You Can Still Win a Week in Paris

You can also help feed those in need, and maybe win a week in a Paris apartment, a year-long pastry course—and many more French-inspired prizes. Enter the Sweepstakes!

May 30, 2025 - 08:04

HiP Paris Blog founder Erica Berman moved from Paris to Maine looking for a more meaningful life, and eventually founded Veggies to Table, a grow-to-donate farm, to help end hunger in her community. Now, YOU can also help feed those in need, AND maybe win a week in a Paris apartment, a year-long pastry course—and many more French-inspired prizes. Enter Sweepstakes !

win a week in paris and help end hunger

It’s the final countdown to win a week in a Paris apartment and so much more! The Veggies to Table Paris Sweepstakes ends on June 8 at 11:59 pm. No one should have to choose between food and rent—ever. Enter and help Erica’s non-profit farm, Veggies to Table, feed the hungry and create joy with flowers. Veggies to Table believes that access to healthy food is a right, not a privilege. Bonne chance!

Grand Prize:

Week-long stay in a gorgeous Montmartre apartment w/balcony and panoramic views (Value: $2500)
Chauffeur to & from the airport with champagne & flowers upon arrival (Value: $250)
Private Parisian photoshoot with Love, Lou X (Value $350)
Two-hour walking tour in the Marais with Je T’Aime, Me Neither‘s Lily Heise (Value $300)
Walking tour of Paris with Sight Seeker’s Delight (Value: $150)
Lunch for two at classic French bistro Le Bon Georges (Value: $75)
Gift certificate for the charming Treize au Clubhouse (Value: $55)

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Paris apartment bedroom with queen bed, and fully-equipped kitchen! — Top: Eiffel Tower View – Palmyre Roigt
Above – Grand Prize apartment bedroom and kitchen – Loove Collective

Runner-up prizes include:

Year-long membership to Molly J. Wilkinson’s Online Pastry School + a signed copy of French Pastry Made Simple (Value: $300)
Gift card to the online French boutique Vivi et Margot, donated by Amy Thomas, the author of Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate) (Value: $100)
Signed book by famed chef and food writer Ruth Reichl (Value: $16.00)
A Vintage France clutch from Parisian handbag designer Kasia Dietz (Value: $50)
A signed limited edition Paris print by artist John Donohue (Value: $95)

Kate on the farm with organic peas, young kids with seeds to plant donated by Veggies to Table.

Kate on the farm with peas/ Kids at the Y: Erica Berm an

1 in 5 children (1 in 7 adults) don’t have enough to eat in Maine on a daily basis. Food and housing costs continue to rise and more local families, children, and elderly are at risk of going to bed and waking up hungry. Help us put food on our hungry neighbors’ tables.

$50 feeds a child for a week
$100 feeds an adult for a week
$250 feeds a child for five weeks
$500 feeds a couple for three weeks
$1,250 feeds a family of four for a month
$2,500 feeds a family of four for two months
$10,000 feeds a single parent and two children for a year
$14,000 feeds a family of four for just about a year

(estimated annual cost to feed a family of four in Maine: $14,314* according to the Economic Policy Institute)

All proceeds will help Veggies to Table grow and donate even more farm-fresh veggies and joyful flowers to local friends and neighbors living with hunger, while bringing YOU to Paris or Paris to YOU!

A view of Parisian rooftops from a window of the grand prize apartment in Montmartre — Rooftop View from the apartment – Loove Collective

You Can’t see Hunger

This is your chance to win a week-long stay in a Paris apartment with a balcony and panoramic views, tours, French restaurants, and more.

All proceeds will help Veggies to Table grow and donate even more top-quality organic produce and flowers for local folks in need of food and joy. No one should have to go to bed, or wake up, hungry.

Merci beaucoup to those who have already donated. You are making a difference in the lives of those in need. Bonne chance et merci à tous! Enter to win!

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