Carwood Supports a Healthy Community

When you purchase from Carwood Farm, you are a part of supporting the community in the following ways: (2020, 21, 22, 23, 24, 1st quarter 25)

Bundles 

Carwood Beef & Burger Bundles, are provided to families in our local area who are in difficult periods of their lives.  Each bundle has been sponsored by a Carwood Farm customer, Boiling Springs Bubbler Foundation or a few other local organizations.  Bundles are distributed to families by our partners: The Bubbler Foundation, New Life Community Church and **Nan's Kitchen in the Carlisle YMCA. 

• 38 Bundles provided in 2020
• 44 Bundles provided in 2021
• 41.5 Bundles provided in 2022
• 58 Bundles provided in 2023 
• 73 Bundles provided in 2024
• 18 Bundle provided in 1st quarter 2025

Totaling 270.5 bundles or 1758.25 lbs. of beef! (based on average 6.5 lbs. per bundle)

 **""Nan’s Kitchen is a new initiative the Carlisle Family YMCA introduced at the beginning of November to help address food insecurity among its members and program participants. Thanks to a generous grant from The Stabler Foundation, the Y is offering free afterschool snacks, a weekly hot meal for 7th Grade Initiative participants, swim team members and community members of the YMCA. The Y is also providing Bagel Tuesdays for seniors and a food pantry for families in its Childcare Center. The Y appreciates partnerships with Helena’s Café and Creperie, Carwood Farm, Good Keeper Farm and Three Springs Fruit Farm, which are helping to stretch the grant funding from The Stabler Foundation for Nan’s Kitchen.  According to Feeding America’s annual Map the Meal Gap report, in 2021 over 18,000 people in Cumberland County were food insecure. Nan's aims to help combat this."

Local Organizations supported with donations in 2023, 2024 & 2025 (so far)

• Life Works @ New Life Community Church, Carlisle
• Mini-thon (Four Diamonds)
• Boiling Springs High School Volleyball
• Bubbler Foundation
• Selfless Service
• USA Stars (cheerleading and dance)
• Boiling Springs High School Football
• South Middleton Soccer Association

Pumpkins

Carwood Pick Your Own Pumpkin Patch donation recipients:

274 pumpkins in 2021

371 pumpkins in 2022  

We didn't get a pumpkin harvest in 2023 or 2024

Environment

Carwood partnered with The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Pheasants Forever to plant wildflowers & trees on the farm.  We have established an additional partnership with "Ebenezer Honey" owned and operated by Pastor Ryan Brown of New Life Community and his wife Maureen.  They had 11 bee hives on the farm in 2022, 15 in 2023 with plans to grow to 30 in 2024!  Among other things the Pollinator Habitat resulting from these plantings and hives will encourage the bees to pollinate the crops and pumpkin blossoms to make our Pick Your Own Pumpkin Patch even more awesome! 

"Raising happy healthy cows, while building a happy healthy community"