Pictured Left to Right: Long Beach Farms Produce Box, Rose Park Resident Janna Vandenberg delivering home cooked meals to Lutheran Towers Resident Mike for distribution, & penne pasta & grilled zucchini made by Janna Vandenberg & Barry Rothstein.
The mission of Rose Park Neighborhood is to increase the quality of life in our neighborhood. We currently assist 400 neighbors with a community food pantry with the nonprofit organization Help Me, Help You. Our fantastic volunteers prepare meals to seniors in affordable housing, and weekly farm boxes are distributed from Long Beach Farms, a Community Supported Agriculture system.
That is why the Rose Park Neighborhood Association is hoping to secure a farm space of our own to ensure neighbors have access to fresh produce and food distribution in our very own neighborhood. Our goal is to bring urban farming to a neglected space while feeding our neighbors.
We know hunger existed in our neighborhood before the impact of COVID-19 and the need has become even more urgent. We have identified congregate living and seniors in HUD buildings that were subsisting on little food – we have made many connections and with produce from the farm we can offer MORE to MORE of our neighbors – when they need it. The lasting impact is to know that there is always food available.
Rose Park Newsletters are delivered with LB Farms Produce Boxes every Sunday in the Parking Lot of Revive Church(Photo Courtesy of Brooke Baker)
In this April 2020 Issue: Letter from Councilwoman Jeannine Pearce, Housing & History in Rose Park, Art Wellness & Programming, Volunteer System with Lutheran Towers, & Cut Out & Create Your Fish! Read the Rose Park Neighborhood Newsletter HERE
Just a reminder that Long Beach Farms will deliver fresh produce to the Revive Church parking lot for Rose Park residents to pick up on Sundays from 3pm to 5pm. Subscribe for a small farm box for $26.99. Order your farm box HERE.
