March 3, 2025
FareStart’s Mighty Croutons – A Recipe for Change
By Rebekah Denn, photo by Meryl Schenker, republished with permission by PCC Behind every savory, crunchy FareStart crouton is a partnership between...
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May 9, 2024
Mobile Community Market Evolves to Advance Food Security
Dozens of people lined up in the parking lot of Health Point Clinic in Des Moines one late April afternoon, stocking up on farm-fresh produce and...
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June 22, 2023
Reimagining and Rebuilding Back to our Roots in Social Enterprise
Did you know that FareStart is more than a nonprofit organization? We’re a nonprofit social enterprise that’s focused on job training and...
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March 9, 2023
A Nutritious Road to More Stable, Permanent Housing
Thousands of King County residents on the path to housing stability are experiencing lower stress and food-related anxiety and better nutritional...
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February 28, 2023
Support FareStart’s Permanent Supportive Housing Meals Program
Dear FareStart Community, Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis – with your generous support and the support of Washington State – FareStart...
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October 19, 2022
FareStart Grows Food Recovery Program to Fight Food Insecurity
We talked with Danny Barksdale (he/him), Food Recovery Program Manager, who has been with FareStart for 16 years, about our food recovery work and how...
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July 6, 2022
Community Meals Now Produced in Bigger, Custom-Designed Kitchen
Shortly after the pandemic hit in March 2020, FareStart quickly repurposed our former Maslow’s restaurant in South Lake Union to ramp up production...
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June 28, 2022
Bridging the Gap Between Hunger and Food Security
FareStart meals deliver for supportive housing residents Three days a week, vans full of healthy sack lunches pull up to Pat Williams Apartments and...
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January 6, 2022
An Update on our Community Market Pilot Project
This past summer, FareStart launched a pilot community-based mobile market with the hope of finding, “new ways to provide equitable access to fresh,...
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