Celebrating our First Anniversary as a Non-Profit!
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To celebrate the end of our first year since officially becoming a non-profit, we want to share with you a few words from our co-founders:
“Today, we are celebrating our first year anniversary since we started Farm2People in the midst of covid in May 2020. And looking back at this year, we’ve accomplished so much. We are deeply grateful for the amazing family of volunteers that is making our mission to support our local growers and empower underserved communities with real, whole food possible!
Access to nutritious food for all should be a basic human right. Growing food through responsible, regenerative farming practices should be the norm, not the exception. And giving farmers access to a more equitable food network is the foundation for building a more resilient food system for our future. What we’ve witnessed this past year is a national reckoning with the inequities built into the dna of our society and institutions.
Our hope at Farm2People is to contribute to changing old paradigms through providing greater access to real food, grown responsibly for the health of the soil, the economic viability of and respect for the growers and for the dignity and wellness of the end consumer. We know that nutrient dense, whole food goes a long way towards increasing the overall health of historically underserved communities.
Since day one, beyond the food relief effort and our fight for food justice, F2P’s mission has been to connect farmers to a diverse, resilient network of local food providers through an open-source, community driven platform. And with limited funding and the combination of talented people in the field of technology and supply chain, we are about to release and test this platform with local actors in Los Angeles for the first time! Our goal is to build a model that can be repeated for other dense urban areas and that will unlock new opportunities for local farmers whilst addressing food insecurity and food waste.
But we will only be able to achieve this with the indefectible support of our donors. Thank you for believing in us and believing in Food Sovereignty!”