Share Your Food, Share Your Story
Do you have a dish you like to make with an ingredient grown on Abundance Farm that is special to you? Share it, and your story of connection to it, in our Abundance Farm Community Recipe Book.
At Abundance Farm, we ground in Jewish values to connect people with food, the land, their community, and their own faith traditions. This cookbook, made in collaboration with the Hampshire County Food Policy Council, is a further expression of the connection between people, food, land, and stories that happens on Abundance Farm.
This book will feature recipes from community members like you that use ingredients grown on Abundance Farm. Each recipe will be accompanied by a story of what the dish means to the person who submitted it and how it connects them more deeply to the land, to others, and to themself.
How To Submit
There are a few ways you can submit your recipe, story, and a relevant photo.
1. Through the digital form
2. By emailing us at info@abundancefarm.org
3. In person, on the Farm, on July 23, August 8, or August 20th. A representative from Hampshire County Food Policy Council will be present during Community Harvest Hours to sit with you and record a verbal conversation. They will then transcribe and type up your submission on your behalf.
Made in collaboration with the story tellers at Hampshire County Food Policy Council
Food policy councils (FPCs) identify and propose innovative solutions to make local food systems more economically and environmentally sustainable and socially just. The Hampshire County FPC envisions a resilient community-owned regional food system where all people are empowered to live more joyful and gratifying lives through access to affordable, healthy, locally grown food of their choice.
What’s the timeline?
We will begin collecting stories in July and August of 2025. On Thursday, September 4, Abundance Farm will host a Recipe Card Potluck, where you are invited to bring you important dishes to share with others on the farm, and to share your stories aloud. We hope that this place-oriented experience of connection will inspire more story collection in the Autumn. (Read more about this event here >>)
We will continue to collect stories on an ongoing basis in the Fall of 2025.
FAQ
How does it work?
We need your stories and recipes! We grow so many things here at Abundance Farm. Submit a recipe that’s important to you that contains one of these ingredients, along with a description of its meaning to you. You can submit a recipe that your family makes at home, that’s emblematic of your culture, that has brought you into community with others, or that contains a plant you have a special connection with.
What’s the end goal?
Once you have submitted your stories, we will compile them into our community's recipe book. This book will serve as an ongoing resource for community members to gain resilience and inspiration from the web of connections between Abundance Farm and our own personal and ancestral experiences. We may even print copies in 2026 and use them to raise money for Abundance Farm and the FPC’s mission!
Who is behind this project?
In 2022, a project was started at Abundance Farm for people to share stories of important family recipes, made with ingredients grown at Abundance Farm. Now in 2025, Abundance Farm is reviving the project in collaboration with the Hampshire County Food Policy Council, who last year made their Community Story Archive, a collection of food stories sharing community wisdom for a better future.
Have a question? We’d love to answer it!
