Luca is an AmeriCorps member serving with the Harvest VISTA Program for food recovery initiatives. She is hosted by the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board in Portland, Oregon, where she is their Tribal Food Systems VISTA under the WEAVE-NW Program. Her year of service…
Harvest Against Hunger works as a connector and community collaborator to identify, address, and support the implementation of local efforts towards sustainable food systems, community food security, and reduction of food waste. Harvest Against Hunger houses programs, such as Farm to Community (F2C) and the…
Aleina is an Americorps VISTA member, serving as a Harvest Summer Associate to 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 service…
Katie is an AmeriCorps member coordinating the Kitsap Harvest Grow-a-Row program as the Grow-a-Row Coordinator VISTA. Kitsap Harvest is based in Bremerton but serves the whole Kitsap County area in Washington. Kitsap Harvest has an established gleaning program that is very fruit heavy and would…
The Green Urban Lunch Box was founded by Shawn Peterson after his elderly neighbor asked for help in her garden, since she wasn’t able to maintain it anymore. Thus began GULB’s Back-Farms program, which now connects volunteer Garden Apprentices with senior citizens to build, cultivate,…
Jordyn Egbert is the Harvest VISTA serving at City Fruit in Seattle, Washington. City Fruit is a non-profit organization that seeks to put Seattle’s urban orchard to its best and fullest use so that everyone in the community shares in the value of fruit. City…
Lorie Bonham serves as a Harvest VISTA at Concrete Jungle in Atlanta, GA, coordinating volunteers and emerging programs. Since its founding in 2009, Concrete Jungle has rescued and redirected 117,583 pounds of produce (470,335 servings) to hunger relief organizations in Georgia. They credit their success…
Fall Market Day at South Seattle College.
Gratitude to the Vashon community.