‘It’s A Wonderful Way To Be A Blessing’: First Fruits Farm Looking For Volunteers This Holiday Season

FREELAND, Md. (WJZ) — First Fruits Farm successful Freeland Maryland is 204 acres of charitable giving, helping enactment millions of pounds of nutrient connected plates each year.

The non-profit Christian ministry workplace was founded by Rick Bernstein and his woman 25 years ago.

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“We turn nutrient and springiness nutrient distant successful Jesus name,” said Berstein.

Over the years they’ve fed radical from Baltimore, to South Carolina, adjacent arsenic acold westbound arsenic Oklahoma, by donating their harvest to section nutrient banks.

“You cognize I don’t unrecorded successful West oregon East Baltimore, I don’t unrecorded successful Winchester, West Virginia, but we enactment with radical determination successful their communities that are blessing radical successful their community,” said Berstein.

This clip of twelvemonth it’s each astir potatoes, Bernstein estimates their harvest astir 1.3 cardinal pounds this twelvemonth but they besides turn things similar broccoli, brussel sprouts, tomatoes and cabbage.

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It’s each harvested by a squad of volunteers similar Joe Raab.

“I get to travel retired present arsenic often arsenic I tin and really beryllium successful the ungraded and cognize that what I’m doing is really feeding somebody,” said Raab.

The enactment takes spot year-round but is other meaningful implicit the holidays.

This year, the Farm’s Thanksgiving Dinner Giveaway task volition instrumentality spot connected Saturday, Nov. 20 successful Park Heights and volition service 600 families a implicit vacation meal successful a box.

First Fruits Farm donates 10-lb bags of potatoes and cabbage for each box, arsenic good arsenic covering the outgo of the turkeys, portion others supply further ingredients to implicit the meal.

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Sean Streicher