Impact By The Numbers

June 2024

Pounds of food rescued - 314,622.10 lbs
Via LFR fleet and Food Rescue Hero

Pounds of food rescued at the Farmers Market - 6,505.5 lbs
Happening on every Saturday, since June 1, 2024

Pounds of food shared throughout our community- 182,177.00 lbs
Via LFR fleet and Food Rescue Hero

383.13 Tons of CO2eq* prevented from rescuing food
*includes transport to landfill, fugitive methane emissions, energy recovery offset, and landfill carbon storage

35 Food Rescue Drivers and 12 Farmers Market Volunteers
Rescued food through the Food Rescue Hero app or at the Market

135 Food Rescues Completed
Through the Food Rescue Hero app

Learn More About Food Rescue Volunteering!

Are you interested in learning more about Food Rescue volunteer opportunities with Action House? Join us for an in-person volunteer orientation. During orientation, you’ll learn how you can get involved and how you can help reduce food waste in our community!

Check Out The Food Rescue Hero App

Have you wondered what the Food Rescue Hero app is? And what it’s like to use it?

See what volunteers are saying about our Food Rescue Hero app!

‘Great first time experience. I really appreciate Joe showing me around the Community Action House Food pantry and food club. What an amazing program!’

‘So fun!’

‘Great instructions. No issues with the pickup.’

‘Went great. The food delivery recipient was pleased with the quality of the produce!’

Do you want to try the Food Rescue app or are you a volunteer in need of technical support? Check out the FRH App Technical Support resource on our Lakeshore Food Rescue webpage. Otherwise, please reach out to our team if your question is not there and we will work to answer it promptly!

Volunteer With Us at the Holland Farmers Market!

It’s summer time, which means our Holland Farmers Market is in full swing! As mentioned above, we’ve already received 6,505.5 lbs of food thanks to volunteers powering our market efforts! The farmers market is an essential part of our Lakeshore Food Rescue operations each summer, ensuring we’re capturing excess fresh, healthy produce that might otherwise go to waste, and making it available to those who need it most. We hope you’ll consider joining us as a volunteer this summer!

Join us as a gleaner! As a Volunteer Gleaner, you’ll help rescue produce that local farmers and vendors donate at the end of the Market. Collecting at the market wouldn’t be possible without volunteers powering gleaning each Saturday & we’re actively seeking volunteers to join this season’s Gleaning crew! 

Power our Produce Donation table! We provide a Produce Donation table on Wednesdays throughout the summer, powered by volunteers! As a volunteer, you’ll staff the booth, talk about Action House & LFR with interested individuals, accept and weigh produce donations, and clean up at the end of the day!

Please sign up to glean or collect produce with us this summer, or share the links above with your friends & family to help us spread the word. We’re thankful for our partnership with the Holland Farmers Market, and for the variety of opportunities to engage in the market throughout the summer. We’ll see you at the Market!

Want to get in contact with the Food Rescue Team?

Contact Joe (Food Rescue Coordinator & Volunteer Experience Champion) at jguzman@communityactionhouse.org