Grow It Forward Community Food Center

Grow It Forward Community Food Center Grow It Forward improves access to healthy local food by:
1. Teaching others how to grow and prepare their own food.
3.

Grow It Forward is a non-profit organization providing people in need with dignified access to good food, along with opportunities to grow, cook, share, and advocate for it. Growing together at our community garden, and expanding school, private, and indoor garden spaces.
2. Feeding good food to our neighbors in need.
4. Connecting our community to local food producers. Thank you to our many missi

on-critical partnering organizations, supporters, volunteers, and community members who recognize Grow It Forward as the non-profit community leader in Manitowoc County feeding the immediate need and working towards ending future hunger!!!

☀️ It’s a beautiful day for the Farmers Market! 🥬Fresh food, local vendors, and great people!What more could you ask for...
05/30/2026

☀️ It’s a beautiful day for the Farmers Market! 🥬

Fresh food, local vendors, and great people!
What more could you ask for? 💚

Come stop by and say hi!

💚 Need a little extra help this week? We’re here for you. 💚Grow It Forward’s Food Pantry is here to serve individuals an...
05/29/2026

💚 Need a little extra help this week? We’re here for you. 💚

Grow It Forward’s Food Pantry is here to serve individuals and families in our community with care, compassion, and dignity — because everyone deserves access to healthy food.

🥕 Food Pantry Open:
📅 Thursday & Friday
🕑 2:00 PM – 4:45 PM

📍 1501 Marshall Street, Manitowoc
📞 920-645-9467

✅ Appointments preferred
🚶 Walk-ins welcome
💚 Confidential & dignified service

Our pantry offers a variety of healthy foods to help support individuals and families through the week.

Income Guidelines (Gross Household Income Before Taxes):

• 1 person: Up to $31,920/year ($2,660/month)
• 2 people: Up to $43,280/year ($3,607/month)
• 3 people: Up to $54,640/year ($4,553/month)
• 4 people: Up to $66,000/year ($5,500/month)
• 5 people: Up to $77,360/year ($6,447/month)
• 6 people: Up to $88,720/year ($7,393/month)
• 7 people: Up to $100,080/year ($8,340/month)
• 8 people: Up to $111,400/year ($9,287/month)
➕ Each additional household member: add $11,360/year

No proof of income is required. Eligibility is based on self-declaration, meaning households determine eligibility themselves.

Healthy food. Dignified access. Community support. 💚

Please share to help neighbors who may need support.

🥬🌱 Farmers Market Saturday is almost here! 🌱🥬Join us tomorrow from 8 AM-1 PM for fresh produce, local vendors, handmade ...
05/29/2026

🥬🌱 Farmers Market Saturday is almost here! 🌱🥬

Join us tomorrow from 8 AM-1 PM for fresh produce, local vendors, handmade goods, delicious finds, and community connection in downtown Manitowoc 💚

Be sure to stop by the Grow It Forward & Harmony Café booth while you’re there! We’ll have:

🥤 Cold-pressed juice
🫐 Fresh bakery scones
⚡ Energy bites
🥬 A variety of our hydroponic lettuce
🌱 And more!

Every purchase helps support Grow It Forward’s mission of increasing access to fresh, healthy food in our community—one seed, one meal, one neighbor at a time.

Come say hi, stock up on some goodness, and support local! 💚

We love being part of your special events! 🥰From our client, Julie:You and your team did such an amazing job for us las...
05/29/2026

We love being part of your special events! 🥰

From our client, Julie:

You and your team did such an amazing job for us last night. Lots of great comments about the food last night (and again today from our staff who are getting a delicious brunch at the moment!)

GIF is a GEM in our community and we love working with you guys and supporting your great work and man, did you deliver last night.

Have a great weekend and thanks again to your whole team.

🌽❤️ Abundance grows when we give together. ❤️🌽At Grow It Forward, fresh, healthy food doesn’t appear by accident, it gro...
05/28/2026

🌽❤️ Abundance grows when we give together. ❤️🌽

At Grow It Forward, fresh, healthy food doesn’t appear by accident, it grows through community.

Every pantry visit, community meal, weekend kids' meal, fresh vegetable harvested, and family supported begins with people who believe that good food should be shared, not scarce.

That’s why we created the Cornucopia Society, a community of monthly donors helping keep fresh, healthy food flowing every single day.

When you join the Cornucopia Society, your monthly gift helps provide:

🥕 Fresh, healthy food for neighbors in need
🍽️ Community meals served with dignity
🎒 Weekend meals for local children
🌱 Local produce grown and shared through our gardens and hydroponic farm
❤️ Stability that helps Grow It Forward serve our community year-round

Give any amount monthly to any Grow It Forward fund and help us create lasting impact--one meal, one neighbor, one act of generosity at a time.

🌽 Our goal: 100 monthly donors in 100 days.

Join today:
https://grow-it-forward.networkforgood.com/projects/260732-2026-cornucopia-society

Because when we give together, abundance grows. 🌱

💚 THANK YOU, COMMUNITY 💚In times of challenge, our community shows up for one another.Thanks to the incredible support o...
05/27/2026

💚 THANK YOU, COMMUNITY 💚

In times of challenge, our community shows up for one another.

Thanks to the incredible support of our partners, donors, volunteers, and community, Grow It Forward and the Two Rivers Hunger Coalition were able to provide emergency food assistance to households impacted by extended power outages and recent weather-related challenges in the Two Rivers area.

Together, families received emergency food items including Lamers Dairy milk, Humpty Dumpty Eggs, cheese, Pine River Dairy butter, frozen fruit, shelf-stable foods, and hamburger from Mistfis Homegrown to help bridge a difficult moment.

A heartfelt THANK YOU to Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin, Hunger Task Force, Inc., the Two Rivers Hunger Coalition, and generous Grow It Forward donors for helping make this emergency response possible. Because of your support, neighbors facing uncertainty had access to food when they needed it most.

And to our volunteers, staff, and everyone who helped spread the word—thank you for showing what community care looks like. 💚

One seed, one meal, one neighbor at a time.

🌱 Wednesdays are harvest days at Grow It Forward! 🌱Every Wednesday, our team and volunteers harvest fresh produce, trans...
05/27/2026

🌱 Wednesdays are harvest days at Grow It Forward! 🌱

Every Wednesday, our team and volunteers harvest fresh produce, transplants seedlings, and plants new seeds in our hydroponic farm - ensuring healthy, locally grown food keeps moving from seed to table.

This week’s harvest is already looking beautiful and will be ready for our Thursday and Friday food pantry distributions, and available for sale at our cafe and farmers market stand - bringing fresh greens directly to neighbors throughout our community.

🥬 Fresh, healthy food grown right here at the Community Food Center - ready for our neighbors.

What makes our hydroponic farm special is that it allows us to grow nutritious produce year-round, helping support our pantry, community meal, and café with fresh food even when Wisconsin weather says otherwise.

Every seed planted today becomes nourishment tomorrow - one seed, one meal, one neighbor at a time. 💚

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1501 Marshall Street
Manitowoc, WI
54220

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+19206459467

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