Guidestone

Guidestone’s Farm to School Program provides fresh, local produce and education to Salida School District (SSD) and the Salida community. Recently, through a local food assessment community feedback process, Guidestone is seeing increased food insecurity in our valley due to economic pressures from COVID-19, the closure of the largest produce farm within an hour, and the closure of the only local grocery carrying significant amounts of locally produced foods. In response to this need, Guidestone will grow more produce; expand alternative food distribution through existing programs such as our workshare CSA, garden caretaker program and home gardener education programming; and by launching a summer CSA of weekly produce shares with the hospital.