Your Donation Goes Directly to Supporting Local Food Dignity Health

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100% of your contributions will go toward underwriting food donations.

Across the county, communities are rallying to to support food dignity. In the face of government funding reductions, people from Iowa, Arizona, New Jersey, Delware and more are stepping in to make sure farms are able to donate their produce to school children and vulnerable populations served by food banks.

If you're visiting this page, there's a good chance that you value access to fresh, healthy produce to nourish your family and friends. That's an important reason why we founded and run Orkestai. We couldn't imagine going for very long without such vegetables. And as a 501(c)3 non-profit community-based organization, we recognize that modern life does not often offer feasible paths toward good food and health for so many. As a farm, it is part of our mission to share our bountiful harvest as inclusively as possible. Since 2020, we're blessed to partner with NOSH, an organization founded at the start of Covid-19 to address food insecurity and injustice. We’ve donated nearly $20,000 worth of produce to them and our produce was one of their most valued donations. For reasons of perishability and cost, quality donated produce is hard to come by. NOSH has conducted surveys revealing their target population wants fresh produce more than anything else. With food prices cutting into budgets like never before, there has never been a better time to make an impact in your neighbors’s lives.

For those of you who have been to Orkestai Farm or similar farms, perhaps you have a sense of all the time and effort it takes to grow organic, artisanal vegetables and you've also reaped the benefits of preparing, sharing and eating them. Perhaps you've gleaned how we further our mission of ecology, great food and inclusive community and that every dollar Orkestai collects goes toward improving what we do. And so we're asking you to help us to help NOSH serve our neighbors who deserve the dignity of health and good food as much as we do.

11 years ago we began Orkestai Farm with little more than hope and a vision. Our community is the reason Orkestai Farm is thriving after all this time. We know how valuable your time and money are very appreciative of your generosity for all these years. If you’ve appreciated our produce or simply appreciate the importance of a healthy diet, food justice, local economy, environment and community restoration, please consider donating. Every dollar collected in this campaign will go directly toward food donations. If you are an individual or part of an institution that wants to dollar match or contribute in another way to help us donate even more, please contact us.

ORKESTAI FARM is a 501(c)(3) non-profit located in Oyster Bay, NY.

Orkestai Farm is a unique place where people with autism and other developmental (dis)abilities come to grow food for their community.

Orkestai Farm is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization. Your donation may be tax deductible as permitted by law.

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Your donation will help us do our part to shore up our local food systems and communities.

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