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Celebrate the Season of Giving at FRESHFARM MVT Market!

Friday November 1, 2024

As we enter November we’re excited to kick off another season of giving in Mount Vernon Triangle! For the next four weeks, we’ll be collecting canned goods and non-perishable foods every Saturday at the FRESHFARM MVT Market. Bring your donations to 5th & I Streets NW from 9am-1pm and drop them in the collection box located at the orange FRESHFARM information tent. And while you’re at the information tent, you can donate to FRESHFARMS’s “Thanksgiving FRESH Food Drive“. This initiative (which is entering its 14th year this year!) benefits both the local farmers that sell at market and food recovery and emergency food assistance partners across the DMV.

Here’s how it works:

  1. During the month of November, community members make donations to FRESHFARM at the market information tent at ANY market location, or online.
  2. The week before Thanksgiving, FRESHFARM purchases fresh food at market, which it donates to food recovery and emergency food assistance partners.
  3. Partners prepare Thanksgiving meals for our hungry neighbors, using fresh food from the market.
  4. FRESHFARM’s small farmers earn additional revenue as they head into the winter season.