Dear Farm Friends:
We’re writing to ask you a favor.
In the last five years since we revitalized an abandoned garden and turned it into Alemany Farm, we’ve never sought financial donations from our volunteers. After all, you already give so much. You give your time, your energy, and your enthusiasm for a sustainable food system.
But even as an all-volunteer-run organization that has no personnel costs, it does take money to keep Alemany Farm thriving — money for irrigation equipment, seeds, vegetable starts, and tools.
So we’re hoping that you can keep our farm thriving by making a tax-deductible donation to Friends of Alemany Farm to help cover our materials costs in 2011. Just visit our donation page to make a secure donation through our fiscal sponsor, the San Francisco Parks Trust.
Here’s a reminder of some of our accomplishments at Alemany Farm in 2010:
• We hosted more than two dozen field trips with elementary school students, high schoolers, college students, religious organizations, and corporate groups. These field trips exposed hundreds of people to the rewards of organic gardening.
• We grew several thousand pounds of organic fruits and vegetables. About half of the harvests went to households in the Alemany Public Housing Community via our summertime free farm stand. The other half was shared among our many amazing volunteers.
• We organized our second annual Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture that gave two dozen adult learners in-depth education about urban food production.
• We hosted 100 community workdays at which people came from across San Francisco and around the Bay to get their hands dirty to make our city more food secure.
You can help us continue this work in 2011 by clicking here and making a donation to help pay for materials costs in the season to come.
If everyone on this email list were to make a $5 donation, we could cover all of our costs for the next two years. You can barely get an organic sandwich in the Mission for $5, so we hope this isn’t too much to ask.
Please consider making a year-end donation to Friends of Alemany Farm today by visiting our donation page. Together, we can help to make San Francisco and the Bay Area more food secure.
Happy Holidays!
The Farm Team