What started as a collaborative educational effort between Farmers Against Hunger and HomeFront to come together to teach a once a month culinary class with Jersey fresh produce has grown to be a 3 classes per week program that is now also supported by Snap Ed and the USDA.
"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." – Vince Lombardi
It takes a community!
Farmers Against Hunger has teamed up with HomeFront to spread the love and education of cooking wholesome foods grown locally to the citizens that HomeFront serves. This relationship and educational celebration of food started in summer of 2023. Farmers Against Hunger provides New Jersey grown produce from NJ farmers right to Dylan and the team at Homefront that then gets supplied to the Connie Mercer Family Campus where there is a newly built kitchen classroom for residence of the facility to participate in.
The culinary program at the Connie Mercer Family Campus helps to fulfill HomeFront's mission to help to end the cycle of poverty and to help to educate families of how how to meal prep, budget for food shopping and cooking for a family, how to cook with fresh produce, explore different recipes, knife skills and hands-on work shops and great opportunities for residence to share meals with one another that tells the story of their personal background and family heritage. This wonderful program that we are so happy to supply food to is ran by nutritionist, Kelly Bozarth and is supported by SNAP ED which is funded by the USDA.
Farmers Against Hunger has teamed up with HomeFront to spread the love and education of cooking wholesome foods grown locally to the citizens that HomeFront serves. This relationship and educational celebration of food started in summer of 2023. Farmers Against Hunger provides New Jersey grown produce from NJ farmers right to Dylan and the team at Homefront that then gets supplied to the Connie Mercer Family Campus where there is a newly built kitchen classroom for residence of the facility to participate in.
The culinary program at the Connie Mercer Family Campus helps to fulfill HomeFront's mission to help to end the cycle of poverty and to help to educate families of how how to meal prep, budget for food shopping and cooking for a family, how to cook with fresh produce, explore different recipes, knife skills and hands-on work shops and great opportunities for residence to share meals with one another that tells the story of their personal background and family heritage. This wonderful program that we are so happy to supply food to is ran by nutritionist, Kelly Bozarth and is supported by SNAP ED which is funded by the USDA.