United States & Canada
The model comes home.
The same approach we proved over eighteen years in East Africa is now taking root in North America. Teach a community to grow its own food, then hand it over.
Why here, why now
The need came home too.
Food banks across the US and Canada are stretched thinner than ever. Demand is up, shelves are bare, and in many towns the local pantry has closed entirely. The people walking in often have no job, no spare cash, and no way to grow their own food.
That is the exact problem we have been solving in Kenya and Tanzania for eighteen years. So we are bringing the model home, starting with Roland’s own property in New York, the first You Feed Them community garden in the US, and townships like Bethlehem, New York are next on the list.
How it works at home
A garden, a network, and a way to keep it fed.
Education that grows food
Raised-bed gardening, drip irrigation, living soil, and probiotics, the same techniques we use in Kenya. People spend a few hours a week at the garden and go home with their own basket of vegetables, and we teach them to grow and preserve their own food.
Plugging into the local network
Roughly ninety percent of US food banks run through a local church. We come alongside that existing network and add the education layer, so a pantry that only hands out food can start helping people grow it.
Owned by the community
Just like the East Africa villages, every US garden is built to be handed to the community that runs it. Once it stands on its own, we move on to the next one.
The Beef Donor Club
Give to the work. Get first dibs on the beef.
We partner with a regenerative farm north of New York City that raises certified organic, omega-balanced, grass-fed beef, the kind of meat you can trace from pasture to plate.
Become a donor and you do two things at once: you fund the gardens and the food-bank work, and you get first access to buy that beef, by the half-cow or the cut. It connects a farmer who wants to do it right with people who want real food and want their giving to go somewhere they can see.
How the club works
- 1Make a donation to You Feed Them’s US work.
- 2Join the donor list for the partner farm’s next harvest.
- 3Get first dibs to buy certified-organic, grass-fed beef, by the half-cow or the cut.
US charitable status
You Feed Them is pursuing US 501(c)(3) charitable status, applied for in early 2026 under the religious and education categories. Until it is confirmed, we will tell you exactly what is and is not tax-receipted before you give.
Canadian donors can already receive a CRA tax receipt through our partner The Great Commission Foundation. For US receipting questions, get in touch.
Help the model take root at home.
Fund the first US community garden, back the food-bank work, or join the beef donor club. Every gift builds something a community will own.