Mainers Feeding Mainers
We warmly welcome Maine’s local food producers to join our work to eliminate hunger in Maine.
Mainers Feeding Mainers seeks to:
- BUY LOCAL - Establish wholesale purchasing partnerships with Maine farmers, dairy operators and fishing industries to acquire fresh, locally grown and processed food for Maine’s hungry.
- BUY SMART - Target purchasing of fresh vegetables and fruits, and high protein items such as cheese, fish and meat most needed to assure nutritionally balanced food especially for food insecure children and elderly.
- DISTRIBUTE GOOD FOOD SAFER, QUICKER – Upgrade and maintain the Food-Bank’s capacity to acquire, inspect and store food safely for quick distribution to 600 hunger relief organizations throughout the state.
We launched Mainers Feeding Mainers to form partnerships with the people who work the land and the sea to provide food for us all.
Our goal: to get fresh and nutritionally balanced Maine-harvested food to needy Maine families.
Since launching the program in 2010, we have worked with more than 20 farm partners to purchase and distribute over 1.3 million pounds of fresh, Maine-grown food to families in need.
contact Nancy Perry: nperry@gsfb.org
(207) 782-3554 x1109
Mainers Feeding Mainers is made possible through the generous support of the John T. Gorman Foundation, Elmina B. Sewall Foundation, Florence V. Burden Foundation, New Balance Foundation, the Maine Attorney General's Office, and other sponsors.