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Ag Day honors agricultural producers and their invaluable efforts to feed American families. We are doing our part to celebrate by giving the fruits of this labor a home.
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In the 1970s, major agricultural innovations allowed us to exponentially increase crop yields. This time period, known as the Green Revolution, expanded the use of genetic engineering, precision agriculture, chemical fertilizers, and incentivized the overproduction of certain crops through federal subsidies. But instead of this food abundance leading to a hunger free world, we live in a world where this food surplus is wasted.
Nearly 1/3rd of it, every single year.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 30% of global food loss occurs at the agricultural production and harvest stage before the produce even leaves the farm. Click on a dot below to learn more.
We believe there will be a day in our lifetime when everyone has access to food with consistency and dignity.
Lettuce say that again, everyone! We provide food access for all: food banks & pantries, churches, trade unions, health clinics, tribal governments, senior centers, the list goes on!
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Make no waste. Leave no trace! It’s easy to forget how much energy goes into producing the food we eat. That’s why when we recover food, Farmlink makes the most of all the energy imputed – from the water to grow a head of cabbage, to the fuel to run a farmer’s truck!
A truckload of produce is like a ticking time bomb; each hour and day is critical for a successful recovery. Farmlink meets this challenge head-on. The Farmlink Food team can deliver a donation within 24-48 hours, whereas traditional food banking may take 3-21 days to deliver.
Our network of transportation and logistics partners gives us national coverage, allowing us to recover surplus food at any stage of the food supply chain regardless of quantity or location.
Food insecurity rates for African American, Latinx and Indigenous families are disproportionally high. We offset the transportation costs food banks may have to pay so that every community has increased opportunity to nutritious produce.
We advocate to increase the accessibility of current tax benefits to encourage surplus food donation, alongside implementing new tax incentives to increase access to nutritious food for all.
Research shows that access to nutritious food increases your life expectancy by 10 years. It is our mission to ensure no one goes without the food they need.
Farmlink gets a call from our farming partners that they have perfectly good produce that would be thrown away.
Farmlink coordinates the logistics between the farm and food bank. We cover the cost of trucking and transporting the rescued produce.
Fresh, nutrient dense vegetables and fruits arrive at partner food banks who organize distribution to other community partners or directly to those in need.
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Families around the country enjoy this nutritious food that otherwise would have gone to waste.
In the onset of the pandemic, we got together a small group of friends to send food to our local food bank.
We rented uhauls that we drove ourselves and completed our first shipment in April 2020. Fast forward six months and hundreds of students would ban together to move over 10 million lbs of nutritious produce nationwide.
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