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Charity Farms, branded as The Victory Garden for the 21st Century, began as a 35-acre organic farm in Central Florida dedicated to growing and distributing nutritious vegetables of the highest quality to improve the quality of life of the homeless, the economically impoverished and the elderly. The produce is delivered vine-ripened fresh the same day of harvest to local food banks where it is distributed to over 500 area non-profits who serve those in need. The Charity Farms concept seems to have gone viral with farms and gardens popping up all across America. The concept has even morphed into a planetary hunger and health solution with Charity Farms sprouting up worldwide.

As laudable as the effort to provide food to the world’s hungry has been, shipping food, although necessary for the short term, is not a sustainable solution. The teaching of time-honored organic farming techniques ensures that people everywhere have access to a consistent source of healthy, nutritious food. Long lost to many peoples of the earth, the life-nourishing knowledge of healthy eating through organic farming can be re-learned and subsequently passed down from one generation to the next. This is a planetary hunger and health solution that is sustainable and attainable.

Give a man food, you have fed him for a day…Teach a man to farm, and you have fed him for a lifetime…” To begin making this statement a reality we are establishing an eco-garden learning center in Apopka, Florida to teach people how to grow organic food anywhere. This center will include a worm farm for composting, greenhouses, home gardening systems, rainwater collection techniques, farm worker housing solutions, as well as examples of solar power. The 10-acre, picturesque Apopka Charity Farm with its horse, pony, chickens and roosters provides a wonderful setting for school field trips and community gatherings.