After the Harvest KC

02/21/2025

Urban Produce Push KC is taking on the mission of After the Harvest. Please go like and follow the new page!

12/03/2024

This Giving Tuesday, let's address food access inequities! Did you know that 39 million Americans live in areas where they struggle to find fresh, healthy food (USDA Food Access Research Report)?

Your support can help bridge this gap and bring nutritious options to those who need them most. Join us in making a difference by donating today! Every dollar helps us reach communities in need and ensures that no one has to go without healthy food.👉 Click the link to donate and make an impact: https://uppkc.org/giving-tuesday/

12/03/2024

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, and we need your help to support UPP as we continue After the Harvest’s mission to fight against hunger in Kansas City! Here are three amazing stats about what we’ve accomplished together as After the Harvest:

1. We’ve rescued 32 million pounds of fresh produce since 2014. 🍏
2. We’ve provided 26 million meals to families in need. 🍽️
3. We’ve reduced carbon emissions by the equivalent of 405 cars on the road for a year. 🚗💨

Your donation helps us expand Urban Produce Push to 50 food-insecure zip codes, ensuring everyone has access to healthy food.👉 Ready to make a difference? Click here to donate: https://uppkc.org/giving-tuesday/

11/27/2024

Families grappling with food insecurity encounter elevated levels of toxic stress, struggle to meet basic needs, experience challenges in securing stable employment, and face difficulties in maintaining physical and mental well-being.

This Giving Tuesday, help bring Produce to the People by supporting one of our community's essential needs—access to healthy food. 🍏Click the link below to donate to UPP and help us bridge the gap in the food supply chain. We work closely with local farmers and food distributors to deliver fresh, nutrient-dense produce directly to pantries and food-insecure communities in Missouri and Kansas.

❤️Donate: https://uppkc.org/giving-tuesday/

Want to know more about UPP?
Click here: www.aftertheharvestkc.org/ath-to-upp

11/27/2024

Just as we reflect on the past year and look forward to the future, After the Harvest is reflecting on our decade-long legacy of feeding hungry people and looking forward to the next phase: After the Harvest will officially dissolve at the end of this year, and its mission will live on through Urban Produce Push (UPP).

UPP will focus on bridging gaps in the food supply chain by working closely with local farmers and food distributors to bring fresh, nutrient-dense produce directly to pantries and food-insecure communities in Missouri and Kansas. Please read the official announcement for more details on what this means for all of us as we move forward together. Thank you for your support over the past decade. We warmly invite you to join us as we carry on ATH’s mission to feed hungry people.

Learn more here:
aftertheharvestkc.org/ath-to-upp

11/26/2024

Shout out to our volunteers who really know how to TURNIP. This morning in freezing temps we harvested over 1500 pounds of (really big) turnips and nutritious greens. One of the largest turnips was over 8 pounds!

11/18/2024

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS: Thanksgiving is just around the corner and we need your help to rescue fresh turnips and greens from 2 local farms. These are our last gleanings of the 2024 season. Harvest will take place Thursday morning, November 21st, and Tuesday morning, November 26th; just north of the river, near World's of Fun and Ameristar. Please share with friends and family and sign up to join us in the field.
https://aftertheharvestkc.org/volunteer/gleaning-sign-up/

10/30/2024

Happy Halloween 🎃 Today we were so excited to again, as we have the past several years, be able to share pumpkins with the students at Operation Breakthrough! Located in 64109, Operation Breakthrough is one of our Urban Produce Push (UPP) partners. These beautiful, locally grown pumpkins are not only decorative, but nutritious too! 🎃

10/25/2024

We got to meet KC Wolf yesterday at KC Can Compost’s launch event! Look for the community smart can near you to dispose of your compost for free- they’re popping up across the metro!

https://kccancompost.com/kccansmartcanapp

09/26/2024

We really enjoyed being a part of this production!

🍎🥕 Meet After The Harvest, an incredible organization that gleans surplus fruits and vegetables from local farms to provide fresh produce to food banks in the Kansas City metro area! 🌱🥦 In Season 2, Episode 1 of My World Too, we take a closer look at how they’re fighting hunger and reducing food waste in the most inspiring way. 💚

Learn more about their work by watching the episode at PBS.org – link in bio!

09/26/2024

This morning, volunteers from LMV Automotive and Valley Companies joined us at Cider Hill Family Orchard to glean windfall apples. They did such a great job, that within the first hour, our van was already filled with 1500 pounds of apples and we were running out of space. Volunteer, George, from LMV jumped in to the rescue, and offered the use of his pickup truck to transport more apples, doubling the amount we could feasibly transport. In the end, we were able to gather over 3000 pounds of beautiful fresh apples to share with the community. Thanks so much to all of our volunteers and groups, we couldn't do it without you!