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Grant Funds Expand Capacity for the Kearsarge Area Food System
As backbone leaders of the FEED Coalition, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partners and Kearsarge Food Hub are thrilled to share that generous grant funding from the Helen Gurley Brown Foundation will help us significantly expand our regional food security efforts.
The grant will fund two positions to further efforts that increase local food access, enhance farmer support, and meaningfully distribute food that might otherwise go to waste.
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.
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.