Let's Move! and AmpleHarvest.org - Working Together
AmpleHarvest.org is a nationwide campaign that enables millions of home gardeners to donate excess garden produce to local food pantries. This donated produce is often the only fresh food available at the food pantries that 1 out of every 6 Americans relies on to help feed their family.
AmpleHarvest.org's "No Food Left Behind" concept is designed to educate, encourage and enable growers nationwide to help their community by helping them reach into their backyards instead of their back pockets to help their neighbors in need.
Let's Move! encourages people to eat healthy food, but for the tens of millions of Americans who simply can't afford it, AmpleHarvest.org enables what Let's Move! and the First Lady advocate.
11 comments
Gary Oppenheimer • about 14 years ago
America's challenge is not that we don't have enough healthy food. Rather, it is that we don't know that the healthy food we need is already in our community and available at no cost from local growers. AmpleHarvest.org solved that problem.
You can help in your own community.
**Urge a local food pantry to register at AmpleHarvest.org.**
Find the food pantry in your community - possibly in a nearby house of worship, YMCA or other civic location. Give them the www.AmpleHarvest.org/pantry flier and urge them to register ASAP. Let them know they don't need refrigeration for freshly harvested produce, they don’t need the Internet and that AmpleHarvest.org is totally FREE!
**Help others learn about AmpleHarvest.org.**
Put www.AmpleHarvest.org/blogarticle in your blog or newsletter.
**Help local gardeners learn to share their garden bounty**
Print the www.AmpleHarvest.org/gardenshop flier and post it in local garden shops, nurseries, community and bulletin boards to help growers help the hungry.
**Help publicize the AmpleHarvest.org Campaign**
Ask your local media to visit www.AmpleHarvest.org/press and do a story about people in the community wanting fresh produce for their families from the local food pantry
**Lastly, please vote for AmpleHarvest.org in this challenge.**
Every vote helps increase the chances that more people in more communities will get access to fresh food... many for the first time.
Comments about AmpleHarvest.org:
Within one hour of registering Community Resource Center on the AmpleHarvest.org website I received a call from a local family of four with 10 orange trees.
Comm. Resource Food Pantry, CA
AmpleHarvest.org has been a huge benefit to our partner agencies and has really helped getting fresh fruits to those in need.
Feeding America of San Diego, CA
Joyce Mason • about 14 years ago
Excellent Video
mollie brown • about 14 years ago
I have looking for something like this for a long time . someone who cares God bless you.
Gary Oppenheimer • about 14 years ago
Mollie... thanks for your kind words. Please keep voting for AmpleHarvest.org every day through May 11 and ask all of your friends to do the same too. Also, visit www.AmpleHarvest.org/waystoghelp to learn how you can help us help more food pantries nationwide.
Gary Oppenheimer • about 14 years ago
Richard.... AmpleHarvest.org does go a long way towards solving childhood obesity by making fresh food available to millions of kids who'd otherwise only have access to processed food. Salt and sugar laden canned food contributes to a number of short and long term health issues. As our kids learn that apples don't come pre-sliced in cellophane and that carrots are normally crunchy and not soft, more and more kids will choose healthy food over processed and junk food.... and with that, childhood obesity will be reduced. If healthy food doesn't make kids healthier, what will?
Check out http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sasha-abramsky/breadline-usa-part-iii_b_223643.html for more insight on this.
Gary Oppenheimer • about 14 years ago
Thank you. Ask them to vote too. Any that want a daily reminder can email info@AmpleHarvest.org
Linda Pendland • about 14 years ago
PLEASE VOTE FOR OUR FOOD PANTRY - HOPE CENTER OF NORTH LUFKIN IS A PART OF AMPLE HARVEST
Gary Oppenheimer • about 14 years ago
Yours... and more than 5,000 other food pantries across all 50 states. Please ask your staff, friends and clients to visit www.AmpleHarvest.org/VOTE to help us. They can vote every single day until May 11.
Wendy Watson-Hallowell • about 14 years ago
Please vote! This is a wonderful cause and so easy to get involved in. THANKS!
Ruth Adams • about 14 years ago
A fantastic and truly American idea
Alan Osmond • about 14 years ago
Great organization!