Freedom House Farm funding mission with strawberries, other produce Demand for strawberries at the farm in Summerfield has soared over the last few weeks, and is helping fund the nonprofit’s mission to help single moms fight drug addiction by CHRIS BURRITT SUMMERFIELD – One morning last month, Van Moore drove up to the Freedom House Farm and asked whether he was too late to buy strawberries. He pulled behind the long line of cars and got lucky. “You’re getting the last bucket,” said volunteer Nancy Carey, collecting $18 from Moore in exchange for a white
plastic pail brimming with plump red berries. Not only did the Rockingham County resident manage to buy berries for his wife, Myra, but he also contributed to Freedom House’s mission: helping single mothers overcome drug addiction and providing a temporary home for them and their children. “We can buy strawberries anywhere, but we’d rather buy them here – if they’ve got any left,” Moore said as he prepared to drive away. In its third year, the Freedom House Farm, located on 110 acres on U.S. 158 about three-quarters of a mile east of U.S. 220, is producing a bumper crop of strawberries. From now until the end of strawberry season, farm manager Stephen Farrell predicts that pickers will harvest as many as 300 gallons of berries a day – and sell them in less than an hour
Photo by Chris Burritt/NWO
Employees and volunteers at Freedom House Farm gather a few remaining gallons of strawberries on a recent morning to sell to customers waiting in their cars. in the farm stand. “It’s amazingly insane – not having enough berries,” Farrell said in an interview after he and his crew of employees
and volunteers had sold out of berries in 15 minutes. Earlier in the morning, traffic backed up on the highway waiting for the
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