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Hopelink Harvest

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Hopelink Harvest

Everyone deserves access to healthy food. You can help. Why does increasing access to healthy food matter?

Sno-Valley Harvest was founded at Hopelink in 2011 in partnership with Rotary First Harvest and AmeriCorps*VISTA. The partnership provided three years of funding to support AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteers who collaborated with Hopelink staff and community partners to found and grow the program. Over 109,000 pounds of produce was collected and distributed at Hopelink and other local food banks over the

first three years of the program. With the end of AmeriCorps*VISTA funding for Sno-Valley Harvest in 2014, Hopelink is proud to take on full ownership of the program in 2015 and looks forward to expanding the program’s operations and impact in coming years under the new name Hopelink Harvest. The United States Department of Agriculture defines food insecurity as “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.”

In Washington, 14.6 percent of households experienced food insecurity, with 6.1 percent of households falling within the “very low food security” category. Food insecurity is associated with poor dietary intake among seniors and younger adults, and has a variety of negative impacts, particularly related to health and the ability for children to learn in school. By providing a consistent and direct source of fresh and locally grown produce, the Hopelink Harvest program is a critical component of ensuring that all members of our community have access to healthy food. Our volunteers have fun and learn about food and farming while serving their community. Throughout the growing season, gleaning events are scheduled to harvest produce donated by area farms. Community and business groups, as well as individual volunteers, are welcome to get involved.

10/21/2022

Absolutely loving these gorgeous veggies we received from Sound Sustainable Farms! Grown right down the road and now being given out at our Hopelink Kirkland market; come get yours today. And a huge shout out to the Washington State Department of Agriculture and Harvest Against Hunger for our incredible farm purchasing grants where we can support local farmers and give out the best Washington grown produce in our markets! 🙌🥦🥬🌶

09/15/2022

It’s definitely tomato season! We had a tremulously successful glean with First Interstate Bank at Food Bank Farm! Over 1,200 pounds of tomatoes and bell peppers picked in 2 hours! Now being distributed to our clients across the county. ❤️🍅🫑💪 and a shout out to One Leaf Farm for more gorgeous heirloom tomatoes!

08/16/2022

It was such a pleasure to host our CEO Dr. Cushinberry and our Communications and EDI teams at Food Bank Farm last week! So much fun to be had, all while picking gorgeous produce for our clients. Truly a win/win all around!

07/22/2022

Maddie Price from Harvest Against Hunger and I had the chance today to go to the Farm Bill Listening Session hosted by local congresswoman Dr. Kim Schrier at Remlinger Farms with Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, both from the House Committee on Agriculture. It was so inspiring to hear from so many farmers, ranchers, dairies, and hunger relief organizations this morning. We then had the chance to join the Congresswomen on a farm tour Local Roots Farm and get to express how much the farm purchasing grants we receive to buy local produce for our markets mean to our clients and our farmers and how amazing it is that we can support local farmers financially, while also getting the best quality produce available in our agriculturally rich Valley for people in need. A truly inspiring day!

07/15/2022

We had so much fun at the grand opening of the new Feriton Spur Park in Kirkland! We are so thankful and excited about the wonderful generosity and hard work of Google, SMR Builders & Developers and Seattle Urban Farm Company. The produce from the gorgeous raised bed garden in the park will be going to our Hopelink-Kirkland! Thank you all for your dedication to your community and helping us alleviate hunger! ❤️🥕🌽

06/23/2022

It has been a long and cold spring, but things are finally warming up and our gardens are loving the sun! We are so thankful for our amazing garden volunteers and all their hard work growing and harvesting fresh produce for our Hopelink Markets. Elizabeth here harvested some kale, lovage, sage, mint and green onions from the Redmond Garden on the first true day of summer and we are so excited to have her and our other volunteers’ enthusiasm and dedication to the garden. We couldn’t do it without you!! ❤️🥕❤️

Also, the first official glean of the year is on Monday at Oxbow Farm and Conservation Center! To sign up or for more details go to https://hopelink.volunteerhub.com

Hope to see you on the fields soon!

04/14/2022

Thank you for the wonderful eggs, Carnation Farms! It is truly special to be able to provide the highest quality local eggs in our Carnation food bank down the road!

04/06/2022

A huge thank you to our garden volunteers for taking such great care of our community garden in Carnation! Many improvements made and more to come! You rock Amy and Anaya!!!

03/19/2022

Lyndsay, our Carnation Market Supervisor, and I had a great time at the Snoqualmie Valley Seed Exchange! What a great day to swap seeds and knowledge, and encourage local gardeners to grow food for our food banks. Your surplus and bumper crops are always appreciated as fresh produce is always in high demand! Here’s to the start of another bountiful spring! ! 🌿

02/11/2022

Even in the winter, our local farm partners are bringing us delicious and nutritious veggies! Thank you so much Steel Wheel Farm for this amazing produce! Now, who wants some daikon?

11/20/2021

And that’s a wrap for gleaning! What an incredible season it was! We gleaned 28,538.5 pounds from 5 farm partners, over 44 gleans and 21 types of produce. Thank you to all our incredible farm partners and volunteers. You really knocked it out of the park this year!

10/27/2021

A huge shout out to Bob's Corn Maze and Pumpkin Farm for the nearly 7,000 pounds of gorgeous squash we gleaned today!!!

Address

31957 E Commercial Street
Carnation, WA
98014

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 5pm
Thursday	8:30am - 5pm
Friday	8:30am - 5pm

Telephone

(425) 346-3581

Website

http://hopelink.org/take-action/hopelink-harvest

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Growing Connections to Fresh Foods. Hopelink Harvest was founded in 2011 [originally “SnoValley Harvest”] in partnership with Rotary First Harvest and AmeriCorps*VISTA members. This partnership provided three years of funding to initiate collaboration between Hopelink and local farmers, to local produce could be gleaned to Hopelink food banks.

Learn more about Rotary First Harvest: www.firstharvest.org

In the first 6 years, 220,000+ pounds of produce was collected from local farms and distributed through Hopelink’s five food banks. Hundreds of thousands of additional pounds have also been collected from local farmers markets and home + community gardeners.

Find your local Farmers Market: www.pugetsoundfresh.org/markets By growing connections to fresh and locally grown produce, the Hopelink Harvest program aims to ensure that all members of our community have access to nutritious food. Our volunteers have fun and learn about food and farming while serving their community. Throughout the growing season, gleaning events are scheduled to harvest produce donated by local farmers. Community and business groups, as well as individual volunteers, are welcome to get involved!