This provides a chance for more local equity and accessibility. For a place that is so rural and remote, local food access is extremely difficult in Madison County.

For many rural communities like Madison County. Transportation can be a huge barrier for life. It’s expensive, difficult to maintain and/or not always available. We want to deliver to Community Members for free. Slow grown food is not for the elite.

To be honest, we most likely will never cover the labor costs. But you can help us to cover the costs of weekly shares and items that can be donated each week. If we receive a sum of funds that covers our shares for the week, then any remaining funds will spill over into the next week’s shares.

As a person who grew up in Madison County, a place with so much open land and agriculture. Leigha knew far too many kids, families and older adults that did not have access to good food or who went to sleep hungry. Let’s work to improve this — Odd Crop will only play a small part in a larger community issue. But we’re here to do what we can and to grow this support.

Many people have been stripped from the education of what seasonal food is and how to easily cook with it. We hope to introduce seasonal foods, storage suggestions, recipes and more with our Community Shares. Plus, we hope to connect folks with the kitchen tools and supplies they might be without (this is super common, even basic cooking tools).

We may be surrounded by open fields and agriculture but many people have been removed from having any form of connection to the land and food that is grown here. We also as young white farmers hope to get to a place where we can donate and provide reparations to the Haudenosaunee or Oneida Indian Nation.