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NATIONAL AG DAY AND “YEAR IN THE BUBBLE” – MARCH 26
CELEBRATING NATIONAL AG DAY
Tuesday, March 23 was National Ag Day, and Second Harvest celebrated its many agriculture partners that help ensure everyone across the Inland Northwest has access to fresh produce and locally grown food. This year, National Ag Day felt particularly important, as more families struggle to afford fresh, nutritious food. Northwest Agricultural Consultants – Soil and Plant Lab of Kennewick is proudly sponsoring National Agriculture Month, including National Ag Day, this year at Second Harvest’s Pasco hunger solution center. You can watch KAPP-KVEW’s coverage of National Ag Day here. Thank you to Second Harvest’s wonderful agriculture partners for your commitment to ending hunger in our community!
“YEAR IN THE BUBBLE”: SECOND HARVEST’S COVID-19 CRISIS RESPONSE CONTINUES
KXLY in Spokane recently featured Second Harvest in its “Year in the Bubble” series, which takes a look at how the Spokane community has been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Watch the video to learn more about Second Harvest’s response to the elevated need for food assistance in our community.
While the distribution of vaccines brings hope for an end to the pandemic, families will continue to feel the financial impacts of this crisis for months and years to come. If you’d like to help make sure everyone in our community has the food they need, you can sign up to volunteer or donate at 2-harvest.org. Second Harvest is immensely grateful to our many volunteers, donors and partners who have kept Second Harvest resilient over the last year.
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In The Kitchen: Food Waste Prevention Week – April 5
Earth Month is the perfect opportunity to reflect on our habits and how they impact the planet. We might think about how often we drive and take advantage of the nicer weather to bike to work, or maybe even grab some friends and family and find a river cleanup event for Earth Day. But did you know that you can make an impact without even leaving your house? In fact, reflecting on our cooking and grocery shopping habits has the potential to have a greater and long-lasting impact on our environment.
Gonzaga’s Dusty Stromer and Zilch: Teaming up to end hunger – March 29
Dusty Stromer understood from a young age that while his family had enough to eat, others in his circle were not so fortunate. Dusty had a courtside seat to food insecurity — he says that by age 10, he knew some of his friends came from households where food was not reliably available.
A freshman shooting guard on the men’s basketball team at Gonzaga University, Dusty recently got a close look at the fight against hunger by touring Second Harvest’s warehouse and helping to distribute free food through its Zilch program.
Grocery Rescue: Changing lives daily – March 22
Your visit to a local grocery store may seem like a routine, unimportant chore. That perfect strawberry, tomato or apple you select is made possible because different departments of your neighborhood store carefully maintain a standard for each product. But what happens when the banana is too green, or the strawberries are too ripe? That product is stranded and without rescue would find its way to the landfill. Thanks to stores partnering with Second Harvest’s Grocery Rescue program, that nutritious food is shared with partner agencies throughout the 26 counties in Eastern Washington and North Idaho served by Second Harvest.
Feeding Eastern Washington and North Idaho
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