Fresh Take Blog

This summer, the FoodPrints Summer Program provided hands-on cooking and gardening to 150 students at three DCPS sites: Takoma, Langley, and Houston Elementary Schools. Every afternoon, students cooked and ate FoodPrints recipes and explored the school garden.

Building off our successful FoodPrints school partnership model and past community engagement work, FRESHFARM pivoted our work this year with Early Childhood Education (ECE) centers to focus on deep engagement and education at three centers. Our current partners are: Educare IDEA and Educare Parkside in Ward 7, and House of Ruth in Ward 8.

Learn all about the Mid-Atlantic Grains Program, the result of a collaboration between Common Grain Alliance and FRESHFARM to build market opportunities for local grain farmers and millers while fostering a vibrant regional grain economy in the Mid-Atlantic.

Summer is here, and it's prime time to get out to your favorite markets or explore new ones with our Summer Traveler loyalty program!

Longtime farmers market shopper and FRESHFARM sustainer donor Paula Thiede shares her love of farmers markets and why she supports FRESHFARM.

Learn more about FRESHFARM’s Pop-Up Food Hub, our nonprofit food distribution program.

A twenty-year veteran in food & public health policy, Catherine (Cat) Oakar will lead FRESHFARM at a pivotal time for regional food systems.

How do you bring the abundance and freshness of the farmers market bounty onto the tables of neighbors in need? Learn how FRESHFARM's Pop-Up Food Hub does just that with our local nonprofit partner, Food for Others.