Rev. Hugh Farrish plants seeds to harvest goodwill.

After learning that Port Chester had no farmers’ market, the Mount Vernon pastor teamed up with the Port Chester/Town of Rye Council of Community Services to tend the fields to bring more than 2,500 low-income families farm-fresh vegetables each week during the growing season.

On Saturdays, the families, mostly Hispanic, leave God’s Green Market at St. Peter’s Church in Port Chester with squash, eggplant, corn, potatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, pole beans and peas.

The Westchester County Board of Health will award Farrish and the church the Distinguished Public Health Service Award today.

“My uncle gave me a tractor in North Carolina and I towed it home,” Farrish said about how he turned his love for gardening into farming. “I do all the plowing myself. This is out of love. Thoughts come. Revelations come. Everything you do is a sermon. The more you give, the more is given to you.”

Not only does it promote healthful eating in communities that have limited access to fresh vegetables, but it has connected volunteers from churches of different denominations and ethnic backgrounds.

Volunteers also travel together in the church van for the 80-minute drive to and from the Goshen farm to cut down on fossil fuel consumption.

More volunteers are needed for this year. Interested residents should call Ann Barringer Spaeth at the Council, 914-939-8055.