From Farm to Your Door

Emily Kunisch — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:23:19 +0000

For those who dread going to the grocery store or are tired of eating the same thing all the time, Hungry Harvest is just the fix. Not only is it less expensive than grocery-store produce, it’s also higher quality. With its ever-changing products, it will make you try new fruits and veggies and mix up your regular recipes. The box included three heads of broccoli, a bunch of asparagus, red potatoes, a large head of romaine lettuce, three squash, three pears, and two blood oranges. Not bad for just $15.

Meet the conscious company changing the traditional food system while eliminating food waste and working to end hunger. Hungry Harvest, headquartered in Baltimore City, delivers sustainable, cost-efficient produce and other grocery items right to your door each week. Their boxes are completely customizable to fit your needs, with options to feed one person up to a group of five. Plus, you can select weekly add-ons from their marketplace, such as dairy and bakery products, so you can nix or limit your grocery-store visits. To fully immerse in the Hungry Harvest experience, we tested out their services and ate healthy for the week.

To sum up the experience, it was an easy contact-free delivery, affordable, sustainable, and—most importantly—tasty. Who doesn’t enjoy delicious convenience?

Designed with the Community in Mind

With every box delivered, Hungry Harvest gets boxes in the hands of those in need. Since food insecurity is one of the many troubles exacerbated by the pandemic, Hungry Harvest shifted their traditional model to an emergency-box model, donating more than 50,000 boxes to those in need in the Baltimore area. They’ve also partnered with local organizations like the University of Maryland Medical System and the YMCA of Central Maryland to distribute produce in 15 locations across the region. On top of feeding food-insecure communities, Hungry Harvest is encouraging healthy eating. Their good deeds are market-specific—partnering with hunger-focused philanthropies in different communities and distributing boxes along the East Coast to aid in the fight against hunger.

No Produce Left Behind

According to Hungry Harvest, “Every year, 40 percent of food goes to waste in this country. Twenty billion pounds of that is produce that’s lost before it ever leaves the farm.” Their solution? Rescuing produce. By collecting food that is deemed imperfect (i.e. incorrect size, weight, color, etc.), saving unused product from a surplus or overproduction of a harvest, and working with wholesalers who either overpurchased or disapproved of the product, Hungry Harvest has prevented millions of pounds of perfectly edible produce from going to waste.

Order your fresh produce box and receive 50 percent off using the code BALTIMORE50.

Love what you taste? Join Hungry Harvest’s referral program and share your unique code with friends and family for $10 off their first order.

Source

Local Company Hungry Harvest to be Featured on Shark Tank

Jess Mayhugh — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 11:28:00 +0000

Courtesy of Hungry Harvest

For every box that a customer purchases, an additional two pounds of food gets donated to area nonprofits, like Moveable Feast or the Maryland Food Bank, or helps Hungry Harvest host free farmers’ markets in places like West Baltimore. To date, the company has 700 active subscribers.

“Our biggest hurdle is explaining what surplus produce is and convincing people that it’s fresh,” Lutz says. “In reality, it’s a lot of food that get rejected due to odd shape or size, or just at random. A lot of our produce is fresher than what you get at the grocery store because it hasn’t been sitting out.”

The company’s real test will come when Shark Tank stars decide if it’s investment-worthy. Lutz pitched them back in June and said that it was a nerve-wracking experience.

“I do press and talk to investors all the time, but this was a little different,” he says with a laugh. “You’re standing in front of five famous people, while 8 million more people are watching, trying to convince them to give you money. It’s not easy.”

Obviously Lutz could not reveal the outcome of his pitch, but he says he “nailed it.” “We’ll have to see what editing does. While it’s a real negotiation, it’s still reality TV. It’s their job to keep it dramatic.”

Watch all the dramatics unfold this Friday at 9 p.m. In the meantime, you can support Hungry Harvest, which, to date, has donated more than 100,000 pounds of food to those in need.

Source

Hungry Harvest – Baltimore Magazine

From Farm to Your Door

Local Company Hungry Harvest to be Featured on Shark Tank