How You Can Help

Updated 9-11-11

Short term projects:

  • We're in the process of planning our Support-Raiser and Benefit event on September 25th at Evening Song Farm.  Send an email to EveningSongCSA@gmail.com if you'd like to help us plan or to volunteer for a portion of the event.
  • We are looking for items to include in our silent auction!  Send us an email if you have any items or services that you would like to donate.
  • Come by the farm anytime with a chainsaw and chaps to cut up the forest debris on our fields.  We'll show you where.
  • We're looking to buy any spoiled hay that farmers' may have lost from the flooding.  We'll use it to mulch our garlic.
  • In mid-October we can put many hands to use planting garlic on a neighbor's field.  Sign up for our email list to be kept in the loop.

Long term projects:

  • We're going to keep growing vegetables in the greater Rutland area.  The biggest missing link towards moving forward is finding land to lease or purchase on which we can grow.  We would need a minimum of 4 open acres to run our business, and it would be ideal to have more land in order to keep options open, such as growing grain, having more cover crops in rotation, and perhaps adding pasture for animals and draft horse power.  Let us know if you're aware of any possibilities: we're willing to pay to lease good farmland.
  • If you have specialized mechanical or building skills and would like to help out, let us know.
  • Ryan will likely work with a local carpenter/handyman this fall, and Kara will be looking for work this fall and winter.  Let us know if you know of any possibilities for work.

Financial help:

  • This disaster hurts us financially in the lost crops, destroyed greenhouse, lost irrigation system, and the loss of the land that is the foundation of our ability to earn a living.  We borrowed enough money when we started in order to stay afloat in case we didn't meet our income goals in the first year.  That safety net means that we have enough money to pay our loans and live through the winter, and we'll both look for work this fall and winter to support ourselves.  We're looking for financial help to invest in infrastructure wherever we end up growing.  Our aspiration is for this help to be an investment in our community: we feel called to grow food and to do what we can to make our community even more vibrant, resilient, and beautiful.  We aspire to use donated funds to replace infrastructure to allow us to more fully serve and support people in this area.  We're taking this tragedy as a call to create something that serves the community more powerfully. We don't yet know exactly what form it will take, but it's likely that we may develop infrastructure to allow us to maximize winter production to produce healthy food year round.  This part can be bright and collaborative-- what form do you want to see a new farm take in your community?  This is a new opportunity for us and everyone who we can feed in the future.  Our plans will take more form as we have more conversations with each other and with people in the community about how to proceed.

If you choose to donate, checks can be made to 

Evening Song Farm
1451 Rt 103
Cuttingsville, VT 05738

We're also looking into ways that organizations or philanthropists can make charitable donations.  If you're interested in making a charitable donation, please contact us.  

Email: eveningsongCSA@gmail.com

Phone: 802-358-0011