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The Hidden Link Between Food Waste and Natural Disasters

Julia DeSantis

April 17, 2025

Farms and Food Banks

Children's Hunger Fund

Over the past six weeks, The Farmlink Project has helped deliver 192,000 pounds of salt from Morton Salt, 120,000 pounds of onions from Jensen Farms in...

Rebecca Isaacson

Faces of Farmlink

Sandy Washington

On July 8, Lifestyles of Maryland received over 4,000 gallons, of milk from Balford Farms. The USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box program, a federally...

Faces of Farmlink

Christian Bailey and Julie Burke

Christian Bailey and Julie Kremer stand outside a temporary refrigerator unit in a hot field on June 26, 2020. Nothing about Christian’s appearance hints at...

Christina Knight

Farms and Food Banks

Food Bank of Central and Eastern NC

The Farmlink Project connected John E. Ferebee Farming Inc. in Camden, North Carolina to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, located in...

Faces of Farmlink

“Growing up on a farm, I liked the farm lifestyle, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to be a dairy farmer,” Larry Alsum of Alsum Farms & Produce, Inc., told me over...

Faces of Farmlink

Gwendena Lee-Gatewood

When I spoke with Tribal Chairwoman Gwendena Lee-Gatewood on Friday morning, she was busy organizing a mask drive. What started as a small project to...

Claudia Sandell

Farms and Food Banks

Watermelons from Full Harvest

Between July 27 and July 28, The Farmlink Project helped facilitate a shipment of 80,000 pounds of watermelon from Full Harvest to Heart of Compassion...

Faces of Farmlink

“The folks in line need that stability. They don’t necessarily know where [the food] is coming from or how it got there. They just need to know that they’ll...

Claudia Sandell

Farms and Food Banks

In late May, The Farmlink Project partnered with Food Rescue US – Detroit to help deliver 40,000 pounds of potatoes from a farm in Washington state...

Rebecca Isaacson & Josh Musicant

Farms and Food Banks

Earlier this month, The Farmlink Project partnered with Happy Dirt and Central Virginia Food Bank to deliver over 6,000 pounds of produce to Feed More, a...

Farms and Food Banks

Siskiyou Community Food Bank

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly exacerbated the issue of food insecurity in Yreka, a secluded city in Siskiyou County, California, and surrounding...

Christina Knight

Farms and Food Banks

Navajo Nation, an American Indian territory that spans over Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico just surpassed New York for the highest number of COVID-19 cases in...

Christina Knight & Claudia Sandell