Family Harvest Farm cultivates organic produce, sense of community

Mary Cherry was once in foster care, and later spent five years working on a farm. When the chance to do that again came up early last year, she jumped at it, moving from Santa Cruz to eastern Contra Costa County and coming to Family Harvest Farm.

“Working on a farm gave me community, which I had never known before,” said Cherry, now the manager for Family Harvest Farm, a working farm on a 3.5-acre parcel in Pittsburg that opened in June. “It also empowered me about food, the food movement. It gave me all this power I never knew I had.”