We are involved in solving food insecurity in Summerland on a weekly basis. Our foundation is dedicated to serve food fragile both financially and medically. At our food cart daily there is a sign that asks, “Do you know someone who needs food? You can nominate someone anonymously. “ Neighbors, Parents, Parents for Summerland, the Summerland Elementary School, the Presbyterian Church and citizens have all nominated our recipients. Our non-profit program delivers healthy farm food to any Summerland citizen or family, promising that medically fragile residents and struggling low-income families are cared for and have access to organic and locally grown produce.

The most eco and sustainable way to provide food is to farm in a nearby community. We farm regeneratively to sustain and provide nutrition within Santa Barbara County. We are on a mission to create a solution of closed-looped agriculture systems for Santa Barbara County.

We support Santa Barbara County Veterans by providing healthy, organically grown food. Every week, we provided organically grown fruits and vegetables for the free Veteran’s breakfast and have food available for any Veteran.

To honor Veterans nutritional health, we committed to serving local veterans on three holidays: Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. For each of these holidays, we served an organic, farm fresh meal that we grew and harvested, prepped and cooked to hundreds of Veterans in Santa Barbara County.

In order to shift the health of our local Veterans, we believe they need access to local organic produce. We partnered with the county of Santa Barbara to create meals at the Veterans Memorial Building and now we want to to more…we are creating a quick easy way for Active Military Families and Veterans to grab organic produce that will fuel and nourish their bodies at our food cart in Summerland. Volunteer for a designated day on call.

We are advancing food security, nutritional awareness and its benefits on overall physical health and wellbeing. We are also demonstrating the potential of high quality, clean food production that is economically viable as well as regenerative and sustainable. Last month, we had over 200 students come to the farm for education. From pre-schoolers to high schools and beyond, we are training and educating our next generation to rethink in learning new farm techniques and chemical-free sustainable agriculture. From non-genetically modified wheat to thousands of other plants we demonstrate what can be accomplished without pesticides, herbicides and synthetic chemicals.

We are huge advocates of saving our precious seeds. Rather than pulling the crop before its full life cycle is over, we ensure that we are following the full cycle of nature. By allowing our crops to go to seed, this provides us with the reassurance that our farm and non GMO seeds will thrive the next season.

We are helping to build food resilience in Summerland by providing organic produce, farm products, and homemade baked goods seven days a week. We believe our Summerland farm and local farm stand to be one of the most important stakes for a town deprived of any healthy food. Someone coined us the oasis in a food desert and indeed we are.

We are making a tangible, significant difference in the lives of our customers and recipients. Food recipients benefit from the nutritional quality of food grown to the highest, cleanest standards. Recipients are freed from the anxiety and sometimes self-imposed shame that accompanies not having enough food for yourself or your family. They are also able to continue to cook. That gives them dignity. It’s not soup, or a pre-made meal. It’s real, chemical-free whole food that they connect with. We hear that they want to cook. We hear that makes them feel "normal". We hear in some cases with single parent households that it is the first time the family actually bonds-through cooking whole food instead of eating fast foods. We also make healthy school lunch packs for cancer patients' children. We made 1800 meals for county Veterans two years ago and will be giving Veterans in need gift cards directly to our farm stand this year.