Hope’s Harvest RI

With a mini grant from the GFRI,  Hope’s Harvest has created a satellite location to store harvest supplies, decreasing travel time and increasing time for gleaning productivity. 

Hope’s Harvest RI, founded by Eva Agudelo, mobilizes volunteers to rescue food from local farms that would otherwise go to waste and distributes it to local hunger relief agencies. Its mission is to improve the livelihoods of local farmers, increase food security for our most vulnerable residents, and get everyone engaged in strengthening the food system by eliminating on-farm food waste in Rhode Island.

Funds awarded to Farm Fresh by the Garden Foundation of Rhode Island provided Hope’s Harvest with bins, liners, knives, gloves and other harvest supplies for their satellite storage location.

As an efficient and effective solution to the twin challenges of food waste and hungry people, farm-based food recovery (also known as “gleaning”) strengthens our local food system and makes our communities less dependent on commodity food shipped from thousands of miles away instead of what’s in our own backyard.