Join the movement!
How your family can help bring food justice
Join a Produce Party!
Sort, pack, and deliver a truckload of fresh, excess fruits and vegetables into the heart of communities that need it. Some families bring three generations. for the joy of giving back. May include: dancing, laughter, new friends!
Fill a Local Fridge
With your family, your school, your religious group: share food with your neighbors at a community fridge, where anyone can take what they need..
Youth Empowerment
Unleash the incredible power of youth for good. Rescue excess food from your school cafeteria, organize an event, design your own service project.
“7.3 million children lived in food-insecure households In 2023”
-US Dept Of Agriculture, Report ERR–325.
Food justice coloring projects for kids
Coloring projects are a great way to bring to your children the kindness and satisfaction of giving. We talk to children beforehand about the fact that some children are not always sure of their next meal, and what we can do about it. Fact: 6.4 million households with children are not food secure according to the USDA.* Children are especially sensitive to other childrens’ need for food.
Some ideas
Signs for drivers
Draw colorful decorated signs for the volunteers that drive our produce to the community: “Grassroots Grocery Driver.” Scan and send your drawings or bring them to a Produce Party!
Decorate cards
Children can color cards, with produce themes, on holidays, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and other holidays. Beets, carrots, strawberries welcome!
Decorate a family jar
Decided to donate to Grassroots Grocery? Place a jar on the kitchen table or counter to hold family donations. Children can decorate the jar with pictures of produce, or Grassroots Grocery veggie characters from this website!
