Loudoun Now published an article JK Community Farms Kicks off Growing Season with 50,000 Seedlings on May 16, 2025 on Pathway Homes and other volunteers helping with JK Community Farm’s annual Plant-A-Thon. Below is an excerpt. Read the full article.
A group today comprising Pathways Homes and other volunteers planted 1,700 seedlings. Kuhn said that two hours of work alone would yield 13,800 pounds of food.
“This is a great opportunity to be here with JK Farms because we’re all a part of an ecosystem, right?” Pathways Homes President Sylisa Lambert-Woodard said.
Pathways Homes is a nonprofit dedicated to helping individuals marginalized by poverty and those with mental health issues acquire housing.
“So many of the individuals that we serve – because the average income that they make is about $780 a month – many of these individuals are food insecure,” Lambert-Woodard said. “Being able to connect with the farms to help us develop our own food bank and food pantry … it’s a great way of just interfacing with one another, and each one of us helping each one of us to be able to address the unmet needs in the community.”
