The Healing Place
On nineteen acres in Southwest Louisville, East African new neighbors grow food, find steady ground, and build a life that belongs to them. The community calls it the healing place.
We heal through the land.
Most days at Gosheni look like ordinary farm work. Turning soil, pulling weeds, filling a basket. But for a new neighbor far from home, a row to tend can steady a hard season. The land gives back. It feeds families, it brings people together, and it gives the day a shape.
Recovery in the soil, food on the table, a community that belongs. That is the work, and it grows because people give to it and show up for it.
Bring the harvest home
The food grown at Gosheni doesn't travel far. Join the weekly Buyers Club or stop by the Friday farm stand, where the harvest goes straight to the families who grow it and the neighbors who carry it home.
Gosheni Buyers Club
Reserve a share of the season and pick up fresh vegetables every Friday, enough to feed three or four people. SNAP/EBT counts toward your share.
Gosheni Farm Stand
Stop by 3309 Lees Ln in Shively, where produce is sold the same day it's picked. Cash, card, and SNAP/EBT all welcome.
Goshen,
made new.
Gosheni is Goshen. In Scripture, Goshen was the good land set aside for Jacob's family after they lost their home, ground where they could settle and flourish again. The name carries everything we hope for here. People starting over, given good soil, putting down roots.
The farm began in 2015 as Hope Community Farm. It became Gosheni in 2023, when Gate of Hope bought these nineteen acres. New neighbors are welcomed in the languages they already speak: Swahili, Kinyarwanda, French, Kirundi, and Kinyamulenge.
How Gosheni Grew
A place to land, and then to grow
When families first arrive in Louisville, the formal support is brief. What comes next takes longer to build. A sense of purpose. Food you can count on. People who know your name. The land gives new neighbors all three.
Time in the soil steadies the mind. The harvest feeds the families who grow it and reaches the wider community. And many of the people who farm here are elders, who find on this ground that they are needed and known again.
What happens on the land
Gosheni is not a program you sign up for. It is a place you work, and a place you belong.
A row of your own
Flip ›A row of your own
Every grower gets a plot to plant and tend, in soil that is theirs to work. Some grow food for their own table. Some grow extra to sell. What comes out of that row, and the pride that comes with it, belongs to them.
‹ BackCounseling in the rows
Flip ›Counseling in the rows
Trauma care happens out in the garden, not across a desk. Counselors work alongside growers in the languages they speak, so hands stay busy while the hard conversations find room to breathe. For many elders, this is where healing takes hold.
‹ BackCommunity farming days
Flip ›Community farming days
Elders and children work the same ground, side by side. Volunteers from across Louisville come to plant and harvest alongside our growers. People who arrived in this country alone leave the farm with neighbors they know by name.
‹ BackFood that goes home
Flip ›Food that goes home
Fresh, pesticide-free produce feeds the families who grow it first, then reaches the wider community through the farm stand. Healthy food, grown by hand, going straight to the tables that need it most.
‹ BackHow Gosheni Grew
From three leased acres to nineteen of our own. A decade of staying with the work.
Hope Community Farm begins on three acres of leased land.
The first Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) shares are sold.
More than 80 families take part in farming and counseling.
Gate of Hope starts selling surplus produce at farmers markets and grocery stores.
Louisville Metro Housing Authority reclaims the leased land to build housing.
Gate of Hope receives an acre on S. Crums Lane as a temporary home for the farm.
Gate of Hope buys Gosheni, nineteen acres in Southwest Louisville, thanks to the generosity of many.
Across all nineteen acres, new neighbors plant, harvest, and gather. Elders support each other and participate in therapy through farming, families carry home the food they grew with their own hands, and the work moves with the seasons. The healing place keeps growing.
Hands in the soil
Real days on the farm.
A grower with the morning's greens.
A full crate, fresh from the rows.
Neighbors bringing in the harvest, side by side.
Seeds in hand, ready for the next season.
Fresh food, grown and sold right here
Through the growing season, Gosheni runs a Buyers Club and a roadside Farm Stand. Members pick up a weekly share of whatever is ripe. The stand is open to anyone passing by. What you spend goes straight back into the farm and the families who work it.
Visit the Buyers Club & Farm Stand
Root a family in good ground
A gift to 100 Hearts of Hope gives a new neighbor a season on the land. Seeds and tools, a row to tend, and counseling out in the rows. This is where healing and harvest begin.
Give to 100 Hearts of HopeOr make a one-time gift Gate of Hope Ministries International is ECFA accredited.
Want to get your hands in the soil?
Volunteers are welcome on the farm. Spend a morning planting, weeding, or bringing in the harvest alongside our growers. No experience needed, just a willingness to work and to meet your neighbors.
Email us to volunteer
