Field to Foodbank

Field to Foodbank We are the Field to Foodbank interens, Brittany DeMario, Maddy Levin and Heather Wautier

With the recent economic crisis many have found themselves without enough food and have been utilizing their local food banks. One in eleven families in Wisconsin are now food insecure and receive aid from a local food pantry. Many of these household have working parents who are high school or college educated. Since there is a rising need for food, food banks are constantly looking for new source

s of donations. A recent idea is to talk with local Wisconsin farmers to acquire donations of fresh produce straight from the fields. We, as the Field to Foodbank interns, are organizing the logistics to make this idea possible. The Field to Foodbank interns are undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and are studying food science and dietetics. We are committed to solving local social justice issues associated with food insecurity. We are working with Second Harvest Foodbank, along with various other food manufacturers and suppliers to make this goal a reality. We hope to get further support from local farmers and business so those that those in need in southern Wisconsin will receive food from their community. This summer we are in the process of completing:
• Crop profiles of local fruits and vegetables
• Surveys to gauge participant enthusiasm and the logistics of donations
• Different media to advertise the Field to Foodbank cause
• A case study involving the donation of 5 acres of carrots

In Berkeley, CA there is abundance of fruit trees grown. A community member, realized the fruit that was not being picke...
06/02/2011

In Berkeley, CA there is abundance of fruit trees grown. A community member, realized the fruit that was not being picked and was rotting. To combat this problem North Berkeley Harvest was created. North Berkeley Harvest consists of gleaners who volunteer to harvest the surplus of fruit and donate it to foodbanks, centers for the elderly, and other nonprofit organizations.

A small but expanding movement of backyard urban gleaners voluntarily harvest surplus fruit and then donate it to food banks, centers for the elderly and other nonprofit organizations.

06/02/2011

The inmates at Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm work on a farm that provides produce to twelve prison locations. The farm then donates surplus crops to the Foodbank of Alaska. Since 2003 the Correctional Farm in Matanuska-Susitna Valley has contributed more than 171,000 lbs of food.

Maury Islands families receive organic crops that are harvested, year round, from the Vashon Maury Community Food B...
06/02/2011

Maury Islands families receive organic crops that are harvested, year round, from the Vashon Maury Community Food Bank. The field used for crop production was obtained through a land donation by Chris and Amy Robinson. The field is maintained through thousands of dollars of grant money.

VASHON ISLAND - No family wants to go hungry, and now an unlikely place struggling to feed the community is thinking outside the box to solve the problem....

06/02/2011

We have been researching different field to foodbank programs, we have discovered that three basic types of field to foodbank programs. The types include: food banks that produce their own produce, food banks that accept donations from outside farms, and food banks that accept produce donated from the general public. We will post several link to each type of foodbank program each day.

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