Putting Good Food to Good Use

Food Rescue

Putting Good Food to Good Use

Taylor Moore, Director
231-995-7723

2889 Aero-Park Dr
Traverse City MI 49686

Each year, we rescue, repack, and distribute 2.2 million pounds of food — $3.7 million worth of food, enough to make 1.8 million meals — keeping it out of the landfill and getting it to the 16,000 people in our region who face difficult choices each month between paying for food, rent, medicine, or utilities.

Every day, we pick up 1,000 loaves of bread, 3,500 pounds of produce, 750 pounds of dairy, and 600 pounds of meat, and deliver 8,000 pounds of nutritious food to 78 food pantries and community meal sites in the Northwest Food Coalition.

We partner with 210 local organizations, including 82 farms to rescue and deliver food across a five-county rural region that’s twice the size of Rhode Islands, focusing on the food that is hardest to access — 44% of the food we deliver is fruits and vegetables!

DID YOU KNOW?

16,000 households in our five-county area use food pantries and community meal sites to access the healthy food they need.

Meanwhile, 35% of good food goes to waste.

Food Rescue rescues, harvests, repacks, and distributes nearly 2.2 MILLION LBS of food a year.

Food Rescue picks up 8,000lbs of food a day from our local grocery stores, bakeries, and farms.

We deliver to 78 food pantries, community meal sites, and baby pantries in a five-county region twice the size of Rhode Island.
Food Rescue makes 275 deliveries a month to the pantries and meal sites of the Northwest Food Coalition, at no cost to the pantries.
80% of the food we deliver is fresh and frozen bread, dairy, meat, fruits, and vegetables full of nutrients needed by children, seniors, and other neighbors experiencing food insecurity.
We do the logistics of the Coalition’s Farm2Neighbor program, distributing 125,000lbs of food that the pantries buy from local farms!
Food Rescue delivers 2,200,000lbs of food a year. That’s $3.7 million worth of food, enough to make 1.8 million meals!

How you can help

DONATE

One dollar donated helps us distribute four pounds of healthy food. Your charitable contributions keep our trucks on the road and help keep pantry shelves full of nutritious food.

CONNECT

We support the Northwest Food Coalition and collaborative community efforts to make sure our neighbors have access to the nutritious food they need. Contact us and join the work.

VOLUNTEER

Become a Healthy Harvester! Help us repack food into pantry-sized boxes in our warehouse year-round, and in season, help us glean extra food from the fields of local farmers.

Good Meals

For over 25 years, Goodwill Northern Michigan has provided food for the community. Our Good Meals team makes 200,000 meals a year for the Goodwill Inn, Street Outreach, Meals on Wheels, and people in treatment. Volunteers help us prepare, serve and deliver these meals every day.