High Desert Food & Farm Alliance Request for Proposals from Marketing Agencies for High Desert Food System Strategic Marketing Campaign The High Desert Food & Farm Alliance (HDFFA) is a nonprofit 501c3 organization whose mission is to support a healthy and thriving food & farm [...]

Food Policy Council Report 2018 Released The number of food policy councils (FPCs) continues to grow in the United States and Canada, according to findings from an annual survey of FPCs by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF)’s Food Policy Networks project (FPN). At the end of [...]

February 27, 2019, news release from the NASDA Foundation The NASDA Foundation today announced Sage Dilts of Barn Owl Bakery as its 2019 Women’s Farm to Food Competition grand prize winner. The prize was awarded on the fringes of the 2019 Winter Policy Conference of the National [...]

We are so excited to share the news! HDFFA and NeighborImpact are joining forces to expand fresh food options for Central Oregonians through the Fresh To You mobile food truck. This truck will deliver food bank staple items and Central Oregon farm fresh products starting this summer. [...]

Imagine standing in front of a fridge stocked with produce, dairy, meat, plus dozens of condiment jars. Now take a quarter of that food out and bury it. That might sound ridiculous, yet that’s what happens all across the country: more than one-fourth of the food produced in the U.S. ends [...]

Our wonderful partner, NeighborImpact has provided a list of Thanksgiving Meal sites below: For a list of food pantries with frozen holiday turkeys and sides available – click here Wishing one and all a happy and healthy Thanksgiving!

Food that would have been tossed out is turned into Sunday night meals at the Salvation Army From the Bend Bulletin Published Nov. 16, 2018 A new program in Bend is taking leftover food from the cafeteria at Central Oregon Community College that would usually be thrown away and saving it for a [...]

The magnitude of our nation’s food waste problem is difficult to comprehend. According to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, the U.S. generates 63 million tons of food waste worth $218 billion every year. Fortunately, food producers, processors, the food service industry and [...]