A Taste of The Garden 2024
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The Kane Street Community Garden
Having the ability to put healthy foods on the table is a struggle for some. Fresh produce can be expensive and some families are making tough choices with their food budgets. Your support helps us provide nutritious fruits and vegetables to those who might not otherwise have enough! As a community, let’s GROW together to give people access to healthier foods!
The Hunger Task Force of La Crosse operates the Kane Street Community Garden at the corner of Kane and St. Cloud Streets on the North Side. From mid-March to mid-October, volunteers plant, maintain and harvest a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Currently, we have limited hours from October-February. Our goal is to grow 30,000 pounds of fresh produce annually and distribute it to the community free of charge.
WE NEED YOU! Volunteers are the key to our success!
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Food Recovery Program
Everyone is entitled to enough food! The most basic of human needs, food is a right, not a privilege! We need your help in providing food for the communities we live and work in.
The Hunger Task Force provides a safety net of emergency food to a network of local food pantries and meal programs. We are the only FREE and LOCAL food bank in the La Crosse area and we do not charge a penny for the food we distribute, delivery or network membership.
We offer free food to any food program that provides food free to their clients. Programs include: The Salvation Army, New Horizons, Onalaska/Holmen Food Basket, Come For Supper, and many more!
A Food Bank is a large warehouse facility that collects, sorts and equitably distributes all types of food to pantries, shelters, community meal programs and other 501 (c)(3) charitable social service organizations. The Hunger Task Force coordinates donations from approximately 480 donors and food drives and distributes to over 120 programs in La Crosse, Vernon, Trempealeau, Monroe, Houston, Winona and Allamakee Counties.
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Everyone Is Entitled To Enough Food
The most basic of human needs, food is a right, not a privilege
Our Mission: We are a voice for the hungry by harvesting community resources to alleviate hunger.
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About Us - Our History
In 2000, the idea of preventing safe, wholesome food from going to waste became a concern. A leased truck immediately began picking up food from distributors and other donors to distribute around the community. By 2002, the Food Recovery Program (originally named Three Rivers Harvest) was serving 19 area meal sites and food pantries.
Today, The Hunger Task Force is serving over 120 meal sites, food pantries, youth programs, and outreach sites in La Crosse, Vernon, Trempealeau, Crawford and Monroe Counties in Wisconsin, Houston and Winona Counties in Minnesota, and Allamakee County in Iowa. In 2023, over 1,000,000 pounds of TEFAP food (The Emergency Food Assistance Program), 300,000 pounds of Fresh Produce Boxes, and 2,500,000 pounds of "recovered" food was distributed to these partner programs.
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Let's GROW together to give people access to healthier foods
Our Mission: We are a voice for the hungry by harvesting community resources to alleviate hunger.
