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Living Hope Farm

A 501(c)(3) nonprofit working farm at 461 Indian Creek Road in Harleysville, PA — Montgomery County, Schuylkill Valley region. Certified Naturally Grown (CNG, a peer-reviewed alternative to USDA organic). Runs a 260+ member CSA (24-week summer season + November-February Winter CSA) with choose-your-own harvest boxes. Operates at the Lansdale Farmers Market every Saturday May-September and runs an indoor public market May-February. Active food-justice arm: weekly fresh produce donations to 23 families in the Souderton Area School District, The Bridge of Hope, regional cancer families, and food pantries across Montgomery and Bucks Counties.

What they do

Living Hope Farm is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit [[farm|working farm]] at 461 Indian Creek Road in Harleysville, PA — Montgomery County, in the [[schuylkill-valley|Schuylkill Valley]]. Certified Naturally Grown (CNG, a peer-reviewed alternative-organic certification used by small-scale operators who can’t afford full USDA Organic certification but meet equivalent standards).

Production: vegetables across the seasons, grown from non-GMO seeds using environmentally-friendly methods. Hand-picked from the fields.

Retail surfaces:

  • CSA — 260+ members, 24-week summer season with choose-your-own harvest boxes online; CSA members pick up on-farm weekly
  • Winter CSA — November through February
  • Lansdale [[farmers-market|Farmers Market]] — every Saturday May–September
  • Indoor [[farmers-market|public market]] at the farm — May through February

Active food-justice arm:

  • Weekly fresh-produce donations to 23 families in the Souderton Area School District
  • Donations to The Bridge of Hope (housing-and-mentorship nonprofit)
  • Weekly produce to regional cancer families
  • Ongoing donations to food pantries and senior centers across Montgomery and Bucks Counties

Why it’s listed

The nonprofit + Certified Naturally Grown + 260-member CSA + active food-justice donation arm makes this an exemplary substrate-tier operation. Living Hope is doing four kinds of work the conventional food economy doesn’t do at all: peer-certified sustainable production, community-anchored direct retail, year-round seasonal extension, and free food access for food-insecure households in the same county.

Bioregional fit

Harleysville, Montgomery County PA — [[schuylkill-valley]] bioregion, the Schuylkill River watershed of [[delaware-valley|greater Philadelphia]].

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Instance of: [[vegetable-farm]] · [[community-supported-agriculture]]
  • Shares approach with: [[regenerative-agriculture]] · [[food-sovereignty]]
  • Member of: [[farm]]
  • Contained by: [[schuylkill-valley]]

Sources

Related concepts: [[farm]] · [[community-supported-agriculture]].

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[schuylkill-valley]] in [[directory|the directory]].

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