With a small investment, families can raise chickens for eggs, meat, and manure to earn income to meet their basic needs for food, clothing, and school tuition. Your gift of a chicken helps a family access a consistent source of protein and start a small business in backyard chicken farming.

Fruit trees produce food during difficult times when other crops may fail. Trees also provide income, medicine, shade, soil restoration, natural compost, reforestation, and protection from the environment.

A loop hoe is a simple farm tool for weeding that helps a homesteading family raise more food to eat and sell for income. This tool saves time, increases crop yields, and ultimately contributes to a family’s overall health and wellbeing.

Traditional foods like corn or rice and beans provide calories, but not enough nutrients for long-term health. Your gift of new seed varieties provides hard-working parents and growing children with produce like spinach, long beans, carrots, and tomatoes for more balanced meals that include the vitamins and minerals required for good health.

Help a family eat more nutritious food every day by growing a garden right outside their door. A sack garden is a great way to add fruit and vegetables to a family’s diet. Give a kitchen garden kit of 5 gunnysacks and 5 seed starter packets. Just add soil, water, and sunshine!