Community FEAST Farm Program

At A Glance

Location: 

Montpelier, Vermont

Primary Issue Area:

  • Food
  • Living Economies

Active since:

2020

  • High school youth members of the Montpelier Youth Conservation Corps (MYCC) weed fields and tend to crops on the FEAST Farm
  • Middle schoolers, high schoolers, and some community volunteers gather for a day of volunteering at the community FEAST farm.
  • National life volunteers plant trees at the FEAST Farm site, along the Winooski River
  • Members of the Montpelier Youth Conservation Corps (MYCC) after the garlic harvest.
  • Farm manager Charlie Watt and AmeriCorps member Jen Ireland celebrate the first radish harvest of the 2023 season.

Our Purpose

The City of Montpelier Community FEAST Farm Program is a public, collaborative, not-for-profit farm program that grows food for our food-insecure neighbors. The program provides fresh, local vegetables to a low-income farm stand, the FEAST Meals Program (which distributes meals to vulnerable, older adults), the Just Basics food pantry, the free downtown community fridge, and anyone who comes by and needs food. Furthermore, the FEAST Farm Program is fueled by the work of a huge variety of folks including department of labor trainees, AmeriCorps members, high-school members of the Montpelier Youth Conservation Corps (MYCC), and older-adult volunteers. Thus, the program endeavors to foster intergenerational connections, while asking the radical question: “can a city feed its people?”