Frontline Farming Healing Foods Program

The story so far...

In the last decade the Colorado economy has grown. Cranes along the skyline of downtown Denver announce a new era of economic prosperity. Despite this growth, access to prosperity has been hard to come by for many in our state with 1 in 3 Coloradans hungry, lacking access and resources to buy food. One in eight children in the state are living below the poverty line with children under five being the most likely to live in poverty. Sadly that same 1 in 8 Colorado children experience food insecurity, not knowing where their next meal will come from. This reality exists alongside the existence of federal food assistance programs that many believe help to alleviate hunger, but for a variety of reasons are not well accessed across the state. Colorado ranks 17th in participation in school breakfast programs and 43rd in food stamp access for low income residents.

Frontline Farming Healing Foods Program

Understanding that women with children, the terminally ill and immigrants are especially vulnerable community members, FrontLine Farming fulfillsls our Healing Foods donation and rescue program weekly. Our primary goal is to increase food access for the vulnerable people the booming Colorado economy leaves behind. Healing Foods donations and food rescue sources foods both from our farms, as well as local grocery stores, and food banks to redistribute this food wealth through our network of partners. Our partner organizations work at the intersections of hunger, immigration and support for women and children. The Healing Foods program is critical to realizing our value of addressing hunger and food access for the most vulnerable members of our community, and bringing a racial equity lens to our work. Finally, because we recognize that poverty is a root cause to food access and affects not only our ability to buy food but also presents issues such as transportation to locations where food can be purchased, we deliver our produce to partner organizations where people are already accessing additional services. Since 2016 we have partnered with Denver Food Rescue to redistribute groceries from Whole Foods (Cherry Creek) and Sprouts (Washington Park). Every year we distribute around 2,000 pounds of farm-fresh food, redistribute over 20,000 pounds of rescued food in the City of Denver, and serve over 4,000 recipients.

Donations will cover the cost of gas, truck maintenance, labor in the field and on the road, and vital farm production tools and resources.