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On the Road: Farm to Family Conference day 1 & 2

Back in 1998, no food bank wanted fresh fruits or vegetables. Remember, food banks were built to move dry, shelf stable goods. Now, 15 years later, fresh fruits and vegetables are a must. And it happened really quickly - together, as a network of food banks, we are distributing just a shade under 1 billion pounds of fresh produce.

On the Road: Farm to Family Conference

In 2014, we distributed nearly 7 million pounds of fresh produce but with 82% of our clients reporting that they purchase inexpensive, "unhealthy" food to stretch their food budgets, we need to increase our supply of fresh fruits and vegetables in order to achieve some balance in what we're offering the people visiting our programs. How will we do it? I got a chance to go out to Fresno to visit some national food bank leaders to figure out how and to share some of our promising practices.