Upcoming Fundraisers
Mark your calendars for one of our favorite traditions of the year! Hope Springs Farm's Annual Fall Harvest Barbecue is a day of food, fun, and community, bringing together Growers, families, friends, neighbors, and supporters to celebrate another incredible year at the Farm.
Enjoy a delicious barbecue meal, visit our farm animals, browse handmade crafts and raffle baskets, participate in family-friendly activities, and experience everything that makes Hope Springs Farm such a special place. Every ticket purchased helps support meaningful opportunities for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
We hope you'll join us as we celebrate the season and the amazing community that continues to help our Farm grow!
Event Sponsors:
We're excited to introduce event sponsorship opportunities for this year's Fall Harvest Barbecue!
Sponsoring the event is a wonderful way for businesses, organizations, and individuals to support Hope Springs Farm while receiving recognition throughout the event and our promotional materials. Sponsors can help fund specific event expenses such as our community meal, tent and seating, entertainment, children's activities, raffle baskets, and more.
Your sponsorship not only helps make this special day possible—it directly supports the meaningful programs and experiences we provide for our Growers every day.
If you or your business are interested in becoming a sponsor, we'd love to hear from you!
Click here to download our sponsorship letter
Volunteers Needed:
Our Fall Harvest Barbecue wouldn't be possible without the incredible support of our volunteers and community partners!
We're looking for volunteers to help with a variety of tasks throughout the day, including:
Greeting guests and welcoming community members
Assisting with parking
Selling meal tickets
Helping at activity stations
Monitoring raffle tables
Keeping the event grounds clean and organized
Assisting with setup and cleanup
We're also accepting raffle basket donations and individual raffle items. Gift cards, themed baskets, experiences, merchandise, and locally donated products are always crowd favorites and help us raise additional funds during the event.
Whether you can volunteer your time, donate a raffle item, or simply spread the word, your support makes a meaningful difference. Together, we can make this year's Fall Harvest Barbecue our best one yet!
Hope Springs Farm features a secure, fenced garden area with more than 40 raised beds, offering Growers hands-on opportunities to learn and grow throughout the seasons. Our professional, four-season greenhouse allows planting and harvesting to continue year-round, ensuring the garden remains an active and meaningful part of Farm life in every season.
Each year, Growers cultivate and enjoy a wide variety of fresh produce, including peas, onions, leafy greens, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, berries, root vegetables, peppers, and herbs. This abundance helps support the Farm while also giving Growers the opportunity to take fresh produce home to share with their families and friends.
In addition to the raised beds, Growers care for elderberry bushes, a blueberry patch, and our herb and flower gardens.
Daily activities—such as planting, watering, weeding, pruning, and harvesting—are guided by the seasons and provide meaningful, routine work that builds skills, confidence, and pride.
Be a part of our "SHARING HOPE" Community Activities Program
SHARING HOPE is a great way to double your giving impact in the local community. We ask donors to give to their favorite charity or organization through us. Read the FLYER or the rack card for more information.
For example when someone donates $100 they can request we help the places like the Ronald McDonald House or some other local organizations and we make contact with the organization and find out what materials or supplies they need. The Growers go out and buy the items on their wish list and deliver them to the organization that day.
This is why we called it SHARING HOPE, donors get to give to their favorite charity and they also SHARE their donation with the Growers in the form of a full day of community volunteer work for our Growers. Our Growers love to do this kind of volunteer work and it gives them a sense that the community needs them and they are valued.
CommunityAid Partner
We are a CommunityAid Virtual Partner, which means we collect both here at the farm or you can donate the lightly used clothing and shoes directly to a Donation Center to receive donation credit for our organization.
Any donor can have the first-hand experience of truly making a difference for our nonprofit, so tell others to donate to CommunityAid in our name, as well! See the link below for locations and hours of our donation doors. Shop — CommunityAid
Click the image below to download our label template.
Click the image above for full list of accepted donations