Arcadia Food, Inc.

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Arcadia stands on the shoulders of giants -- ordinary people who, 180 years ago, saw what was wrong with the world and set about creating something better on this very farm. Surrounded on all sides by slave plantations, 20 years before the Civil War,  the people of Woodlawn -- Quaker, Black, White, and Immigrant -- established a free farming town where everyone was equal. They used this farm to advance the causes of freedom and equal justice, with good food and farming their cornerstone. 

We take a lot of courage from them now, and -- just like them -- we aim to use these acres to create something better for all of us. 

Good food.
Strong connections to the land, and to each other. 
Healthy communities. 

Your Spring2Action donation to Arcadia this year will help us make sure our most vulnerable neighbors have good food, and neighborhood children in need can come to Arcadia Farm Camp on full scholarships. 

At our Mobile Markets, your donations support doubling the face-value of food stamps, and support our Produce and Proteins Program in Hybla Valley. 

Many of our neighbors are currently in peril -- losing their jobs and livelihoods after years of faithful service, losing health care and food benefits, and some the only home they have ever known.

We can't do everything, but we can do this. 

Thank you for being an Arcadian (which you become, the exact moment you click donate!).

Who We Are

Arcadia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating vibrant regional food systems that build the health of our land, our food, and our community, from the farm forward. 

Arcadia is reimagining the food system from the ground up -- one community, one family, one meal at a time.

Our Mobile Markets bring fresh, locally grown food directly into DC’s most vulnerable neighborhoods, places where grocery stores have closed, where fast food is easier to find than an apple. We don’t just sell produce; we build food security and dignity. Every item starts at an affordable price, and every federal nutrition benefit is doubled, because everyone deserves access to healthy food, not just those who can afford it.

But Arcadia’s work goes much deeper -- back to the source. 

We grow food on our suburban farm, just outside the city: close enough to be connected, big enough to be impactful. It’s a working model of regenerative agriculture and community collaboration, showing what a healthy, local food system can look like.

We train veterans to be farmers, providing a path from service to stewardship, and a livelihood rooted in purpose. We welcome children to discover where food really comes from ...and the wonder of pulling a carrot from the earth. We support school and community gardens, helping them thrive long after the first planting. And we open our gates at the Route 1 Community Farm, where low-income and military families can grow and harvest their own food, entirely for free.

Every Arcadia program is a piece of a larger whole, creating a farm-to-community pathway that shifts demand, consumption, and appreciation for the land that sustains us all.

When you support Arcadia, you’re not just helping to feed people: you’re helping transform a system that impacts our health, our happiness, our communities and our land. 

Your donation helps grow a food system rooted in equity, sustainability, and shared abundance -- where everyone gets a seat at the table.