Farm Share, Inc.

To feed as many Floridians as possible and to not allow good food go to waste.

We are aiming to feed 1 million children under food insecurity!
We want to feed those Floridians who are struggling to feed their families and have at times 2 jobs in order to do so!

Ultimately, we want to eliminate hunger in Florida and at the very least, lower the number of people from going hungry!

Farm Share strategic plan includes a 3-point plan of attack to ameliorate food insecurity in Florida in 2021-2022. We are focused on working with more food agencies in order to reach those neighborhoods and communities that are identified as food insecure. This means that they do not know where their next meal is coming from. This issue is affecting 3.9 million Floridians and 1 million children are included in that figure. Our next plan is to work with schools to identify programs and communities in order to reach as many children as possible. We are focused on feeding as many children as possible and making sure that Florida’s children are not being affected by malnutrition and psychological trauma due to going hungry. Our third focus will be on helping family units get back on their feet. Cost of living has skyrocketed in Florida and we MUST do something about helping struggling parents feed their families. Lastly, we plan to bring awareness to the food insecurity issue in Florida!

We have a vast team of passionate individuals throughout the state of Florida. Our warehouses combined make the largest food bank in Florida. We have a truck fleet with semi trucks and box trucks that are all refrigerated. We have 8 warehouses and are growing this year as we expand our programs throughout the state of Florida. Our logistics team and marketing department will be able to give us the strength to fight hunger in Florida in 2022.

As a food bank, we have warehouses and trucks that are always ready to go in order to mobilize food and goods to any past of the state of Florida. This means that while most groups focus on canned and processed food donations, our mission remains focused on re-packing fresh, nutritious fruits and vegetables that would otherwise be thrown away. It costs more to handle this kind of food, but fresh produce is simply more nutritious than canned, and there is a nearly unlimited supply of it being thrown out every year.

Farm Share was established in 1991 as a nonprofit organization based on the idea to distribute fresh food -Free of Charge- to families throughout Florida an organization that gathers, stores and distributes food to indigents at no charge or at a low cost. This simple but innovative idea has now grown into a food bank that feeds millions of people. Since 1991 Farm Share has distributed 827,252,129 pounds of food with an estimated value of over 1.9 billion dollars. Farm Share is Florida’s homegrown food bank. Founded for and by Floridians, Farm Share has been serving those under food insecurity since 1991 with the simple but innovative idea to recover crops from Florida farmers in order to distribute fresh and nutritious food to Floridians in need. 30 years after our inception we have feed millions and are now Florida's largest independent food bank!