food support. We worked with the organizations providing fresh food distributions listed below, pausing our downtown market booth for the year to ensure volumes of farm fresh food were directed to those in need. We respect the work of each of these organizations adjusting to meet the needs of the communities they serve during this multi-layered crises and appreciate the efforts they are making to fill the gaps in the food system. All are serving families and individuals that cannot access the twice weekly distributions from the Food Depot, and many who are not eligible for unemployment benefits and/or government food aid.
Communities in Schools
Santa Fe Indian Center
Many Mothers
San Ildefonso Pueblo
Breath of my Heart Birth Place
YouthWorks
Photo Credit: Tira Howard
With deepest gratitude to you all for your support of these farm fresh food donation programs as we work together toward equitable food systems. We would also like to thank the Santa Fe Community Foundation Covid-19 Response Fund, the New Mexico Farmers' Marketing Association and AllTogether NM, as with their additional emergency relief support grants, we have been able to purchase produce from other farmers whose sales outlets have suffered, thus supporting both our local food producers and those in need of fresh healthy food. This is a win-win for our communities. Thank you!
Finally, with the fragility of the food system revealed in the initial shutdown, our long term advocacy for a more resilient food system became quick action. More farmers growing more food locally is the best way for our food system to become more stable. As such, we leaned into partnerships with YouthWorks, Alas de Agua and the Mother Nature Center to begin two new farms on fallow and desertified county land. Many thanks to Santa Fe County for their critical role. Together, we are growing healthy soil, healthy vegetables and healthy humans, and addressing deeper roots of food system inequities.
We greatly appreciate your support!
Reunity Resources is a 501(c)3 not for profit organization and your donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.
With deepest gratitude to you all for your support of these farm fresh food donation programs as we work together toward equitable food systems. We would also like to thank the Santa Fe Community Foundation Covid-19 Response Fund, the New Mexico Farmers' Marketing Association and AllTogether NM, as with their additional emergency relief support grants, we have been able to purchase produce from other farmers whose sales outlets have suffered, thus supporting both our local food producers and those in need of fresh healthy food. This is a win-win for our communities. Thank you!
Finally, with the fragility of the food system revealed in the initial shutdown, our long term advocacy for a more resilient food system became quick action. More farmers growing more food locally is the best way for our food system to become more stable. As such, we leaned into partnerships with YouthWorks, Alas de Agua and the Mother Nature Center to begin two new farms on fallow and desertified county land. Many thanks to Santa Fe County for their critical role. Together, we are growing healthy soil, healthy vegetables and healthy humans, and addressing deeper roots of food system inequities.
We greatly appreciate your support!
Reunity Resources is a 501(c)3 not for profit organization and your donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.