Our MISSION & VISION

Our Vision is simple--We want to change the way we feed the hungry.

OUR Mission

  • Provide fresh fruits and vegetables to homeless shelters, soup kitchens, senior centers, and food banks in Dauphin and Lebanon Counties, and

  • Encourage at-risk children and their families to make healthier food choices, increasing their access to fresh, local food and teaching them to live more sustainably.

OUR BELIEF

  • Poverty should never be an obstacle to eating fresh fruits and vegetables.

How we address immediate needs

  • We buy fresh fruit and vegetables, local when possible or donated from local gardeners--and distribute that produce free to soup kitchens, shelters, food pantries, and senior centers.

How we work on long-term solutions to the conditions that perpetuate poverty

  • Good nutrition is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for attaining and maintaining good health. Good health is a necessary condition for being able to work gainfully, particularly in the manual occupations in which people living in multi-generational poverty are most likely--but not necessarily--are able to find employment.

  • We commit ourselves to developing and conducting educational programs for families and children to actively engage them in generating enthusiasm about eating local, fresh food and living sustainably.