Willing Hands has partnerships with many kinds of organizations, not just food pantries and food shelves. The Center for Safer Communities in Claremont is one example. Safer Communities offers support and crisis services to survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, and stalking. How does fresh food play a role in their mission? Two words: dignity […]
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Across River Road from the intersection with Church St in Norwich, is a long narrow farm field with an equally long history of organic farming. 40 years ago, the field, now owned by the town and under a conservation easement by the Upper Valley Land Trust, was part Jake and Liz Guest’s Killdeer Farm. Today,
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For more than a decade, Willing Hands has been delivering fresh produce from local farms to West Fairlee on Tuesday mornings. And for most of that time, Pamela Mainville has been leading the effort to connect local families in need with the available resources of the Upper Valley. A retired chef from the Mountain School
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NORWICH, VT — Willing Hands has been awarded a $20,470 grant through the Vermont Farm to School Grant Program to increase access to fresh, locally grown food for children attending 12 early childhood education (ECE) programs in Orange and Windsor counties. The funding will enable Willing Hands to purchase Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares from
Bob started volunteering with the Thetford Food Shelf in 2018. “It’s something I can do to help my community,” he says. “It doesn’t take any special skills, really, just the commitment to showing up.” The town hall-based service began in 1984 as the emergency food shelf. In 2004, it had outgrown the two shelves upstairs
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