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"We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them."

First Lady Michelle Obama
9/13/2010
"The challenge in America is not a lack of healthy food. Rather it is making healthy food readily available to those least able to afford it.

The AmpleHarvest.org Campaign envisions an America where millions of gardeners eliminate malnutrition and hunger in their own community using only their backyard gardens".

AmpleHarvest.org Founder/CNN Hero Gary Oppenheimer
5/20/2010
What We Do
The AmpleHarvest.org Campaign is a national effort utilizing the Internet that enables 40+ million Americans who grow food in home gardens to easily donate their excess harvest to registered local food pantries spread across all 50 states.

Why We Do It
One out of six Americans needs food assistance, but can't get fresh produce from the local food pantry, while, millions of American homeowners grow more food in their backyard gardens than they can possibly use.
It Doesn't Have to Be This Way!
AmpleHarvest.org envisions an America where millions of gardeners eliminate malnutrition and hunger in their own community using only their backyard gardens.

Let's Move! and AmpleHarvest.org - Working Together

Let's Move! encourages all Americans to eat healthy food but for millons of American families, fresh produce is not available from the local food pantry they rely on.
At the same time, 40 million Americans grow food in their home garden - often more than they can use, preserve or give to friends.

The AmpleHarvest.org Campaign enables growers' to share their excess garden bounty with a neighborhood food pantry.

By reaching into their backyard instead of their back pocket to help their neighbors in need, a growers freshly harvested food is made available for the first time at a neighborhood food pantry thereby improving the nurtitional quality of the food distributed....without spending a dime.

You can help more pantries receive more garden produce by helping your neighborhood food pantry register at AmpleHarvest.org. Click here to learn how.

Michelle Obama urges all Americans to eat healthy food.

AmpleHarvest.org makes that possible for millions of Americans.


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