Food Hub
What is the pie ranch food hub?
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pie Ranch transitioned from providing educational programs to working to secure organic produce for families and folks experiencing food insecurity in our Pescadero community and the greater Bay Area.
The Food Hub was originally part of the Farm Fresh Food Relief initiative, a collaborative effort among a network of Bay Area farms and food justice nonprofits to get good produce off the farms and into the community. Concord based food justice nonprofit Fresh Approach secured the group a grant from the USDA to continue the project on a large scale— At its height, Pie Ranch was packaging and delivering 800 produce boxes a week for families in need around the Bay Area.
Around the time of the wildfires in August, the USDA decided to take their funds elsewhere and the Farm Fresh Food Relief initiative as we knew it disbanded. Pie Ranch continues to purchase produce from small, local farmers and currently distributes to HOMEY (an organization serving community in the Mission District of San Francisco). We continue to prioritize buying from new farmers, female farmers, and farmers of color as we keep moving forward with our own Food Hub. If you are interested in helping to continue, expand, or support efforts like this, please visit our support page or check out the Peoples Food and Farm Project.
