Farm to Fight Hunger, a 2-acre agricultural nonprofit in Healdsburg, CA, donates 100% of everything it grows to fight food insecurity in Sonoma County. They grow culturally-relevant varieties of vegetables, including tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, squash, corn, onions, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, nopales, and Mexican and South American herbs. Having converted an acre of vineyard to vegetable production, they received a $4,755 grant to plant a 300-foot-long hedgerow of native, drought-tolerant plants, fruit, and nut trees to create a habitat for pollinators and other beneficial insects.
This fall, Farm to Fight Hunger installed their 300-foot-long hedgerow of native, drought-tolerant plants, fruit, and nut trees at the back of a 1-acre vegetable production field. They told us that βin addition to having something in bloom and providing pollen ten months out of the year, the row will also supply fruit for donation into the community to those in need of healthy food.β As the plants get established, theyβll water this row for a few years.
