Holyoke Food and Equity Collective

Join us for some fun fall events, and check out our volunteer opportunities! On October 24th, we'll be hosting our fall community dinner at De La Luz Soundstage from 5pm-8pm. The theme and menu revolve around "The foods we almost lost". Colonization profoundly disrupted and threatened indigenous food systems. This community dinner is a celebration … Continue reading Fall Fun: Dinner, Pumpkin Smash and Volunteering!

Join us on August 22nd from 10-11am as we celebrate the opening of our second community compost hub at La Finquita! (Details below). We are excited to show off our new (and much bigger) 3-bin system, and our new sign up system! Gone are the days of spending 30 minutes watching a video, taking a … Continue reading Grand Opening! Compost Hub #2!

Save the date! Learn how to plant or replant a food producing bucket planter for free! Bring a bucket and we’ll provide soil, compost and plants. Register here (or by clicking on flyer above).Folks who have received bucket planters from us in previous years are encouraged to come and learn how to refresh and replant … Continue reading Bucket Gardening Workshop! May 22

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Want to do some volunteering this year? You can now sign up to pack diapers with us here. The dates are listed below.

Things are getting scary out there, and not just because it’s Halloween weekend. With SNAP being cut for November, we need mutual aid networks to strengthen food sovereignty in Holyoke more than ever. We've got some awesome opportunities coming up for you to get involved!   Want to get your hands dirty helping us and Western Mass … Continue reading Fall Volunteer Opportunities and Events

Here is some important information about using HIP while SNAP funds are not being given this month. Use this tool to find a HIP vendor near you, and remember to keep a non-zero balance on your SNAP account. Aquí hay información importante sobre el uso de HIP mientras no se entregan fondos de SNAP este mes. Utilice … Continue reading SNAP and HIP updates for November

We have several upcoming volunteer opportunities including working with/learning about compost on 7/12, helping us prepare and serve our summer collective dinner on 7/18, helping us harvest garlic to give away on 7/27, and packing diapers on 8/16. See them all and sign up on our volunteer page here. Volunteering with us is gratifying. It … Continue reading Summer Volunteer Opportunities!

We were honored and grateful to receive a $2000 grant (alongside many other inspiring local orgs and projects) from the Carlos Vega Fund for Social Justice this spring. We will be using the money to help fund our garden bed project next spring. NEPM interviewed us for a short piece on how this money is … Continue reading We received a Carlos Vega Fund Micro Grant!

This weekend will be our last 2 of 8 new garden bed installations in Holyoke backyards. We've been building beds in snow, rain and unexpectedly nice weather since mid-April, and after several years of building too late, we've finally gotten our timing down so that all the beds will be built by the time the Windy … Continue reading As garden beds wrap up, bucket applications are open!