Our food hub purchases fresh fruits and vegetables from 70+ local farmers across North Carolina, who we always pay fairly.

We sell that produce to local restaurants, schools, and other food service institutions as well as donate to the emergency food system.

Revenue earned through food hub sales supports hardworking NC farmers AND helps fund our hunger relief programs.  

While we don’t facilitate distributions at our food hub directly, Farmer Foodshare packs food boxes which are provided at no cost to the community in partnership with local institutions and hunger relief agencies.

We primarily serve the emergency food system, but some other areas of service include:  

• Food is Medicine: In partnership with NourishedRx, we provide hundreds of food boxes each month for Wake County’s Nourishing Wake program, which provides chronically ill and food insecure residents with a fresh produce prescription. 
• Farm to ECE: We supply 18 different Wake County childcare centers with fresh produce, providing young learners with vital nutrition at school. 

Fresh Food Fund is a pool of unrestricted funding available to our community partners who provide free food to families experiencing food insecurity. Partner organizations “purchase” food boxes and bulk produce with Fresh Food Funds, and that food is directly distributed to the community.

CSA for ALL! is Farmer Foodshare’s Community Supported Agriculture program, where community members can sign up for a regular produce subscription during harvest season. Produce for the CSA is sourced from small local farms and proceeds from every share purchased help fund our food access initiatives.

We’re lucky to work alongside many other organizations in the Triangle, our state, and the East Coast region to strengthen local food ways. We participate in numerous groups and initiatives working to support local farmers and make good food accessible for all.

• NC Food Hub Collaborative: We are part of the NC Food Hub Collaborative, a Resourceful Communities initiative mobilizing nonprofit food hubs in NC to support each other’s growth and stability through coordinated efforts in capacity building, policy and advocacy, evaluation and analysis, and regional impact. 
• Eastern Food Hub Collaborative: Farmer Foodshare is a member of the Eastern Food Hub Collaborative, partnering with more than a dozen other food hubs from Maine to Georgia to share resources, expand market opportunities for local farmers, increase community food access, and build a more resilient regional food system
• Triangle Double Bucks: We serve as the fiscal agent for Triangle Double Bucks, a food assistance program that matches benefits like SNAP, WIC, FMNP, giving families twice the purchasing power and supporting hundreds of local farmers across 7 local farmers markets. 

We believe in using our voice to speak up for the needs of our community.

Teaming up with fellow food system organizations, we speak to national and state leaders at Lobby Day to protect funding and promote legislation that ensures our farmers grow, our communities are fed, and our food system thrives.