Are you a woman farmer in Florida looking to expand your business by developing a food product? This free online program might be for you! The Farm2Food Accelerator empowers Florida’s women farmers (including ranchers, producers, growers, fisherwomen, beekeepers and other related agriculturalists) to become more resilient by providing practical tools and knowledge to increase income…
2020: A year of Relief, Recovery, and Resilience When food insecurity intensifies, local markets shift and shudder, online learning becomes the new way to connect, and home gardens spread like seeds in the wind – we all remember why local food community matters. The global food system staggered and revealed its weakness. But local producers,…
Spring Events! Spring is here and we’ll be at some great community events! Our website events page lists them all and we’ll be adding more. Come join us! Join us for the in-person TEDxUF labs FRIDAY April 09, 2021 / 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm @Heartwood Soundstage Read more about this super fun 3 day event Pop-Up…
2020 has been a challenging year across the globe, in our community, and here at Working Food. In March, when the full realization of the pandemic hit, Working Food sprung to action to help our community with food access, while simultaneously shifting the way our programs operated. We had the opportunity to work with new…
Huuuuge exhale! Last weekend we held our first ever online workshop for the Seed Librarian Summit! 50 people were there from all over the state ranging from no seed library yet and looking for ideas, to those that have been rocking seed libraries for many years! Thanks to Jenny Eason, Naomi Baxter, and Ben Cohen, we pulled…
We’ve been hustling and re-arranging everything with COVID 19 and are so excited to announce that our 4th Annual Southern Seed School is now online and live! We’re excited to have the opportunity and challenge to put our content online this year due to our inability to gather in person. It’s our first time facilitating…
Another successful Drive Through Farmers Market. 417 orders of fresh local farm products were picked up this week with very little hiccups! We are so grateful to be a positive light in these uncertain and trying times. Please visit our website for details about how this works, a list of participating farms, and a…
Support your local farmers and your health! Working Food is helping to facilitate safe access to local products from our farms. We hope to offer for this as an alternative to farmer’s markets that have closed for the next few weeks and will make sure we keep the safety of the community first and be…
It’s that time of year again! We have a greenhouse full of lovely plants, waiting for their forever homes in your garden! Thanks to our helpers at Grow Hub, we have a great collection of varieties. Plants are now on sale at Grow Hub! *Still in business. Open air, safe social distancing** Shop regular nursery…
Looking back on our Pop-Up Pumpkin Tasting, we already miss it so much! On October 19th, sampling out delicious pumpkin recipes from our local entrepreneurs and seeing the community come together made for an incredible day. We all came together to celebrate the delicious local varieties we have here and see how versatile they could…