Sharing the Harvest Community Farm

Sharing the Harvest Community Farm Sharing the Harvest Community Farm is a non-profit hunger-relief farm located at the Dartmouth YMCA. The generosity of others is at the core of our existence.

Sharing the Harvest is a nonprofit, volunteer-driven community farm that was established in 2006 as a grassroots response to hunger at the local level. The farm’s mission is to alleviate hunger, promote volunteerism, and provide agricultural education on the south coast of Massachusetts. Sharing the Harvest is embarking on its 14th season growing food for donation to those in need. Both New Bedfor

d and Fall River are among the ten poorest municipalities in Massachusetts, with some of the highest concentrations of hunger in the state. In these cities, one in three children lives in poverty, and in Bristol County, one in five children is food insecure. We rely on volunteers to fulfill our mission to alleviate hunger. Since 2006, volunteers have contributed 64,000 hours of service in 25,000 visits to the farm! This has made it possible for us to donate 547,000 pounds of produce to those in need. It is only through the support of thousands of volunteers as well as public and private donations that we are able to serve our community. Thank you!

On our final day of the 2025 volunteer season at STH Community Farm, a fantastic group of 25 employees from DePuy Synthe...
10/30/2025

On our final day of the 2025 volunteer season at STH Community Farm, a fantastic group of 25 employees from DePuy Synthes, Raynham, along with 9 volunteers from the local community and M.O.L.I.F.E., took part in planting garlic. This task included separating garlic bulbs into individual cloves, as well as planting the garlic cloves into their beds in B Field. The garlic cloves will remain underground all winter under straw mulch, and next spring, we’ll see them sprout! The bulbs will be ready to harvest by late July.

This morning, we…

🧄 Planted 9 beds of garlic (in much less than two hours - impressive work!)
🍓 Weeded and pruned the strawberry plants
🫑 Pulled the expired pepper plants and began removing landscape fabric

What a morning of hard work and dedication to these tasks! Thank you all for enthusiastically braving the windy and overcast morning to help us with this very important, and successful, garlic planting. We appreciate you all joining us for a second time this growing season!

Yesterday, employees from BlueCross BlueShield Massachusetts visited STH Farm and worked with us in the fields and green...
09/26/2025

Yesterday, employees from BlueCross BlueShield Massachusetts visited STH Farm and worked with us in the fields and greenhouse during their annual Service Day. Over the course of the full work day, this team…

🎃 Washed and stacked butternut squash in the greenhouse
🪱 Shoveled pathways to build 3 sturdy raised beds in the hoophouse
🧑‍🌾 Harvested and bunched beets
🧄 Sorted large and small garlic bulbs
🧼 Cleaned the Dartmouth YMCA kitchen

With the help of this team and their many hands and dedicated work ethic, the greenhouse, field hoophouse, and kitchen were drastically different than when they first set foot on the farm. The butternut squash team worked relentlessly to see their task through and help every squash appear spotless. The shoveling team dug pathways while the rain poured outside the hoophouse, raindrops sliding down the plastic roof. We were grateful to the beet harvesting team for helping us finish off our final crop left to harvest this week - which was all distributed on Thursday evening through United Way’s Mobile Market. Thank you to this spectacular team for their drive and willingness to lend a hand at STH Farm during the annual Day of Service event.

Today, a small and very mighty team of 3 employees from BlueWave Energy joined us. This team braved the rainy weather to...
09/24/2025

Today, a small and very mighty team of 3 employees from BlueWave Energy joined us. This team braved the rainy weather to help wash Napa Cabbage, as well as wash and stack butternut squash in the greenhouse.🥬 We so appreciate your time and hard work today with these tasks! 🌊

Today, we were so fortunate to have employees from The Black Whale join us in the fields. This wonderful group helped ha...
09/24/2025

Today, we were so fortunate to have employees from The Black Whale join us in the fields. This wonderful group helped harvest and bunch kale in the fields, as well as wash all the lettuce heads. Thank you all for your teamwork, laughter, and care you put into these tasks! We had a blast working with you.🐋

Today was the annual United Way Day of Caring! Employees from organizations such as Acushnet Company, Davico Inc., and M...
09/12/2025

Today was the annual United Way Day of Caring! Employees from organizations such as Acushnet Company, Davico Inc., and Meeting Street volunteered at the farm for a full day, completing a wide range of service projects such as…

🧑‍🌾 Planting 3 beds of beets

🍠 Harvesting sweet potatoes

🌱 Weeding 2 beds of lettuce

🥕 Weeding one bed of carrots

🪱 Digging pathways in our no-till field to create permanent beds

🧼 Washing bins

🌻🌼 Collecting calendula and sunflower seeds to save for field trips next year!

What a filled day! We accomplished so many tasks with you all, and the farm is truly a changed (and less weedy!) place than when you first entered the fields this morning. We so enjoyed completing each task with you, and thanks for all your hard work during this fantastic Day of Caring!

On Wednesday afternoon, we had a blast with a group of 27 employees from Imtra Corporation. With the strong teamwork and...
09/12/2025

On Wednesday afternoon, we had a blast with a group of 27 employees from Imtra Corporation. With the strong teamwork and commitment of this team, we…

🍅 Pulled up all tomato plants, trellising poles, and landscape fabric from 6 beds. We also gleaned all the remaining cherry and green tomatoes.

🌱 Hand weeded 4 beds of beets, as well as scuffle hoed several beds of fall crops.

🫘 Gleaned and pulled up all plants from the wax bean bed.

🎃 At the wash station, group members washed bins, scrubbed butternut squash and summer squash, and packaged up wax beans.

This team generously gave 3 hours of their time, and we sure did accomplish so much with their enthusiasm and hard work. It was so fun to take part in these important fall cleanup projects alongside you!

Today, numerous UMass Dartmouth sports teams, students, faculty, staff, and alumni joined us in the STH Community Farm f...
09/08/2025

Today, numerous UMass Dartmouth sports teams, students, faculty, staff, and alumni joined us in the STH Community Farm fields for the annual 9/11 Service & Remembrance Day. This important day of service invites us to remember the lives of those lost in 9/11, and to honor the families and survivors who inspired this nationally-recognized Day of Service.

Today, UMass Dartmouth helped with our major butternut squash harvest. In just a few hours, they…

✂️ Clipped all butternut squash vines

🎃 Piled butternut squash, acorn squash, and Long Island Cheese pumpkins into crates or baskets spread throughout the field

💪 Unpacked and stacked all the butternut squash into the greenhouse to cure

🚜 Removed black plastic and drip tape from the butternut squash fields

To all our volunteer leaders, thank you for your support and leadership. This major service day ran so smoothly from start to finish with your group guidance. To all the athletes, students, staff, faculty, and alumni that took time out of their Sunday to take part in this service day and brave the rain and mud - thank you all! We expect to share with the community approximately 10,000 pounds of butternut squash this year. We truly couldn’t have accomplished this without you!

Yesterday morning, a spectacular team of employees from Citizens’ Bank worked with us in the field. This team…🍅 Harveste...
09/05/2025

Yesterday morning, a spectacular team of employees from Citizens’ Bank worked with us in the field. This team…

🍅 Harvested cherry tomatoes and green slicing tomatoes
🌾 Moved butternut squash vines out of the tall grasses, in preparation for their upcoming harvest

These tasks were challenging to say the least! The tomato plants were pulled and carried down the 200-foot beds into piles for the tractor to take away, and the volunteers were able to clear 2 beds in less than an hour. They also harvested over 72 pounds of green tomatoes. Great work, and thank you all for your time, enthusiasm, and hard work yesterday!

On Wednesday afternoon, we were fortunate to work alongside employees from Claremont Group. With a team of over 30, we…🧄...
08/22/2025

On Wednesday afternoon, we were fortunate to work alongside employees from Claremont Group. With a team of over 30, we…

🧄 Cut all our hanging garlic
🧅 Cutting onions in the greenhouse
🌱 Seeded beets
🍅 Harvested slicing and cherry tomatoes
🌿 Weeded beds in B field

It was wonderful to have so many helping hands to accomplish all these tasks before the rain picked up. We appreciate you giving your time and energy to these essential August tasks at our farm!

This afternoon, six of employees from CohnReznick Advisory LLC joined us in the farm fields for an afternoon of….🌱 Plant...
08/07/2025

This afternoon, six of employees from CohnReznick Advisory LLC joined us in the farm fields for an afternoon of….

🌱 Planting summer squash plants
🚚 Helping load up the United Way truck with fresh produce and eggs

Thank you so much for the egg donation! 🥚 We were thrilled to share them at this weeks’ Tuesday and Thursday United Way Mobile Markets in Wareham and New Bedford.

Thank you to all our hardworking volunteers for making this Thursday harvest day such a success! We had a blast harvesting peppers and tomatoes, planting summer squash late in the day, and sorting tomatoes/washing carrots all day long with you all. 🌞

On Friday, a fantastic group of 15 interns from Blount Fine Foods visited STH Farm. This larger group split up to comple...
08/04/2025

On Friday, a fantastic group of 15 interns from Blount Fine Foods visited STH Farm. This larger group split up to complete several different tasks, including:

🥔 Harvesting 3 full baskets of potatoes
🌱 Planting scallions and lettuce seedlings
🥬 Seeding kale and collard greens in the greenhouse for fall successions
🧼 Washing over 100 bins
🌱Thinning lettuce seedlings to 1 plant/cell
🌿 Weeding the entire greenhouse floor

In just two hours, we checked all these tasks off our to-do list. We couldn’t be more grateful that Blount interns joined us, bringing their enthusiasm and hard work. Thank you all so much!

We had a blast yesterday morning with an awesome group of employees from Hague, Sahady & Co., P.C. They helped with a ma...
08/01/2025

We had a blast yesterday morning with an awesome group of employees from Hague, Sahady & Co., P.C. They helped with a major harvest day, including:

🍅 Harvesting cherry tomatoes and slicing tomatoes
💛 Harvesting wax beans
🍆 Harvesting our first official round of eggplants for distribution!
🥔 Harvesting potatoes

We were thrilled to have you all join us in the fiends again this year. Even with the high temperatures and sunny skies above us while we worked, this crew stayed committed from start to finish of their time with us. It’s always such a pleasure to work with this group, so thanks for your time! 🌞

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276 Gulf Road
Dartmouth, MA
02748

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Monday 9am - 12pm
2pm - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 12pm
2pm - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 12pm
2pm - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 12pm

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