From Lee Lor, SSC has used their KCFS funding to purchase zucchini, chard, kale, green beans, and dill. One market day, Lee Lor–also being a flower farm like many other of the area’s Hmong farms–even offered a donation of dahlias!
“It just warmed the hearts of our students as we gave them a small bunch of flowers as they first checked in, prior to getting their produce bags!!”
While it’s confirmed that the campus will continue remote operations through the upcoming fall term, through navigating the ever-changing hunger relief landscape, VISTA Maddie and SSC now have a breadth of food access resources and connections at their disposal–most recently working directly with Farmstand Local Foods, a local food aggregator and distributor that’s been involved in delivering to other KCFS partners and the Good Food Bags already–to supplement the more variable farmers market gleaning. After all, as Harvest Against Hunger has seen in its years of experience coordinating farm-to-food bank networks across King County and Washington state, diversity is key to adaptability!