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A Regional Food Recovery and Distribution Program
Across the Kearsarge Region, surplus food and hungry neighbors exist side by side, separated not by distance but by the absence of infrastructure.
Crops go unharvested, produce is discarded, prepared meals are thrown away and families go to bed hungry.
FEED Kearsarge hosts successful 1st Annual Food Security Summit!
How do we move from feeding people to ending hunger to building resilient local and regional food systems that nourish all of us?
This is the question we gathered to explore at FEED Kearsarge’s very first Food Security Summit. 120 attendees representing 40 businesses and organizations came together, including farms, food pantries, healthcare and social services, education, land use and conservation, and policy and advocacy for an important day of learning and connection.
Food Security Report
Kearsarge Food Hub partnered with Dartmouth Health’s Center for Advancing Rural Health Equity to create a Food Security Report focused on the Kearsarge Region.
This report outlines insights from distinct but interconnected areas related to regional food security, including context and demographics, food access and the food environment, food assistance, nutrition and diet-related health outcomes, and the local food system.
A Crisis of Food Affordability
FEED Kearsarge is a local coalition working to solve this problem together—and you can help.
Last fall we faced temporary lapse in SNAP benefits from the government shutdown, affecting 76,000 residents in New Hampshire. Although SNAP has been reinstated, cuts from the One Big Beautiful Bill are compromising food assistance for many Granite Staters. Yet, for all food buyers there is a larger, ongoing issue: a crisis of food affordability. This crisis is leading to widespread food insecurity and economic anxiety for many people.
Food Insecurity is Hitting Home in our Community
FEED Kearsarge is a local coalition working to solve this problem together—and you can help.
Whether or not neighbors have enough food to eat is not a partisan issue. Access to food is a basic human right and food security is a matter of local and national security; when neighbors are hungry, entire communities suffer. This is not some problem “out there”— people face hunger every day right here in the Kearsarge region.
The truth is, many people are doing everything they can to make ends meet but the math just isn’t adding up as the cost of living rises across the board.