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Now, 1,800 partner agencies across Southern California receive Food Forward recovered produce.

Through our three programs, we recover over 200 varieties of fruits and vegetables for our partner agencies.

An innovative partnership model supplies produce recovered by the Wholesale Recovery Program to the South Los Angeles community through a market-style distribution. The distributions happen twice a month and generally provide 12,000-15,000 pounds of fresh, free fruits and vegetables to…

An interdisciplinary, standards-aligned program that encourages 5th graders to reduce waste and address food insecurity is launched in four LAUSD fifth grade classes.

9,000 volunteer shifts are filled at backyard fruit picks and farmers market recovery events in 2016.

Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Riverside, and Imperial counties receive recovered produce from Food Forward’s programs.

Food Forward is named a regional winner for wasted food prevention.

The Torrance-based brewery releases Kumquat Saison—a tart beer that benefits Food Forward’s food recovery work, and is created with kumquats harvested by our volunteers.

The Farmers Market Recovery Program starts collection at market number 13, the Calabasas Farmers Market, with cumulative produce recovery of over 500,000 lbs.

A successful crowdfunding campaign helps us raise $45,000 for our own vehicle to recover fruits and vegetables from the Wholesale Produce Market. See the video here.