Volunteer Farm
in Woodstock, VA, which grows food on 15 of 165 available acres, opened
in 2004 as a place to raise produce for the hungry in the state’s Blue
Ridge Mountains region. The farm’s output goes to the Blue Ridge Food
Bank, an agency that distributes food to hungry families in 25 counties
and nine cities in the Shenandoah Valley and parts of Central Virginia.
Last year the Volunteer Farm produced 56,000 pounds of vegetables.

So far this year, the farm has harvested 2 tons of food. But The
farm is struggling to find people to help collect its plentiful harvest
this year, and it hopes that most of the more than 1,000 volunteers
listed on its rolls will return this summer to help with an unusually
large harvest.

Read (Harrisonburg Daily News Record)