Cultivate Abundance confronts food insecurity among southwest Florida farmworkers by partnering with community partners to grow, share and redistribute culturally appropriate and nutritious food through home gardens and local networks. Their work affirms the dignity of farmworkers and models a theology of abundance that transforms scarcity into shared sufficiency. From a faith and conscience perspective, they are focused on serving the “least of these” (Matthew 25:40) with a passion for justice along with a commitment to love God and their neighbors.
In addition to food production and distribution, Cultivate Abundance encourages residents to engage in home gardening for improved nutrition, particularly by sharing information, ideas, seeds, soil and tools to help families grow their own food and preserve cultural food traditions. Nurturing mutual aid, their model meets immediate hunger needs while building healthy relationships and long-term food sovereignty in the community. Partnering with local congregations, nonprofits, home gardeners and small family farms, they invoke conversations about the injustices of the food system in the United States and model a more inclusive vision for who our neighbors are, moving beyond charity to shared responsibility and flourishing.
How does Cultivate Abundance embody traditioned innovation?
Cultivate Abundance exemplifies traditioned innovation by combining Christian values and cultural food traditions with creative, community-led solutions to food insecurity. Their work is explicitly shaped by Scripture, guiding their commitment to stand with the marginalized, love their neighbors and pursue justice with humility and integrity, while also honoring food heritage and ancestral practices like seed saving and home gardening and using innovative models to build food justice and resilience in immigrant farmworker communities.
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