Newsletters

2024 News

April 2024

The True Cost of Food - local strategies to address huge food systems challenges.

Read our April newsletter here.

March 2024

CFS is growing - our team, our programs, our impact.

Read our March newsletter here.

January 2024

CFS is hiring - We are looking forward to building our team!

Read our January newsletter here.

2023 News

December 2023

Our year in review… and news about our SNAP-Ed/Community Schools project to bring local veggies into the classroom.

Read our December newsletter here.

November 2023

With all the good fresh produce still available for harvest on the farms and the on-going high need for nutritious holiday meals, we launched a “fresh veggie drive” to enable donors to directly purchase fresh farm veggies which we delivered to local food assistance providers to give to families before the holidays.

Read our Veggie Drive newsletter here.

October 2023

Celebrating three years of Community FarmShare at our annual gathering of Gratitude

Read our Nov. newsletter here.

April 2023

Lots of news this Spring - we started a farm aggregation hub!

Read our April newsletter here.

August 2023

We’ve been busy. Summer is going by fast, and Community FarmShare is growing.

Read our August newsletter here.

2022 News

September 2022

Learn about the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health

Read our September newsletter here.

August 2022

Challenging choices and climate change effects on agriculture

Read our August newsletter here.

June 2022

Emily Day’s goal to hike all 48 NH mountains above 4,000ft to raise awareness for healthy local food, farms, and community,

The current state of food insecurity in the DMV area.

Read our June 2022 newsletter here.

May 2022

County funding for our Farm to School Family program, starting all of our CSA weekly deliveries, and events at the farms.

Read our May newsletter here.

April 2022

About our opportunity to expand our farm to school family program within the county FY23 budget.

Read our April newsletter here.

March 2022

About Community FarmShare’s two new Board members and our vision and strategy for 2022.

Read our March 2022 newsletter here.

February 2022

About Community FarmShare’s plans for the year, new programs supporting Food Is Medicine, and a look at a farmer’s work in the winter.

Read more February news here.

November 2022

Gratitude for all of our support from the community this year

Read our November newsletter here.

December 2022

Community FarmShare is hiring! We are looking for passionate team members to join our work

Read our December newsletter here.

2021 News

December 2021

Reflections on our first year and thoughts for the next

Read our December newsletter here.

November 2021

About Community FarmShare’s plans for our Nov. 20th community event

Gathering of Gratitude Program Details

October 2021

About our Gratitude Gathering and fundraiser event for Community FarmShare - Nov. 20 - and lots more!

Read more October news here.

September 2021

About our new program to support newly arriving refugees and asylum seekers with winter CSA shares.

Special Afghan Support project; and we received nonprofit status!

August 2021

About program expansion, getting on social media, serving our clients and fall planting

Program Expansion

July 2021

About how one of our CSA share receivers wanted to give back to the farm that’s been growing her food…

Out on the farms

June 2021

About how our community is growing, thanks to wonderful volunteers and community partnerships

Volunteers and partnerships

May 2021

About Spring farm tours - One Acre Farm invites you to visit their beautiful farm in Dickerson.

One Acre Farm - spring farm tour

April 2021

About our first CSA shares - grown and delivered to families.

The first shares are delivered

March 2021

About the beginning of the growing season and how the farmers are preparing for their CSA season…

Excitement is growing on the farms

February 2021

About people coming together for a common purpose….

“Some Good News“, February Newsletter