A Locally Farmed and Home Delivered Food Program
Founded in 2009 with the simple belief that our neighbors should not go hungry, especially when struggling with illness. Our mission is to drive hunger from our communities today, one meal at a time.
We serve our neighbors in need through a community network of community based organizations, churches, hospitals, school, and other service providers.
We fight hunger with the support of individuals, foundations and other hunger nonprofits.
Services
What We Do
Farming
It starts in the garden. Our Farm Team decide what crop to plant for each season and then go to work. Once the harvest is in, they process the food, and Home Delivery Team responsible for packaging it for home delivery.
The end result is people in need having healthier food options available to them. Eating fresh produces lowers the risk of diet related illnesses to include diabetes and high blood pressure. Given that our clients often have unmanaged chronic comorbidities, fresh produce is just about the best way to reduce hunger and malnutrition.
Home Food Delivery
The RIBHO home-visiting program provides a means of delivering food on a regular basis to people who are unable to leave their homes or whose physical conditions or home support would otherwise preclude the consistent provision of meals necessary for their nutritional needs during recovery. The visiting team is trained to not only offer food, but to help the recipient maintain social contact to hasten recuperation during convalescence.
Home-visits are one way we obtain useful information and find extra help for persons in need of additional health services in the home.
Service Learning
Service learning is one of the ways we address hunger issues in our communities. Our volunteers and staff have at some point experienced hunger and they live in communities were a good number of people experience hunger daily. Through training and household assessment activities, we gain an increased understanding of the complex issues people with limited resources face.
Beyond developing empathy for people experiencing food insecurity, our youth and adult volunteer trainees complete challenging service learning projects that help them better serve our clients.
Your Love in Our Communities of Service
This is us in Numbers
In 2020 through 2023
86,192
meals provided
4,679
volunteer hours
33
communities
201
meetings/trainings
Why You’ll Love Us
Our dedicated team of volunteers and farmers go the extra mile to grow, process, package and distribute our food.
- We grow our food
- We process our food to facilitate nutrition rehabilitation
- We go to the patient at home
- We maintain a home and community presence
- We engage with local partners
- We engage the next generation of leaders
- We learn and grow together through training options include: 1) homecare visit and community crisis care training, 2) partner implementation support, 3) partnership accrediting.
“Reliable”
No matter how remote, our home deliver team has a large delivery footprint.
The food package is delivered straight to the clients homes.
Seamless support from food, medicine, social support with a diverse professional visiting team that maximizes impact
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“Tailored Care”
Clients or caregiver choose to request some food item off the standard delivery list.
Food selection is suited to clients age and is need appropriate
Clients use up provided food items
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“Proven Outcomes”
Wellness assessments allow us the knowledge that patient clients improve and get better
Clients enjoy social interactions with the visiting teams
Nutritious meals facilitate medication adherence
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Our Stories
- We planted, watered, harvested and sharedAfter years of significant land loss for individuals, organizations and communities, access to affordable and productive farmland of any size is one of the greatest challenges in re-designing food systems that ensure access to food for all, throughout the year.Continue reading “We planted, watered, harvested and shared”
- A Message to Carry ForwardPsalm 65:11. “You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.” What I always knew but really didn’t and have learned to do better and to experience more, is that truth is not worth a wholeContinue reading “A Message to Carry Forward”
- A life shared …..By Emmanuel Kasomba Quite often, we despise the power and impact of a simple touch, a listening ear, a smile, an honest compliment, a simple word of prayer, a small act of sharing and caring, but a combination of theseContinue reading “A life shared …..”
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