Fresh food, grown by neighbors
On 19 acres at the edge of Shively in Southwest Louisville, East African families grow vegetables without chemicals or pesticides. There are two ways to bring that harvest home.
One farm that feeds two communities at once.
Gosheni is Gate of Hope's farm, 19 acres right on the Shively border in Southwest Louisville. About 50 East African families grow food here, rebuild community, and earn a fair price for what their hands produce. Louisville's East African families call it the healing place.
The harvest doesn't travel far. It goes to the families who grow it, and to the neighbors who carry it home from the stand. Same vegetable scale. Same cash box. Two communities meeting over it every week.
Recovery in the soil. Food on the table.
Everything at Gosheni is grown sustainably, without chemicals or pesticides. Better for the ground, and better for the people who tend it.
Families are served in their own languages: Swahili, Kinyarwanda, French, Kirundi, and Kinyamulenge.
Reserve your share of the season.
Buy your produce ahead of time as weekly shares. Each share is worth about $30, enough vegetables to feed three or four people, picked up fresh every Friday at the farm stand. The season runs 22 weeks, June through November.
A Full Share feeds your household. A Patron's Share covers your own produce and helps pay for a share for a neighbor in the 40216 area who can't afford one.
- Produce every other Friday, 12 to 3 PM
- Feeds three or four people each pickup
- Picked the morning you collect it
Offered as a Full Share only. Choose Full Share above, or pick a weekly plan for the Patron option.
- Fresh produce every Friday, 12 to 3 PM
- Feeds three or four people each week
- Spread the cost across the season
- Fresh produce every Friday, 12 to 3 PM
- Feeds three or four people each week
- One payment, settled for the season
To sign up, email [email protected] or call (502) 889-7714. Delivery may be available in some areas. Reach out and we'll check whether your zip code qualifies.
Misfit Shares
The same organically grown vegetables, just smaller, curvier, or a little blemished, and every bit as good to eat. Only four are offered each season, first come, first served.
Email [email protected] to ask about availability.
How to reserve and pay
Reserve your share by email or phone. Pay by check made out to Gate of Hope Gosheni, P.O. Box 6481, Louisville, KY 40206. You can also use SNAP/EBT toward your shares.
Write Buyers Club in the memo line.
The healing place.
"I came to Gosheni with one arm I could use. I started by pulling weeds with one hand. The farm gave me purpose, and the people gave me a community. Today I farm with both arms, and my produce reaches my neighbors' tables."
A Gosheni farmer
"Let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up."
Galatians 6:9
The same harvest, both directions.
Neighbors who buy it
Families, working adults, seniors, and kids in the 40216 area, where fresh food has long been hard to come by, now have a local source. In 2026 both the stand and the Buyers Club accept SNAP/EBT, so cost no longer stands between neighbors and fresh produce.
Families who grow it
Growers tend their own family plots and the Gosheni farm cooperative. The money from sales goes straight back to them. It's real income, earned through their own labor, knowledge, and skill. Many are elders and women building new lives in Louisville.
Stop by the stand.
Open Fridays from 12 to 3 PM, May through October. Produce is sold the same day it's picked. Pay with cash, check, all major credit cards, and SNAP/EBT.
Proudly Kentucky Proud.
Gosheni produce carries the Kentucky Proud label, the Commonwealth's official mark for food grown, raised, and made in Kentucky by Kentuckians. The program began in 2002 and became law in 2008.
Questions, answered.
Each share is worth about $30, enough fresh vegetables to feed three or four people. The weekly plans give you a bag every Friday. The every other Friday plan gives you one twice a month.
Fridays between 12 and 3 PM at the Gosheni Farm Stand, 3309 Lees Ln, Shively, KY 40216. Buyers Club pickups run 22 weeks, June through November.
Yes. As of 2026, SNAP/EBT works both at the farm stand and toward Buyers Club shares, alongside cash, check, and major credit cards.
Delivery may be available in some areas. Email [email protected] or call (502) 889-7714 and we'll check whether your zip code qualifies.
The same organically grown vegetables, just smaller, misshapen, or slightly blemished, and perfectly good to eat. Only four are offered each season, first come, first served. Email [email protected] to check availability.
You get the same produce on the same schedule, and you pay a little more so a neighbor in the 40216 area who can't afford a share still eats well. It widens food access while feeding your own household.
Reach out and we'll sort it out with you. Email [email protected] or call (502) 889-7714.
