Congratulations agaiin to reigning Salsa Champs Loucille Boulay, Kevin Walker and Tony Aho. We'll post their winning recipe in the next day or two, so keep checking back! Second place winner went to Sarah Craig for her secret "Grandma's Salsa" recipe and third place went to "Hot Momma Salsa" creator, Dodie Dravis. Dodie actually took $10 in Market Bucks and purchased all of her ingredients at our wonderful Farmers' Market! Click here to download the winning recipe!
Purchase lightbulbs and various other promotional items at the Farmers Market to show your support of the Commission Against Domestic Violence.
Congratulations to our winner of the 2008 Kids' Sunflower Growing Contest. We are embarrassed to admit that we misplaced her entry form during all the congratulations so if you happen to know our winner's name please email us at marketing@puyallupmainstree.com.
URGENT NEED FOR FARM CONTACTS
Now and in the weeks ahead Rotary First Harvest, Solid Ground and others will be working to get more fruit and vegetables into local food banks through the Harvest Against Hunger, an unprecedented statewide gleaning effort. Towards this end, we are asking you to help us identify growers in your community who might have unharvested or blemished produce that could be gleaned for this project.
DESCRIPTION OF HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER
The Harvest Against Hunger seeks to glean and distribute over one million pounds of unharvested tree fruits and other produce for thousands of hungry families and vulnerable people throughout our state. In particular, we are seeking to mobilize Washington’s tremendous agricultural resources, together with our state’s volunteer and national service resources to secure and distribute slightly blemished tree fruit that would otherwise go unharvested.
The goals for the Harvest are as follows:
Since this project seeks to develop an additional stream of donated produce for local food banks, all produce collected will be offered to local food banks first. If local food banks are not able to use the donation, it will be offered to the next closest group that can make use of the produce.
The Harvest Against Hunger is an extraordinary partnership including farms and orchardists, the Washington Food Coalition, the Washington State Commission for National and Community Service; the Washington State Department of Agriculture, Rotary First Harvest, Solid Ground’s Apple Corps and others who are committed to ending hunger.
If there is a grower in your area who you believe would like to supply your food bank with additional food through this gleaning effort, please call us at 1.800.457.4483.
COMMUNITY NEED:
Steep increases in food prices, combined with decreased food supplies and diminished donations have led to unprecedented demand among tens of thousands of low-income, vulnerable people statewide. This increased demand far exceeds the capacity of food banks and meal programs to respond.
Despite these urgent needs, millions of pounds of tree fruit and other produce currently goes unharvested due to superficial damage and other factors. What is needed is a coordinated, large-scale gleaning effort to reclaim this resource, thereby helping to feed thousands of people who are currently going hungry.
