Change Starts in Your Backyard

Our Mission

To address systemic barriers to good health in communities with limited resources, to improve the health, educational attainment, and opportunities for youth, adults and families in Whitakers, and surrounding areas in North Carolina.

Our Story

Hill Family Farm Education Center is the 20+ acre passion project of husband and wife team, Eunice and Silvester Hill. They founded their farm in 2008 in Whitakers, NC, a town where more than 33% of the population lives in poverty and youth experience extremely poor health outcomes and obesity, and began providing nutritious local food to anyone who needed help.

By 2015, Hill Family Farm had grown to serve as a crucial community resource, creating programs that help acknowledge and address the assets and challenges of their community. That means improving access to fresh fruits and vegetables; educating and inspiring people of all ages and abilities; and planting seeds today that will blossom into opportunities tomorrow.

The Supporters Who Help Our Work Take Root

We could not do our work without the continuous generous support of our grant providers and donors. We are grateful to everyone who has supported our mission for the past 6 years.

Resourceful Communities/Conservation Funds
North Carolina Community Foundation
North Carolina Healing Communities
Edgecombe County City Office Mini Grant
Food Lion Supermarket
Edgecombe Charitable Funds
COVID 19 Rural Community
USDA/ RCS
B/Hive Homestead
Versa-Kyle Entertainment and Consultant Service
A&T University
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle

Innovative Networking Group

Louis Oriole Burevitch Endowment

Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust

The Cannon Foundation

Halifax Community College Small Business

Halifax County Public Schools

Princeville Elementary School

Trillium Health Ahoskie