Eli serves as the Harvest VISTA Summer Associate at Making A Difference Foundation (MADF) in partnership with Eloise’s Cooking Pot Food Bank in Tacoma, Washington. MADF is a nonprofit, charitable organization with a noble mission: to make a difference in the lives of others, one person at…
Skyler Edwards serves as the Harvest VISTA Summer Associate at Concrete Jungle in Atlanta, Georgia. Concrete Jungle focuses on foraging, farming, and supporting food access across Georgia so that communities are well nourished in a world with no food waste. Skyler assists the operations team…
Avery is an Americorps Harvest VISTA Summer Associate member working for a Seattle non-profit called City Fruit. This ten-week summer program entails harvesting, cleaning, packing, and distributing fruit from residential and public fruit trees. Then, Avery helps distribute this fruit either to food banks and…
As a Harvest VISTA member in the AmeriCorps Harvest VISTA program at Elk Run Farm, Skye will be assisting in implementation of farm outreach and educational efforts, helping with all aspects of fruit and vegetable production and distribution, and upkeeping documentation of volunteer, harvest, and…
Jeanie Neumann is a Harvest VISTA AmeriCorps member serving at City Fruit as the Fundraising & Development Specialist VISTA in Seattle, Washington. Their project is focused on the development of a fundraising plan, aimed toward individual donors and City Fruit members; foundations, corporations, and government…
Ethan Cory is an AmeriCorps member serving at City Fruit as the Fundraising & Development Specialist VISTA in Seattle, Washington. Their project is focused on the development of a fundraising plan, aimed toward individual donors and City Fruit members; foundations, corporations, and government sources; and…
Aleina is an Americorps VISTA member, serving as a Harvest Summer Associate in the Gleaning Program at the Thurston County Food Bank (TCFB) in Olympia Washington. The Gleaning program connects with local growers to pick up their excess produce and distribute it to the many…
Marie-Yvonne is a VISTA Leader for the Harvest VISTA Program, which works in tandem with Harvest Against Hunger. The Harvest VISTA Program recruits and places Americorps VISTA members at local hunger relief agencies across the country. These members provide and create opportunities for produce collection,…
Kyleigh Humes served as a Summer Associate VISTA at Kitsap Harvest in Bremerton, Washington. She helped further Kitsap’s mission to connect “abundance to need by reducing food waste, nurturing community, and providing equitable access to fresh, locally grown food.” Below, Kyleigh reflects on her summer,…
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