The EECO Farm Food Pantry Project has had a good season so far. I say “so far” because we are still growing fresh green and root vegetables with the aim of supplying them to the Food Pantry into the winter months. We are delivering 15 to 20 boxes of veggies to the East Hampton Food Pantry every week. We’ve been doing this now for more than 6 months. Carrots, kale, Swiss chard, sweet turnips, mizuna, tatsoi, lettuce, beans, radishes, tomatoes, peppers (hot and sweet), corn, basil, thyme, oregano, rosemary, sage . . . you name it, we deliver! None of this would have been possible without the help of our volunteers. First among these is John Malafronte, who has “adopted” the Food Pantry Project as his special interest. He is at the farm almost every day watering, weeding, seeding, and harvesting food pantry crops, and he got us a very nice $1,000-dollar donation specifically for the Food Pantry Project! He has rented a hoophouse from the farm for winter crops, and bought hundreds of dollars-worth of seeds and supplies. Now if I can just get him to slow down a bit so I can keep up . . . Others who helped during the growing season include Take (who drove out from Queens one day a week to help us), Annie, Marisa, Kathleen, Evan, Odalia, Bryan, Elizabeth, Michael, Deborah, Matt, Yesenia, Melissa, Martin, and Flavia. Generous donations of beautiful produce came every week from Alex Balsam and Ian Calder-Piedmonte (Balsam Farms), John and Laura Smith (EECO Farm Stand), Paul Hamilton, and Patty Gentry (an EECO farmer). What more can I say? Thank you!