Our Mission
Restoring health and hope in the lives of people through seeds of knowledge and abundant resources.
The Vision
A spirit of restoration brings fruition to happier and healthier futures for all.
The Story
Sowing for Health started following over 30 years of serving the South Florida community with hot meals delivered door to door and then school to school. The co-founders, Ozzie and Rachel, would feed the homeless, the jobless, the abused, the forgotten, out of their small 300 square foot commercial kitchen in Homestead, Florida. While their daughters slept on the floor of their tiny warehouse business, they overcame challenges that many people have not been so fortunate to achieve in their lifetime. On a daily basis they would feed and deliver hundreds of meals, thousands upon thousands a year. Despite both coming to this country in their middle school years, overcoming a language barrier, they still managed to learn the American system and created a business that helped pay their bills and supported people with every last dollar they had. Even when they lost everything in 2008, they were able to rebuild from nothing and continue their compassionate mission to help others.
In 2020, in the midst of the worst pandemic the world has ever seen during this century, they began to feed immigrants, unemployed families, elderly, children and all who needed a meal as far as their resources could take them. Kristina and Katherine envisioned a nonprofit that would take that small food business and pair it with a whole family approach, teaching and guiding people of all ages, how to access information, resources, and gain the support needed to overcome not just the challenges of the pandemic but attain the equitable quality of life that so many impoverished and grief-stricken communities’ desire.
Sowing for Health is all about sowing into the lives of people the resources needed to become physically, financially, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally healthy. Feeding those in need is not enough. Providing some help here and there is not enough. We must teach people how to access the resources they may not have known about or struggled to obtain because of complex systems that created barriers between them and a healthier life.
The Harvesters’ Courtyard
Our vision requires an expansive campaign to raise funds to open a business incubation retreat center. This center will teach and support people from under-resourced and impoverished communities to set goals, create plans, incorporate companies, as they seek to become leaders in their communities and pave the way to support others like themselves. The Harvesters’ Courtyard is about the people that have worked their lives for someone else desiring to inspire change but have been unable to overcome the complex bureaucracy of business start-up processes and licensing requirements. In this Courtyard, dreams will come to fruition and resources will have a direct impact on the futures of millions.