Volunteer Farm in Woodstock, VA, which grows food on 15 of 165 available acres, opened in 2004 as a place to raise produce for the hungry in the state’s Blue Ridge Mountains region. The farm’s output goes to the Blue Ridge Food Bank, an agency that distributes food to hungry families in 25 counties and nine cities in the Shenandoah Valley and parts of Central Virginia. Last year the Volunteer Farm produced 56,000 pounds of vegetables.
So far this year, the farm has harvested 2 tons of food. But The farm is struggling to find people to help collect its plentiful harvest this year, and it hopes that most of the more than 1,000 volunteers listed on its rolls will return this summer to help with an unusually large harvest.
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