The Food Dignity Movement

Our stand calendar has been updated! You can get the dates Aug-October by clicking below. If you already signed up, check your email.

The 2024 Take What You Need; Pay What You Can Produce Stand calendar is HERE!

Click below to access the calendar and your produce purchases between March and May. We look forward to serving you and supporting our regional farmers. We start TOMORROW (3/17/24) in Duryea at 12:00 PM. Stop by the Germania Hose Company for the Duryea Betterment Committee Spring Market.



Download calendar here ---->
https://producestands.lpages.co/food-dignity-produce-stands/

A Pennsylvania grower reached out to us because he had 300 lbs of fresh cut 🥦 🥦🥦without a market. We were able to connect the farmer to a local grocer who paid more than the farmer’s asking price. We are now stepping aside to watch this relationship grow!

While this might sound like a small scale transaction, it is a big deal for our local agricultural industry.

This is one example of the 5 NEW markets we are establishing for Pennsylvania growers and ranchers. Food sustainability is nutrition security for everyone. 👩‍🌾🌱🌎

This week, we rescued 250 dozen FRESH eggs for 4 community partners! 🥚🍳🐓

A Pennsylvania farmer had a surplus and was planning to compost the eggs. By purchasing them, we created a market for the farmer. 🌎🌱👩‍🌾 Our efforts contribute to food sustainability and nutrition security for all.

Life is good! you can’t find this quality at your grocery store.

What does the warehousing career track at Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center have in common with hunger?

Everything.

Thank you very much Penn State for showcasing our unique program that creates food equity in the school system.

True nonprofit growth or expansion happens when we acknowledge food as a human right for all, delivered in the way people define DIGNITY for themselves. 🍽️

A government leader asked if I wanted to expand across Pennsylvania or the nation. I replied, "Our program adapts to the needs of the people. We will never force a community to conform to our program. So, how do you define expand?"

Expanding is a delicate issue when fighting hunger. We cannot treat hunger as a business or a platform for our egos. Often, the reality of hunger is misunderstood—it's secretive, heavy, dark, frightening, and political. Hunger is used as tool of power over people in ways most of us will never comprehend, nor dare to explore.

It's easy to create solutions for the sake of recognition, accolades, awards, and funding. The real challenge is being a witness to hunger. This requires us to stop and listen with a full heart. It requires hard conversations and the humility to say, "I have it wrong."

🍽️ Food is personal.
🔒 Food is safety.
❤️ Food is love.
💪 Food is empowerment.
🕊️ Food is freedom.

We are showcasing our worksite wellness partnership with King's College, Pennsylvania! Penn State University is here filming our best practice for a train-the-trainer program.



Glenn Thompson Congressman Matt Cartwright U.S. Senator Bob Casey Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski U.S. Department of Agriculture Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Pennsylvania Department of Health Pennsylvania Department of Education

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Two opportunities to support your local farmers on YOUR budget. 💵💵💵

Take What You Need; Pay What You Can

7/10/24 at 1 PM The Lands at Hillside Farms

7/11/24 at 5 PM Duryea VFW 1227

Thank you Copart for sponsoring the stand in Duryea!

Many people struggling to feed their families will have a temporary relief today because of the food at your July 4th party.

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Hunger lives in the homes of your friends and families. They just don’t tell you.

Zoom into the picture to find her thoughts.

Episode 166: Rescuing Nutritious Food: Denver Food Rescue's Battle Against Food Insecurity and Poverty

Letisha Steele is a former chef turned passion advocate for health equity. With roots in the Appalachian Mountains, her life's work addresses the complex challenges of communities from nutrition and education to housing and racial equity. In this episode, she talks about food inequity, food sovereignty, and the importance of choosing food that means something to families and cultures.

Listen here --->> https://fooddignitymovement.org/podcast/episode-166-rescuing-nutritious-food-denver-food-rescues-battle-against-food-insecurity-and-poverty/

We are honored to partner with Future50.US and look forward to shaping the food landscape.



Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Thompson Glenn Congressman Congressman Matt Cartwright U.S. Senator Bob Casey Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski

We're ready for you Duryea! Come visit us at the VFW, we open at 5pm!

Join us tomorrow at the Duryea VFW 1227 for a produce stand at 5 PM. Help us support our local farmers.

We had some interesting conversation today!

Organizations who refer to their programs as “stigma free” cause stigma and shame in the declaration itself. 📢📢📢

It is official. 🎬🎬🎬

We will showcase our community collaboration with King's College, Pennsylvania, Midwest Food Bank Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center , and our local farmers in a train-the-trainer video for Penn State University.

We love to elevate the great work our community partners are doing to create food equity in unique ways through system and policy change. 📢📢📢

Filming starts in July! 🎥🎥🎥

{Calling Pennsylvania Leaders in Food Justice}

There's a PA House Bill up for discussion on Tuesday. If passed, it will perpetuate the distribution of end-of-life (rotten) food, allowing food banks to claim meals served, corporations to receive tax donations, and food rescue organizations to claim CO2e saved—all at the expense of people who need nourishing SAFE food and who are at a high risk of food borne illness!

I’m collaborating with several organizations to submit a statement regarding food safety guidelines. We are not against food rescue. We are for safe food rescue with standards and guidelines. If your organization would like to provide a letter, drop your email in a message. I'll send you a document to adapt to your voice, mission, and work.

This is an ethical issue and I vow to treat it as one moving forward. Any health care professional in hunger relief who supports and actively participates in the distribution of unsafe food violates their code of ethics. It is time to speak up and stop mandating the distribution of "as is" food.

There is something special about meeting 3 different farmers at a farm to load up our van! 🐄👨‍🌾👩‍🌾🍎🥒🍅🥬🧄🧅🫑

Meet me at Mt. Zion Baptist Church Wilkes Barre at 4 PM today!

Any frontline workers in food justice here? If so, join the conversation on my new LinkedIn post.

Link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/clancycashharrison_fooddignity-bethechange-elevatefrontlinesolutions-activity-7209524903836819456-TBol?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Our community partner, Willow Foundation's Heartwood Center, just picked up Pennsylvania pastured beef from Clapper Family Beef to nourish their members! We cannot wait to see what they cook up.
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Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding Thompson Glenn Congressman Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski Congressman Matt Cartwright U.S. Senator Bob Casey

‼️Our Duryea stand was an overwhelming success! Still a few items left (some apples, potatoes, and lettuce!)
But we will be closing early today. See you in two weeks on 6/27!‼️

Support local farmers on your budget!

Take What You Need; Pay What You Can farm stands this week (June 12 and June 13)

Wed June 12, 2024
The Lands at Hillside Farms
1:00 PM- until we run out

Thursday June 13, 2024
Duryea VFW 1227
5:00 PM -7:00 PM or until we run out

Please bring a bag.

We are featuring Burger's Farm Market who sources from a large variety of local farms, Endless Roots Farm, Rowlands Pennsylvania Produce, and TwoFold Farm & Studio.

🌱🍎 Join us for an insightful chat with Oliver English, co-director of "Feeding Tomorrow," as we explore the links between local farming, food sustainability, and school nutrition.

Discover the challenges and successes of integrating healthy foods into schools and its impact on community health. 🌍💚

🎧 Listen now: https://fooddignitymovement.org/podcast/episode-164-feeding-tomorrow-the-intersection-of-food-sustainability-and-education/

Come join the fun!! Run, walk, cartwheel, juggle, bear walk on New Year's Eve-- ANYONE is invited to join a 5K! The event supports a ton of awesome causes, and we're so glad to be a part of it all! Go to Back Mountain Trail - New Year's Eve 5K for details.

Start your year off on the right foot at the New Year’s Eve Back Mountain 5K PA live! (WBRE) — Monday on PA live!, Chris spoke with Dave Bass and Shaun Daney from the New Year’s Eve Back Mountain 5K. The guests recall last year’s successful event, and expla…

3 years ago we started a partnership with King's College, PA Shoval Center to improve food access. The mission for our FD team moved into the food equity sector very quickly. We know that if hunger is going to end, we have to fight against the food inequity that surrounds us.

We ask the difficult questions:

1. What is equitable for the people we serve?
2. What is equitable for the organizations handing out the food?
3. What is equitable for our local farmers?
....and then delivered results.

Thank you Suzanne for pitching a panel on our partnership with Kings. It was an honor to listen to your stories about the resilient local food system we created in NEPA. It would not be possible without Midwest Food Bank Pennsylvania and a network of over 20 farmers.

We are so excited to work on this tough, long, political path with you and so many other community partners. At the end of the day, if we do not support our local smaller farmers, we will all pay in the future.

Thank you Victims Resource Center for highlighting our work with your colleagues across the state....and getting them in the mindset to fight for food equity! It was a true honor.

Suzanne Beck from VRC, Clancy Harrison from The Food Dignity Movement, and Bill Bolan from Kings College presented “The Food Dignity Program: A New Paradigm to Address Food Insecurity When Serving Victims of Crime” at the Pathways for Victims Services Statewide Conference held in State College this week. Their workshop highlighted the many ways that community partners can collaborate to address the often hidden food insecurity that is faced by victims of violence every day.

Join us and celebrate Giving Tuesday!

You can learn more about our mission and outcomes in the most recent Times Leader article ----> https://www.timesleader.com/news/1637861/fighting-hunger-today-and-every-day

You can support our mission and donate here -----> https://www.facebook.com/donate/1077328439956266/

You can watch our newly released short film here ----> https://youtu.be/mCnWckSMiek?si=y00lpCvpD6uqoe4W

Thank you!

It is an honor to be supported by the Back Mountain Triathlon! Thank you for helping us feed our community with dignity.

Nice mention today in the The Citizens' Voice about the other benefits of triathlon - helping out in our local community. This year the Back Mountain Triathlon raised $20,000 which was distributed to local non-profits. Thank you to all our athletes, sponsors and volunteers who helped us make this possible. See you next summer!

It was an honor! Thank you JCA of Northeastern Pennsylvania for hosting a great race. 💜💜💜