Community FarmShare

Community FarmShare (CFS) is a 501(c)(3) food systems focused nonprofit with a dual mission of addressing nutrition insecurity and supporting local small scale farms to build a resilient food system. 

Community FarmShare purchases nutrient dense farm produce from over a dozen local small scale organic, regenerative, and naturally grown vegetable and fruit farms farms and provides this produce to food insecure residents through our healthy food access programs.  We operate through our aggregation food hub location in Derwood, MD with programming throughout Montgomery County. Through this model, we manage both our Farm to School Program (F2S) (partnering with 10 MCPS schools) and our Food is Medicine (FIM) program (partnering with healthcare providers/community clinics and community based organizations) to bring a Food Is Medicine approach to addressing food insecurity in our communities.

In 2024, we plan to operate a mobile “FARMacy” Market to deepen our healthy food access mission. The mobile market will be located in various community locations at regularly scheduled days and times (near healthcare providers/community clinics and schools) to make our Food Is Medicine and Farm to School programs more accessible in communities where fresh produce access is otherwise difficult for residents to access.