Visit the Food Justice Summit website to read more about Ithaca Community Harvest

Challenge yourself to be a farmer for an hour or afternoon and join a growing movement of farmers and community members working cooperatively to grow healthy farms and families!

CHALLENGE #1 Spend a beautiful autumn day harvesting food on a local farm. The fruits of your labor will provide youth with fresh snacks at school and enable low-income families to cook healthy meals. Invite family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues to join you in harvesting, or ask them to join you by making a monetary pledge in support of your challenge.

The money you raise will help Ithaca Community Harvest provide farm fresh food to schools, community centers, and homes in Ithaca who do not have access to healthy, organic produce.

Check out two harvester’s blogs to get an idea for how to launch your campaign:
Bret
Emma

- Sunday, October 23rd at Stick and Stone Farm, Ithaca
Harvest root vegetables with farmers Lucy and Chaw and a mob of community members participating in Ithaca’s Crop Mob! RSVP to ithacacropmob@gmail.com.

- Saturday, October 29th 12pm-4pm at The Good Life Farm, Interlaken
Pick peppers and lend a hand at the stunningly beautiful Good Life farm that uses permaculture design and is powered mostly by work horses. RSVP to HealthyFoodForAll.Ithaca@gmail.com.

- Saturday, October 29th 10am-4pm at The Youth Farm, Danby
Pitch-in at Ithaca’s only youth-run farm and help harvest potatoes, carrots, radishes, collards, kale, pumpkins and more! RSVP to HealthyFoodForAll.Ithaca@gmail.com.

- November 20th at Red Tail Farm, Jacksonville
Get dirty with farmers Brent and Teresa to dig those roots at of the ground and harvest carrots, beets, celeriac and more! RSVP to HealthyFoodForAll.Ithaca@gmail.com.

- Talk to your farmer friend and organize your own harvesting trip today!

Launch a Harvest Challenge!

Already know how?

Meet Greta, she is excited to show you how to harvest carrots at her farm!

Fall is here, and it’s time to dig roots! All summer long beet and carrot plants have been channeling nutrients down their leaves, sending tiny roots into the soil, and collecting energy in their orange and red sweet and crisp roots.

Come help Greta dig and pull the roots which will be stored and dolled out over the winter for kids to enjoy at BJM Elementary School, winter CSA members, local restaurants and grocery stores. You might even toss one in your cart at Greenstar later this year!

Where: Stick and Stone Farm, 1605 Trumansburg Rd., Ithaca (also known as Buffalo St., Cliff St., Rt. 96n) – 4.5 miles from downtown Ithaca
When: Sunday October 23nd, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., followed by lunch
Who: you, your friends and family, your kids, but not your dog
What to bring: place setting: plate, bowl, spoon/fork; dress for the weather, and for mud; full water bottle.
Please RSVP to ithacacropmob@gmail.com (so we know how much lunch to make)
Register at Peaks Over Poverty to raise pledges for every pound you pick to support projects providing local organic veggies to kids in school.