Membership

Join the PFP as a Supporting Member and help us grow toward our goal of good food for all!

Our vision of a just and sustainable food system in the Mid-Hudson Valley relies on the support of our members!  Your tax-deductible membership contribution and additional pledges of support enable us to:

• Make 25% of the food we harvest available to low income members of our community through Food Share, including sponsored CSA shares, food donations and the Poughkeepsie Main Street Farmers’ Market, which we also manage. A sponsored share participant recently told us: I appreciated that [a sponsored share] was affordable for me and my family. I thought it was just wonderful – it really was. And it was a really nice experience to take the kids with me and have them pick out the vegetables. It is difficult to get to the supermarket, and the food is expensive, so we were just getting canned green beans. For the kids it’s important for them to be able to eat healthy.
• Train future farmers, provide youth from urban areas with hands-on farming and cooking experiences, produce and distribute regionally-adapted and open-pollinated seeds while disseminating knowledge about seed saving through City Seeds. One of the participants wrote: [This program] has provided me with a wonderful opportunity to have real farming experience while being in close proximity to a complex and exciting city. While farming alone is important, being in contact with the people who benefit from the food, help us grow it, come for a visit, etc., is even more valuable. [This program] is diverse that makes days on the farm engaging and meaningful whether it be working with Green Teens, tending to the seed garden, cooking with teens, discussing food access or planting broccoli. Not many farms give such a well-rounded experience!
• Offer our working farm as a resource for hands-on learning for a wide diversity of individuals and groups through Community Education farm tours, youth education programming and workshops. One of the groups that visited this year wrote: Thank you all so very much for organizing such wonderful farm visits for the children…The programs you created were fun and informative, and the food was delicious! The children named the trips to the farm as their favorite experiences of the summer.

In addition to making these programs possible, as a member of PFP you will:

• Receive our seasonal newsletter and e-mails about PFP events and other local food and farming topics
• Receive member discounts at the PFP booth at the City of Poughkeepsie Farmers’ Market and at PFP events
• Become eligible to be a CSA shareholder, space permitting*

To become a PFP member, please complete a membership form today and send it to: PFP, P.O. Box 3143, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603.

For more information on PFP membership, please see our member handbook.

*If you are also interested in becoming a CSA shareholder, click here for more information.