Hesed House

11/18/2025

The Market is restocked with so much local goodness, with even more to come this week.

Starting tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday) from our friends at Flower Cow Farm, we will have a delivery of freshly processed chicken. This batch of pasture-raised chickens represents months of early mornings, pasture moves, and giving their birds everything they need to thrive: sunshine, clean ground, fresh grass, and organic, soy-free feed.

This week you can stock up on:
• Whole Birds — $20
• Breasts (2 pk) — $12
• Thighs (4 pk) — $10
• Drumsticks (4 pk) — $8
• Wings (6 pk) — $12
• Tenders (10 pk) — $15
• Hearts (1 lb) — $5
• Livers (1 lb) — $5
• Feet (10 pk) — $10

Every cut carries the flavor of a bird raised right — outdoors, moving, dust-bathing, just being a chicken. It makes all the difference.

When you shop The Market, you support small local businesses like Flower Cow Farm and help build a thriving local economy. Join us in shopping local and shopping small this holiday season.

11/16/2025

Ready for the Moonlight Market this Saturday? There will be good food, good music, and good shopping to kick off the holidays!

Want to reserve a table under the lights to kick back and enjoy the evening? We have a handful of tables available for reservation. Your reservation gives you a table for eight AND helps offset event production costs. Email acleveland@hesedhousewtx.org to reserve your table.

Let's kick off the holiday season by shopping small and shopping local!

11/14/2025

The Market is restocked with LOTS of restocks from our vendors including red potatoes and sweet potatoes, fresh eggs from and gorgeous fresh picked lettuce from the Becker family.

All of our vendors are busy preparing for the Moonlight Market and holiday shoppers. We can’t wait to see what all comes in for your holiday shopping pleasure.

Oh, and keep your 👀 open for some FUN market news coming soon!

We love building a space where we can gather, grow, and nurture creativity, vision, and entrepreneurship.

Let’s keep growing! The best is yet to come ❤️

11/13/2025

Big CONGRATS to Quintin Zukywich and his team for taking home BIG money this week for his amazing ribs. You can catch Quintin cooking at the Moonlight Market next Saturday.

We’ll have good food, good music, and good shopping to kick off the holiday season.

And BIG THANK YOU to Equipment Share for partnering with us to make this a well lit and safe event.

We welcome individual and corporate sponsorships. Want to help us keep bringing fun, family friendly events to the community? Send us a message or give us a call. We’d love to chat!

11/10/2025

Gundermann Acres Farm Box orders are extended until TUESDAY at 12:00pm! And cozy up with us for Craft & Comfort Cinema Club on Friday evening. Please RSVP to help us plan!

We are so so amazed and excited to partner with all the individuals and organizations showing up, working together and finding creative ways to keep our community fed! We welcome anyone interested in working together. Reply to this email to start a conversation.

11/06/2025

We’re excited to welcome Tami Harrell’s activity books to our children’s section in The Market. Tami is a BELOVED retired teacher who taught lots of little Bulldogs throughout her time at Newgulf Elementary in Boling ISD. We welcome Tami to our market vendor family and look forward to scheduling some story times with her very soon!

11/05/2025

MARKET UPDATE:
*No chicken salad deliveries from our South Texas Roost friends since they sold their restaurant 😔We will work on another option so stay tuned!

*We have a new delivery of beautiful hydroponic lettuce!

*we now carry the most delicious jarred cajeta (caramel) from our friends 🤤It is amazing!

* We are stocked with homemade noodles, jasmine rice, and Lamb’s cornmeal products to make your favorite comfort meals on the cold nights coming soon.

*we have several bags of fresh cracked pecans from ButterCup Pecans and will have more to come for all of your baking needs.

*Want to donate good, local foods to a family in need? You can do it at checkout. Just say “I’d like to add a donation.”

And don’t forget to save your receipts and drop them at for the chance to win some great prizes!

11/04/2025

We had a great morning with our new friends from Eagle Lake!

Eagle Lake is in great hands with these amazing women working together to strengthen their community. We are excited to walk alongside them in the important work of building community resilience.

Thank you to Reverend Margarita Arroyo of Christ Episcopal Church of Eagle Lake for making these connections.

We truly believe every community has tremendous assets that only they can activate for the greater good of the community. We love sharing what we continue to learn about community development and resilience, and seeing the power that comes in taking ownership of community transformation through deep relationships.

Eagle Lake, you are better together. Have fun and keep growing! ❤️

11/04/2025

Calling Wharton County Organizations and Agencies:

Hesed House was founded in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, and from the beginning has worked to meet critical needs in order to build a more resilient community. That means years of long-term flood recovery to pandemic, winter storm and hurricane response. Now, we face a growing crisis: many of our most vulnerable neighbors are without adequate food.

This includes families with medically complex children, medically fragile adults, foster children, pregnant mothers, and the elderly. This could be your neighbor, coworker, or even someone in your own family.

We are inspired by the community's efforts to address this. To maximize our impact, we are calling on agencies and organizations to join us in gathering our resources and collaborating for a coordinated response.

**This is a call for local churches, agencies, organizations, and businesses to join a coordinated effort.**

UPDATED POST!
Thank you to the following organizations and businesses for jumping on board to help meet the immediate and possibly long-term need of our Wharton County families:

Flower Cow Farm
First United Methodist Church
St. Thomas Episcopal Church Outreach Committee
Just Do It Now
Endeavors
Abundant Life Church

For Organizations: If your group wants to collaborate on food security, please complete the form in the link. You will receive an email invitation to a virtual/in-person meeting.

For Individuals: If you have resources like time, money, or food, please donate directly to a local food pantry or nonprofit or help someone you know who is in need. If you choose to donate to Hesed House online or in-person, please add the note "Food Security."

By working together, we can work strategically, stretch our resources, and ensure no one in our community goes hungry. We truly believe we are better together. Thank you for proving that time and again. https://www.hesedhousewtx.org/wharton-county-coordinated-food-response

11/03/2025

Planning to be at Hesed House this week? Stop by The Market for some of the most beautiful cracked pecans you’ll ever see. These award winning beauties are grown right outside of Wharton at ButterCup Pecans on the Circle A Farm, owned and operated by John and Bertha Abraham.

These three pound bags are $21 and they don’t get any fresher than this. We will stay stocked with cracked pecans throughout the season and then they’ll be gone. So get them while they last!

You can also meet Bertha and see some of the impressive awards her orchard is collecting at the Moonlight Market on November 22nd.

When you shop at our nonprofit market, you are supporting community development by and with our own community members. It doesn’t get more LOCAL than that.

11/01/2025

November is here and our first ever Moonlight Market is right around the corner!

We have some great vendors lined up including Zuk’s BBQ! If you missed out on Quintin’s smoked turkey sandwiches the last time he was in Wharton, don’t miss them this time! He is also offering presales that you can pick up at the Moonlight Market.

We will be highlighting more of our vendors throughout November, but save the date for good food, holiday shopping, music, and fun under the lights.

Want to help sponsor this event? We’d love to put your name on the flyer and reserve a table just for you to enjoy the evening. Send us a message or give us a call!

10/31/2025

The Market is open and Frances welcomes trick or treaters! We wish you a safe and fun Halloween!