LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Nonprofit Change Today, Change Tomorrow feeds west Louisville residents in more ways than one.

“This is a great way to give back to the community and serve the community and really make a true difference," said Valerie Little, who volunteers at its Feed the West program in the Portland neighborhood and its biweekly farmers market on Sundays. "A lot of people are agenda-focused, but Change Today, Change Tomorrow is action focused."

T'Von Terry, farmers market director, said the market brings food some people in the neighborhood may have never seen before.

“We only have two grocery stores in the west, and they're both — I don't want to say underdeveloped — but underserved," Terry said. "There's not a good amount of produce coming in, let alone of good quality."

At a time when federal grant funding is uncertain, the market received an anonymous $300,000 pledge. 

“We actually [were] having trouble, and thanks to the anonymous UK donor, we're not having trouble, at least for our farmers market," Terry said. "It's helping a lot [to] fight the food apartheid." 

Over the next six years, $50,000 will be disbursed each year, helping the nonprofit rely less on federal funding.

“It takes a weight off our shoulders, but it's just one piece of the big puzzle," Terry said. "We're not getting comfortable with it at all because there's still more work to be done." “It takes a weight off our shoulders, but it's just one piece of the big puzzle," Terry said. "We're not getting comfortable with it at all because there's still more work to be done." 

Change Today, Change Tomorrow's farmers market will be every other Sunday from May 4 through Oct. 5, 2025, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at California Park.

The market was just approved to accept SNAP benefits. It's also participating in the Kentucky Double Dollars program, an initiative that provides nutrition incentives to limited-resource families at farmers markets and stores.