Share Your Food, Share Your Story
Do you have a dish you like to make with an ingredient grown on Abundance Farm that is special to you? Share it, and your story of connection to it, in our Abundance Farm Community Recipe Book.
At Abundance Farm, we ground in Jewish values to connect people with food, the land, their community, and their own faith traditions. This cookbook, made in collaboration with the Hampshire County Food Policy Council, is a further expression of the connection between people, food, land, and stories that happens on Abundance Farm.
This book will feature recipes from community members like you that use ingredients grown on Abundance Farm. Each recipe will be accompanied by a story of what the dish means to the person who submitted it and how it connects them more deeply to the land, to others, and to themself.
How To Submit
There are a few ways you can submit your recipe, story, and a relevant photo.
1. Through the digital form
2. By emailing us at info@abundancefarm.org
3. In person on the Farm during Community Harvest Hours to fill out a paper form.
Made in collaboration with the story tellers at Hampshire County Food Policy Council
Food policy councils (FPCs) identify and propose innovative solutions to make local food systems more economically and environmentally sustainable and socially just. The Hampshire County FPC envisions a resilient community-owned regional food system where all people are empowered to live more joyful and gratifying lives through access to affordable, healthy, locally grown food of their choice.
What’s the timeline?
We began collecting stories in July and August of 2025. We will continue to collect stories on an ongoing basis in 2026, to be compiled into a digital cookbook.
If you’re reading this, we are accepting submissions! Scroll up the page to fill out our online form.
FAQ
How do I know what grows on the farm?
You can read the full list here >>
How does it work?
We need your stories and recipes! We grow so many things here at Abundance Farm. Submit a recipe that’s important to you that contains one of these ingredients, along with a description of its meaning to you. You can submit a recipe that your family makes at home, that’s emblematic of your culture, that has brought you into community with others, or that contains a plant you have a special connection with.
What’s the end goal?
We are posting recipes periodically throughout the 2026 growing season to highlight crops currently available to harvest at Abundance Farm. Once we have published enough recipes, we will compile them into our digital community recipe book, to be posted on this web page. This book will serve as an ongoing resource for community members to gain resilience and inspiration from the web of connections between Abundance Farm and our own personal and ancestral experiences. We may even print copies and use them to raise money for Abundance Farm and the FPC’s mission!
Who is behind this project?
In 2022, a project was started at Abundance Farm for people to share stories of important family recipes, made with ingredients grown at Abundance Farm. In 2025, Abundance Farm revived the project in collaboration with the Hampshire County Food Policy Council, who in the prior year made their Community Story Archive, a collection of food stories sharing community wisdom for a better future.
Have a question? We’d love to answer it!
