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Just Food’s Direct Purchasing Program connects food pantries, soup kitchens and other community meals programs in New York City with local farms. Just Food works with the NYC institution to learn about their produce purchasing needs and logistical constraints, and then matches the institution with a local farm for whom the logistics make sense and that would benefit from the market. Just Food brings the farmer and the NYC community organization together in order to work out the details of a direct purchasing arrangement that will be mutually beneficial. Below are the three

RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS

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Finding Volunteers for Your

Food Pantry or Soup Kitchen

SETTING UP A DIRECT PURCHASING RELATIONSHIP

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Timeline for setting up a direct purchasing relationship

Setting up a direct purchasing relationship takes time. For this reason, Just Food starts identifying organizations that are interested in establishing a relationship with a local farm in the late summer and fall for the following growing season. During the winter we work with the organization and go through a matchmaking process to find an appropriate farm with which to set up a relationship that will work well for both the organization and the farmer.

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HUNGER FACT SHEET

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FRESH FOOD FOR ALL STATISTICS

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Fresh Food for All by the numbers

For Local Produce Link, a joint project of Just Food and United Way of NYC:

FARM VISITS

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Each year, Just Food organizes farm trips to for food pantry staff and guests to give Local Produce Link participants the opportunity to visit their farm.