For twenty years, the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle has been getting nutritious food into the hands of hungry people across the Greater Triangle.  The Farm and Community Gardens Project continues this mission and responds to an increasing demand for healthy foods in all neighborhoods by creating local sources of fresh fruits and vegetables for underserved communities.  Local food, food that hasn’t traveled, excels in taste and nutrition.  The Farm and Community Gardens Project helps everyone have access to the best foods available.

IFFS Farm and Community Garden Goals:

• To provide fresh, local fruits and vegetables to community members in need
• To empower community members and put them back in control of their own food
• To build community
• To improve community health and nutrition
• To provide an opportunity for community members to use the skills they learn in IFFS’s Operation Frontline healthy cooking classes
• To improve access for community members of all income levels to local, fresh food that excels in taste and nutrition
• To provide gardening education, skill building, opportunities for physical activity, and youth development

Current Projects

• PAR Program (Plant a Row for the Hungry)
• Giving back to your community through IFFS – Do you have a church, backyard, or community garden? Consider planting extra rows or designating a portion of your garden to people in need and help provide fresh fruits and vegetables for all community members
• Teaching and Production Farm
• Provide seeding transplants for IFFS community gardens
• Grow fresh, local, nutritious food to be sent out to IFFS agencies
• Teach organic gardening to low income kids and families, and life-challenged adults and teens
• Located in South Raleigh off Tryon Rd
• Community Gardens
• IFFS will be developing a minimum of 2 CGs in 2009, followed by at least 3 more in 2010
• Sites Include: Mayview Neighborhood

Are you involved with a community or church garden? Do you grow food or herbs at home? Are you considering starting a garden this year? Are you looking to give back to your community?

We need YOUR help to get fresh, local food
to those in need!

1. Join the IFFS PAR Program and Grow to Give!

Plant A Row is a national program sponsored by The Garden Writers Association that encourages garden communities to donate fresh vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers to people in need.
The Inter–Faith Food Shuttle is the Triangle’s PAR partner, distributing your produce to local food pantries, shelters, and other hunger-relief organizations.

• Individuals, communities, and churches in the Triangle area can help feed the hungry through the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle by becoming PAR members.
• Have a garden?
• Call Katherine Andrew at IFFS (919.250.0043) and sign up to be a PAR member.
• Pick up a sign from IFFS to put in your garden and spread the word.
• In Raleigh? Bring your produce to IFFS and we’ll get it out to the community.
• Outside of Raleigh? Call IFFS and find out where to take your produce.
• Designate upon delivery that this is produce for the PAR program!
• No garden yet?
• Encourage others to become PAR members and donate their produce!
• Organize a garden at your work for future donations to IFFS. ? Consider setting a goal for how much you want to donate back to the community.
• Donate to IFFS at www.foodshuttle.org

2. Volunteer!

• Contact Emily Zartman at IFFS, Emily@FoodShuttle.org, and sign up to be a Garden Volunteer
• You will receive emails when we need Volunteers Volunteer as a group or as individuals:
• Help on-site at the IFFS farm and gardens
• As a Chef or Nutritionist with IFFS Operation Frontline healthy cooking classes
• Recruit and coordinate volunteers or donations And much more at the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle!
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