December 2025 Newsletter
As we close out the year, we’re reflecting on the countless moments of connection, growth, and community that you helped make possible. This season, we invite you to celebrate the people who brighten your life by giving a gift that nourishes others in their honor. Whether it’s supporting school gardens, providing fresh local produce to families, or strengthening our regional food system, your gift plants the seeds for a healthier, more food-secure future — and becomes a meaningful tribute to someone you cherish.
Give a Gift of Meaning this Holiday Season
For the one who helps your world grow and values giving back… Shop our gifts this holiday season and beyond!
Every tribute gift includes a wildflower seed paper card for your recipient — a living symbol of the nourishment their gift helps grow.
Our beautiful greenhouse is moving full steam ahead! Construction is nearing completion — the frame is up, the polycarbonate siding and roof are installed, and both the ridge and side vents are in place. Last week, the team added the energy curtain, with just a bit of finishing work on the flashing to follow. Once power is connected — the final step before we can officially open the doors — this space will allow us to grow fresh produce year-round, powered sustainably by solar energy.
Here’s a sneak peek at how it’s coming together. We can’t wait to fill it with everything it needs to truly flourish. Thank you to EVERYONE who helped make this vision a reality!
Aerial views of Frogfoot Farm at season’s end — thank you, Clark Gee, for the amazing shots!
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A coalition advancing regional food security through equity and sustainable systems
Emergency Food Resource Meetings Now Held Weekly
As we move from crisis response to long-term coordination, SFPC will now host Emergency Food Resource Meetings weekly — creating space for partners to share updates, align efforts, and develop lasting solutions together
Support a Food Equity Advisor: $600
Help ensure that community voices guide our regional food system. This gift provides an annual stipend for a Food Equity Advisor—an individual with lived experience of hunger—to participate in the Southcoast Food Policy Council’s policy and program design process.
HARVESTING SURPLUS | SHARING ABUNDANCE | STRENGTHENING COMMUNITY
Harvesting surplus crops, feeding neighbors, and building community across Southeastern Massachusetts
We are Hiring: Fields to Families Program Manager
Fields to Families is entering an exciting new chapter with the addition of our Program Manager, whose role will focus on scaling our gleaning program and strengthening relationships across farms, volunteers, and food access partners. Their work will ensure even more healthy, local food reaches families who need it most.
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Farm-to-school program promoting health, sustainability, equity, and ecological literacy
What’s Growin’ On!
This month Grow Education students explored culture, history, and hands-on learning across our school gardens and classrooms. November brought rich lessons tied to Native American Heritage Month, including the Wampanoag Three Sisters growing tradition, district-wide tastings of Three Sisters stew in New Bedford, and field trips to Plimoth Patuxet for over 1,200 students. While gardens settled in for winter, hydroponic systems restarted to keep fresh greens growing indoors, and students sampled local foods like Massachusetts cranberries and school-grown garlic.
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Craft a meaningful legacy through the Marion Institute’s Legacy Society with planned gifts, impacting our mission in perpetuity.
If you’ve designated a planned gift, or have questions about our Legacy Society, please reach out at legacy@marioninstitute.org or 508-748-0816, ext. 118.
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