Gorge Grown has released its 2024 impact report, which includes 12,000 pounds of produce gleaned for local food banks.
Photo courtesy Peter FinkTHE GORGE — According to Gorge Grown Food Network’s 2024 impact report, the group’s three farmers’ markets brought $1.5 million into the local economy last year. Local vendor businesses — 75% of them owned or co-owned by women — got another $33,000 boost at November’s bulk buying market.
The nonprofit's published goals include building the supply of locally-produced food, and increase everyone’s access to it.
Produce was given to low-income families, with 860 holiday meal boxes delivered and 12,000 pounds of produce gleaned for local food banks by Gorge Glean. Customers with SNAP cards also received $110,851 in matching funding by year’s end.
Gorge Grown also helped deliver 130 holiday food boxes to Native American families last November. The INDFEAST, or Indigenous Nations’ Delicious Food Celebrations, is “a community effort to deliver holiday meals” to rural families at in-lieu sites, treaty fishing access sites and villages along the river in Skamania, Wasco, Klickitat and Hood River counties. Food came from Organically Grown Co.; partners included Gorge Native American Collaborative, Columbia Gorge Food Bank, Columbia River Intertribal Fisheries Commission, Washington Gorge Action Programs, The Next Door Inc. and Natives Along the Big River.
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