Food Forward - Southern California's Largest Urban Gleaning Nonprofit

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Pounds Rescued*

Food Forward staff and volunteers rescue over 435,000 pounds of surplus produce each week from fruit trees, farmers markets and the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market. 100% of these fresh fruits and vegetables are donated to over 1,800 hunger relief agencies across 8 counties in Southern California.

* Despite our best efforts, a small percentage of Food Forward’s recovered produce is inedible.

Climate Change & Food Security

We often talk about food security—whether or not a person has access to enough nutritious, culturally appropriate food to...

We often talk about food security—whether...

Spreading the ‘gospel’ of fighting food waste and hunger

Meet our Volunteer of the Month, Miriam Cantor! Miriam has been involved with Food Forward for a long time...

Meet our Volunteer of the Month,...

Produce of the Month: Pomelo

Pomelos can grow to be pretty big, as demonstrated here by Los Angeles Harvest Supervisor Jason Landers! ...

Pomelos can grow to be...

Agency Spotlight: Los Angeles LGBT Center

Food Forward serves over 1,800 hunger relief agencies through donations of our recovered fruits and vegetables, and with that...

Food Forward serves over 1,800 hunger...

Hunger and homelessness in Los Angeles

Folks at a school in South LA pick up free produce supplied by Food Forward. The Issue In this...

Folks at a school in South...

We need YOU! Join us by getting outside and picking fruit!

What do we need you for? It’s citrus season here in Southern California, which means there are fruit on...

What do we need you for?...

Santa Barbara - 1 in 8 people struggle with hunger in Santa Barbara County
(Feeding America)

Imperial - 28% of residents and 44% of children in Imperial Valley are food insecure
(Imperial Valley Food Bank)

San Diego - 136,000 children in San Diego County are facing food insecurity
(U.S. Census Bureau)

Riverside - In Riverside County, 24% of children are living in poverty.
(California Food Policy Advocates)

San Bernardino - 1 in 5 people live in poverty in San Bernardino County
(U.S. Census Bureau)

Los Angeles - Los Angeles County has the largest estimated population of food insecure people in the U.S. - 1.5 million
(Feeding America)

Ventura - 16% of children in Ventura County are living in poverty
(U.S. Census Bureau)

Orange - Nearly 400,000 residents struggle to get their food needs met on a regular basis
(OC Food Access Coalition)

Who Receives Our Produce?

We donate recovered produce to over 1,800 agencies across 8 counties in Southern California.
Read more about the agencies we serve.

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