We welcome you to join our community of supporters in raising $150,000 for our End of Year campaign between Nov. 1st - March 2025.
With building out the beautiful farm, establishing partnerships with distributors and families of those incarcerated, we are ready to scale our freedom dream so we can move into the future secured with sustainable support from folks like you!
What is Sweet Freedom Farm?
We are Black Grown. Our team of Black farmers have built a strong connection to the land and the work of feeding families and organizing to send food inside to those incarcerated in NYS.
We are deeply rooted - we’ve been doing this work for a long time. Starting in 2010 with the Freedom Food Alliance and in 2012 with the Victory Bus Project, we have organized to reach communities impacted by mass incarceration and deliver fresh foods while being grounded in our abolitionist politic in seeing a world with more farms and no prisons
We are nurturing the next generation - We are invested in our farmer’s futures, with providing hands-on training and support access to a broad range of professional development opportunities. One goal is to equip our farmers with a well-rounded farm education, so they are empowered to utilize this knowledge in their future agricultural goals.
We are dedicated to Black liberation. In a long tradition of abolitionists, we are building places where Black people can thrive on and with the land. With our Maple and Sorghum Syrup bottles, we work in the lineage of our ancestors who used these alternatives to defy the sugar industry's ties to slave labor.
Here’s what your support will go towards:
$100,000, buys us a cultivating tractor and other necessary implements to double our production and make our work more efficient.
$50,000 buys us a distribution van! - Currently, we rely on borrowed vans and the generosity of our community partners (Long Table Harvest, Columbia County Sanctuary Movement and Rolling Grocer).
$25,000 buys us a walk-in cooler - a new cold storage can increase our capacity to receive, store, and ship local food from several food distribution projects across the Northeast.
$20,000 funds two weeks of programs and operations.
$10,000 raises our new greenhouse, meaning we can start more seeds, give away more seedlings, cure more storage vegetables, and experiment with more crops.
$5000 secures one week of livable wages for our all-Black farm staff.
You can donate to our campaign by clicking 'Give' above.
Checks can be written out to our fiscal sponsor with Sweet Freedom Farm in the memo:
The WESPAC Foundation Inc
77 Tarrytown Road Suite 2W
White Plains, NY 10607
Thank you, from the Sweeties!