The mission of Shalom Farms is to work with communities to ensure access to healthy food and the support to lead healthy lives. We seek to collaboratively transform the Richmond food system so that all people have access to good food – food that is good for our bodies, good for the environment, and good for our communities. After starting as a pilot project of United Methodist Urban Ministries of Richmond on just ½ acre at Westview on the James in 2009, we now harvest over 500,000 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables from our two large farms, and our food access programs serve approximately 10,000 individuals across Richmond each year. This is made possible by welcoming over 6,000 volunteers of all ages and backgrounds to our farms on an annual basis and creating partnerships with FeedMore (the Central Virginia Food Bank), local churches and community groups.
