Harvest Against Hunger

Our three farm to community (f2c) programs (farm to food pantry, king county farmers share and the growing for good partnership with pcc community markets and seattle neighborhood farmers markets) cultivate new partnerships to connect hunger relief organizations with small to mid-scale growers across washington. We provide technical support, ongoing management and funding to hunger relief organizations to purchase produce directly from local growers at wholesale (or lower) prices, which allows hunger relief organizations to focus on securing culturally relevant and nutrient dense produce that is otherwise difficult to provide and small to mid-scale growers to build their businesses. These relationships result in robust local farm economies, which ultimately strengthen communities - particularly rural and traditionally underserved communities.

Through our capacity-building programs, we award refrigeration capacity grants to hundreds of local food pantries and other hunger relief organizations to enhance their capacity to safely and effectively handle and store perishable food items like produce, meat and dairy. We also provide refurbished computers to hunger relief partners that need additional technology resources.

Our harvest vista program places full-time americorps vista members at hunger relief organizations, mainly in underserved and marginalized communities, to develop produce recovery and gleaning programs as well as organizational capacity like fundraising, volunteer management and recruiting and other needed program activities.