Share the Harvest

Whether you live in the city or the suburbs, someone in your community is struggling to provide their family with enough nourishment. Share the Harvest Gift Project is a community response to the social injustices of hunger and malnutrition in metropolitan Washington, DC. You can be part of the solution by supporting an effort to provide healthy, local produce to your neighbors in need.

Share the Harvest Gift Project enables the Capital Area Food Bank to partner with local farms, farmers markets, community food projects, produce delivery companies and gardens to provide nutritious and delicious fresh produce to low-income families and underserved communities throughout the metro area.

We work with partners that prioritize growing practices that promote sustainability and environmental stewardship. We believe it’s critical that people have healthy food to eat and a thriving environment for future generations.

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Produce should be the backbone of the food bank because we’re working with people with compromised immune systems. They can’t afford to shop at Whole Foods or YES organic market. 90% of our clients couldn’t afford produce, and don’t get produce from other sources.

—Larnell Carr, Damien Ministries

Produce Alone Isn’t Enough

The Capital Area Food Bank couples fresh produce with hands-on nutrition education. This combined approach gives people access to good food and the know-how to use it!

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After a nutrition education class that focused on calcium, students harvested fresh edamame from the garden. The youth filled a bowl with beans and added some water. Next, they put them in the microwave for a few minutes, viola’! the perfect calcium rich snack! The next week Quantre asked, ‘could we eat some more of those lumpy green things we had because they tasted so good.’

—Susan Topping, Capital Area Food Bank