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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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From The Kitchen: Cooking with dried beans, lentils and peas – March 8
Have you ever received dried goods, such as beans, lentils or split peas, and felt stumped on how to use them? Cooking with dried goods can seem daunting, especially if you’re used to using canned varieties. However, dried beans, lentils and split peas are affordable and often found in food pantries, so cooking with them is a great skill to gain confidence in. Continue reading for some tips and tricks on how to prepare dried ingredients and gain some cooking inspiration from Second Harvest recipes that utilize them.
National Agriculture Month: Celebrating Ag Partners and Friends – March 1
We take immense pleasure throughout the year in celebrating our agriculture partners and friends. But during National Agriculture Month, we take extra measures to recognize their continued support, contributions and commitment to Second Harvest’s mission of serving people facing hunger.
Our ag partners range from small, local farms to large industry farms, livestock operations, and the processing and manufacturing plants that support them.
Why I support Second Harvest: A donor’s story – February 23
Nothing is more important than having food on the table. To state the obvious, food—like shelter—is something without which we cannot survive. Second Harvest thus quite literally provides a lifeline for those whom my wife and I cannot feed directly. And it has done so for the nearly 40 years that we have supported Second Harvest. During this period we have seen not even a hint that their mission is diminishing in importance. On the contrary, the organization seems to be throwing out more and more lifelines to those in our midst who are in danger of sinking.
Feeding Eastern Washington and North Idaho
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