January 2nd, 20260
As the holiday season unfolds, faith communities across Metro Detroit are coming together to ensure hundreds of local families experience warmth, generosity and connection. An initiative is set to combat the pressure low-income families face during the holiday season in the Detroit area and its surrounding neighborhoods. The Michigan...
October 5th, 20250By Layla McMurtrie
At a time when many Southeast Michigan families are turning to food banks for help, federal support is beginning to dwindle.
Earlier this year, Gleaners Community Food Bank, founded in 1979, learned it would be receiving 1 million fewer pounds of food than expected. The shortfall stems from cuts to USDA programs...
July 22nd, 20220Poor rainfall, fuel shortages, soaring fertilizer prices: It's been a bad year for farmers in northeastern Syria, where a disappointing wheat crop looks set to deal another blow to food supplies in a country grappling with climate change and war.
Farmer Mohamed Hussein said he planted around a fifth of the area he would usually...
June 22nd, 20220DETROIT — Gleaners Community Food Bank is launching its Summer Food Service Program, with some 69 summer distribution sites beginning the week of June 20.
The program will complement Gleaners’ food distribution programs through its more than 600-member partner network and community mobile distribution sites to meet hunger needs...
December 7th, 20210LANSING — According to a new report by Hunger Free America, more than 1 million Michigan residents, including more than one in six children, struggle with hunger.
“It’s heartbreaking that because of low wages and inadequate safety new programs in the state, Michigan is in the midst of a hunger crisis,” Joel Berg, CEO of...
February 16th, 20180By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
MI Asian
"Before it was even called urban gardening, my parents kept a garden in the backyard ever since I was a kid," said Shane Bernardo, a life-long Detroit resident and a consultant, facilitator and speaker actively involved in food justice. "So I learned at a very early age how strongly my family...
