“Our mission is to build a stronger food system for our town - one that nurtures personal health, community health, and the health of our planet. We work to improve access to nutrition for all. “
Our Vision — To revitalize our local food system by cultivating an informed and engaged food community.
Farming Falmouth is a nonprofit land trust and community-based agricultural organization working to strengthen the local food system on Cape Cod. We preserve farmland, expand access to land for farmers, and increase the production and distribution of locally grown food.
Through our farm hub, The Patch, and Service Gardens across multiple sites, we grow and donate thousands of pounds of fresh produce each year to local food access partners, including the Falmouth Service Center and the Cape & Islands Veterans Outreach Center. These efforts help address food insecurity while increasing access to fresh, nutritious, locally grown food.
We provide educational programming for all ages, offering hands-on learning experiences, workshops, and school partnerships that connect people to how food is grown, prepared, and shared. Our programs emphasize regenerative farming practices, environmental stewardship, and healthy living.
Farming Falmouth also supports and sponsors community growing spaces, including Service Gardens and a Community Orchard, which provides fresh fruit to the public while fostering shared stewardship of the land. These spaces create opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to participate in growing food and building community.
By integrating land conservation, food production, education, and community engagement, Farming Falmouth operates at the intersection of agriculture, public health, and environmental stewardship—building a more resilient, equitable, and locally rooted food system.
Farming Falmouth is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Donations to Farming Falmouth are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.”
A CASE FOR SUPPORT
The Problem:
Only 3% of the food consumed in Massachusetts is grown locally. As a society, we have outsourced our nutrition to a large industrial system that prioritizes profits and efficiency – creating problems for our climate, human health, agricultural soils, animals, and our native pollinators. With its long supply chains, the current system is also increasingly vulnerable to disruption, whether from pandemics like Covid, or weather extremes and climate change. In light of these problems, in order to create a healthier, more resilient regional food system, Massachusetts and other New England states recently set a goal of collectively growing 30% of the region’s food.
At the same time, the Farm Census confirms the continued loss of farmland, an aging farm population, and the need for a new generation of farmers. And with that need comes the realization that young farmers face huge obstacles to accessing land, especially in areas such as ours where farmland is increasingly lost to development and increasingly expensive. We’ve joined the Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts to start addressing those issues.
Goals
Goal: Preserve The Patch and other farmland parcels to make them accessible to a new generation of farmers.
Goal: Spearhead the production and distribution of more nutritious food grown locally in organic and sustainable ways.
Goal: Demonstrate and advocate for regenerative agricultural practices that build healthy soils, nourish our ecosystem and protect water.
Goal: Build partnerships with stakeholders in the food system, such as schools, government, food pantries, restaurants, and healthcare providers.