50 Businesses, 50 Solutions
Fueled By Kids is a nonprofit that was founded in 2016 by Mikol’s oldest sister, Grace, who is now a junior in college. She was at one of Mikol’s basketball games, when she started chatting to a social worker about food insecurity in the Manchester school system. Rather than just talking about the problem, Grace took action, starting a program that fed about 80 kids that year.
For five years, the non-profit Kearsarge Food Hub has existed with the purpose of helping strengthen connection to local foods in Bradford and the greater Kearsarge region. That takes place through a variety of means — Sweet Beet Market supplies the community with year-round locally-sourced foods; Sweet Beet Kitchen produces baked goods and preserves; while Sweet Beet Farm grows local foods using regenerative practices.
