REAP Food Group + Roots4Change
Food is Community
Farms to Families (F2F)/Fondo de Granjas a Familias is a partnership between REAP, Roots4Change (R4C), and Second Harvest. This program purchases fresh, healthy, locally grown food from regional family farms and small businesses and distributes it to Madison-area Latino/Indigenous families experiencing job loss, food insecurity, and lack of access to social services.
Participating families receive bi-weekly Resilience Boxes – boxes of local ingredients that come with nutrition information and culturally meaningful recipes. In addition to the boxes, REAP and R4C collaborate on social events to facilitate a co-learning space centering cooking, breastfeeding, and food policy.
Donate or Volunteer To Support F2F
What does F2F do?
Why does it matter?
- Provides culturally meaningful and nourishing food to families facing food insecurity
- Distributes an average of 48 Resilience Boxes per week with volunteer help
- Fosters connection through programmatic events, connecting participants with farmers and other community resources
- 94% of Latino/Indigenous families with children fall below Dane County poverty lines
- Many social and political factors make these families among the least likely to seek help from established food and support programs
- Prioritizing women and BIPOC food entrepreneurs supports producers that historically face more barriers to traditional markets
