• Farm Share distributes food at no charge and without fees of any kind, to agencies such as soup kitchens, homeless shelters, food banks, churches, etc. Many large groups collect food donations from the public and charge a per-pound "shared maintenance fee" to your local church, soup kitchen, etc. for this food. These fees add up to hundreds of thousands (sometimes millions) of dollars per year. If the agency cannot afford the shared maintenance fees, they do not get the food. Smaller grass roots agencies that cannot afford the shared maintenance fees get left out in the cold. Farm Share gives food to our recipient agencies without fees of any kind.
• Farm Share operates the only charitable produce packinghouse in the Eastern United States. This means that while most groups focus on canned and processed food donations, our mission remains focused on re-packing fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables that would otherwise be thrown away. It costs more to handle this kind of food, but fresh produce is simply more nutritious than canned, and there is a nearly unlimited supply of it being thrown out every year. Farm Share receives food in bulk and has the resources to sort, pack, store and ship tractor trailer loads of fresh food.
• Farm Share has a public/private partnership with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (which provides a warehouse facility, support staff, equipment, services, and State oversight) and with the Florida Department of Corrections (which provides up to 29 inmates and 2 corrections officers daily for sorting, packing and distributing donated food).
• Farm Share provides food to hundreds of non-profit organizations that serve more than 7,000,000 meals monthly reaching more than 2,500,000 families each year. More than 15,000,000 pounds of fresh and nutritious fruits and vegetables are shipped each year to participating agencies throughout the Eastern seaboard.
• Farm Share's administrative costs are kept surprisingly low because of our basic mission philosophy of recovering food that would otherwise go to waste. Through partnerships with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the Florida Department of Corrections we save money on warehousing and labor. Farm Share is located at several of the State Farmers Markets in Florida. The headquarters, a 53,000 square foot packinghouse, is located at the Florida City State Farmers Market (in the heart of Miami-Dade County's agricultural area). This provides easy access to produce farmers, packers, brokers and wholesalers who freely donate fresh fruits and vegetables, saving money on transportation costs. By utilizing the supply of bulk produce donations (42,000 lbs at a time) from Florida farmers, we don't need to spend money on soliciting and collecting individual donations from hundreds or thousands of donation sites. There is no more efficient way to feed hungry people than the Farm Share way.
• Farm Share has the capacity to store more than 12 tractor trailer loads of refrigerated foods and 7 tractor trailer loads of frozen foods as well as dozens of tractor trailer loads of dry foods.

Farm Share delivers 42,000 pounds of fresh and nutritious fruits and vegetables to a Distribution Site in Miami in a single day.
Above, our truck distributing food to over 250,000 families a year