The video below will
explain the major reason our farm
exists. I did not make this video... I could
have never made a video that tells and explains the
problem of Hunger in America any better. Please take
a few minutes to view this video, then look at what
we do here at the Lighthouse Food Farm. We are
only a small farm but we are making a huge impact on
hunger.
Thank you for your most valuable time and attention
while visiting our website.
Our mission is to eradicate
hunger, alleviate poverty and green our environment.
We also bring together children, adults and seniors
in urban areas to plant food gardens on unused land
and space throughout America. Community members are
given the tools and education to create a lasting sustainable
solution to these issues and receive hope for a better
future. Neighbors share their fresh, healthy, organic
produce with local food banks to help others in need.
This system of working together for a common cause while
increasing diversity builds safer cities. Planting beautiful
food gardens helps to lower the heat index in urban
areas, aiding the fight against global warming.
When you donate to Lighthouse Food
Farm, you are doing more than helping provide food.
You are sending hope and joy to hard working families
that are struggling with the difficult decision of whether
to pay the bills or pay for groceries.
Lighthouse Food Farm is Helping Feed
Hungry Americans
Lighthouse Food Farm
has been focused on upper region of South Carolina.
Because of the Great need we have expanded our ideals
and work across America.
We grow fresh vegetables
and fruits to donate to help feed hungry Americans.
All vegetables and fruits are organically grown. We
raise a spring crop of the normal spring vegetables
and during the winter we grow greens like Turnip Greens,
Collards, Curly Mustard and Kale. We donate the fresh
vegetables and fruit to soup kitchens, food banks, food
shelves and to people that have fallen through the cracks
of our system.
We are continuing to
expand our farms as the need for what we do is expanding
as well. We expand our crops in the event of finding
a good deal in property to purchase or if someone is
willing to donate the use of their land for us to use.
Our emphasis and attention
has been focused on an outcry of distress in Hunger,
due to the excessive layoffs from the Job market.
We have dealt with the
Elderly, Shut-ins, displaced families, medically Indigent,
and those that are working, but having a difficult decision
of whether to pay the bills or pay for groceries.
Our great focus is toward
the specialized needs in surrounding Areas of immediate
Hunger that faces so many today. There isn't enough
money if just one person in the family is working; children
are not eating well with the common family. It takes
every penny when you have small babies to exist.
Have you ever looked
into the eyes of a hungry child and watched them when
a small amount of food was put before them? It will
make your heart sing with delight to know you have helped
that suffering to end.
We have looked on
these suffering issues for too long. Help us give them
Hope.
Lighthouse Food Farm
wants to give Americans hope where there is no hope.
Lighthouse Food Farm
is a standalone Christian Agency and is depending upon
many Companies and Individuals like you to help with
this greatly needed work that serves so many.
Thank you in advance
for your consideration in this matter to Help End Hunger.
Helping Feed Homeless and Hungry Americans
Giving Hope Where There is No Hope
Lighthouse Food Farm
wants to give Hungry Americans hope where there is no
hope.
Lighthouse Food Farm
is a standalone Christian Agency and is depending upon
many Companies and Individuals like you to help with
this greatly needed work that serves so many.
We donate 100% of the
all the crops that we grow to Soup Kitchens, elderly,
Shut-Ins and to individuals that we learn that need
help from the different local authorities, churches
and other agencys.
We are a Non-Profit
Organization, our 501(c)3 Tax-Exempt Status is in Progress.
This means your donations and contributions are Tax
Deductible Exemptions to the Lighthouse Food Farm with
501(c)3 status pending. Together we can continue to
Help Feed Hungry Americans and Homeless Americans. Your
generous donations and contributions are greatly appreciated.
We have had help from
many individuals, small businesses, local Farms, Garden
centers, Small and Large Corporations like: Wal-Mart,
Lowe's, Home Depot, Park's Seed, Dicksons Tractor, Local
Chicken Farms, Wilson's Processing, local grocery stores,
and people willing to allow us to borrow their equipment
when needed here at the Lighthouse Food Farm. There
have been many more individuals that don't live in our
area that donated to help us help others in need. This
doesn't begin to cover all who have donated time, expertise
or monetarily to help the Lighthouse Food Farm. Thank
you all for the Help that has made this Lighthouse Food
Farm a Great success.
My Thoughts on Hunger in America
Hunger
exists not because there isn’t enough
food to go around, but because many
people can’t afford the food they
need. And even when people in the
U.S. can’t afford food, they rarely
face starvation thanks to food stamps,
emergency food programs, school
meals, and other resources. But
there are many that slip through
the cracks of our system that desperately
need our help.
If you are looking
to help others in need, we are one
charity of many that really needs
your help. We would most graciously
appreciate any and all donations
you may give to help us continue
our food farm. Please read and view
all the information below to learn
more about what we do to Help Feed
Hungry Americans. We have grown
over the last five years and hope
to continue to advance what we can
do to help others. Unfortunately,
the need is growing much greater
with our economy in a downward spiral.
So why should you be
concerned? Our nation’s needy and “food-insecure” citizens
may get food, but they don’t get nutritious or steady
amounts of food, which is detrimental to adults' ability
to work, children's ability to learn and seniors' ability
to stay healthy. And because money stretches the best
when it’s used to buy packaged, calorie-dense foods,
our nation faces obesity and health-related issues.
That’s why it’s everybody’s problem, not just a problem
for those less fortunate.
Learn more about our
food program to feed hungry americans with nutritious
organic grown fresh fruits and vegetables by continuing
to read the information below.
The Choices of Hunger
Did you know that just
one meal could stand between a family having a home
and being Homeless? Sometimes people have to choose
whether to eat or to have a shelter / home. Many families
could lose their home if they missed only one paycheck
/ payday. Working together, our efforts can Help Feed
Hungry Americans that are facing these issues.
Here is an answer to
some of your questions on why I do this. Without going
into a long story, my family has been where many Americans
are now. Some people graciously gave my family a Helping
Hand when we needed it the most, I'm just Paying it
Foward!
I feel that God has
called me to do this because, good people have bad things
happening to them. I think that we should all care and
help all we can. It could be us in their situation at
any time in our lives. We would love to give as many
a Helping Hand as possible. I know we appeciated it
very much when we got a Helping Hand ourselves from
people who cared for my family.
Our plans will assure
that we can continue Helping Feed Homeless and Hungry
Americans!
Learn about Our Lighthouse Food Farm
Growing Fresh Fruits & Vegetables
To Feed Hungry Americans
We have eighteen (18)
acres where we are able grow fruits and vegetables to
Help Feed Hungry Americans and Homeless Americans. While
taking care of the three acres we have at the main location,
I travel to our other 15 acres, to organize the planting
to insure that they are producing quality fruits and
vegetables.
Although hunger receives
a lot of attention during the holidays, hunger also
affects people every day of the year. In fact, hunger
is at it's peak during the summer when free school meals
are on hiatus.
Hunger has no place in
our country or our world. Yet, just this
week the number of people in America on
food stamps and people having to use the
Soup Kitchens has reached an all-time
high. Now more than ever, we must commit
to addressing this unacceptable issue.
Nobody should have to struggle to put
food on the table.
It is time for all Americans
to reevaluate its priorities and take a genuine stance
on solving the issue of hunger in the United States.
With one in six Americans at risk of hunger, it is unconceivable
that our country sends billions of dollars to foreign
nations. Let's take the proven scalable solutions put
forward by Share Our Strength, Feeding America, and
other hunger strategy nonprofits, and fund them to the
point where child hunger and hungry Americans in America
is a thing of the past.
Food banks across the
United States reported shortages of food donations for
hungry families. As the winter months continue, let
us fight with the kind and generous souls who serve
our food banks and the hungry everywhere to end our
food crisis!
You can do more than
just give food and money. A helping hand with the effort
is needed to operate and manage a food bank. This help
is often welcome and greatly appreciated!
Help is needed right
now! Please volunteer or contribute to your local food
bank.
Thank you for your
consideration in this matter to Help End Hunger.
Our Goals Beyond the Lighthouse Food
Farm are:
• To
encourage city leaders, organizations and individuals
to take their abandonded vacant lots all across America
and turn them into a productive Food plot to help
the Hungry and Homeless Americans.
• Seeds,
plants and fertilzers are needed for each food plot.
The amount will vary for each plot according to size
of area to be planted.
• These
vacant lots would be cleaned up if needed and soil
tested to make sure there is no contamination that
would be harmful for growing fruits and vegetables.
These community gardens could be worked by local volunteers,
local organizations and the homeless. Allowing cities
to grow fruits and vegetables to supply their community
food banks, etc.
• Fruits
like grapevines, blueberries, muscadines and such
are needed to plant where the land can not be plowed. This will allow this type of land to be used so that it will
be productive as well.
• We
need to encourage our cities, towns and metropolitan
areas to plant fruit trees in parks, playgrounds and
ball parks. This would help many people in the area
to have some meaningful nutrition that they may not be able to acquire otherwise.
• While being productive
and helping feed the Hungry and Homeless across the
United States. This will help beautify our cities, towns and metropolitan
areas across the nation as well.
• We
need your Help in making this happen across America,
including suggestions, volunteering and donations
that would be Greatly Appreciated.
Donations or Contributions to Lighthouse
Food Farm
• All
Donations are appreciated, Great or Small!
• Thank
you for your most valuable time and attention to this
cause.
• All
Donations and Contributions will be used within the
United States ONLY!
• Thank
you if you have decided to Contribute to the Lighthouse
Food Farm.
• May
God Richly Bless You and Yours!
• If
you would like to contact me personally, call Jim Bonham
@ 985-640-2790
Registered with State of South Carolina
- Office of the Secretary of State
South Carolina Public Charities -
Public Charity Permit Number 19429
If you wish to make
a contribution, please make it to:
Mail Contribution
to:
Please Make
Checks Payable to: Lighthouse Food Farm
Lighthouse Food Farm
% Jim Bonham
1282 Dr. Johns Road
Westminster, SC 29693
or
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Card or Debit Card to Contribute
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Here are a few ways we Help Feed Hungry Americans:
We Grow and Donate Fresh Fruits and Vegetables to
Soup Kitchens
We Grow and Donate Fresh Fruits and Vegetables to
Food Banks / Food Shelves
Help People to start Community Gardens across the
United States
Deliver Fresh Fruits and Vegetables to the elderly
and shut-ins
Coordinate with other Non-Profit Organizations to
Feed Hungry Americans
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Our Brochure Here
