Mission

Everyone's Harvest's mission is to provide access to healthy, affordable fruits and vegetables through certified farmers’ markets and community food programs.

The Big Idea

Everyone's Harvest (EH) catalyzes “Food is Medicine” programs in Monterey County, providing local produce to people from low-income backgrounds experiencing nutrition insecurity. Ten years ago, EH founded FreshRx, partnering with physicians to provide weekly produce prescriptions from local farmers at EH’s farmers’ markets in Salinas, Marina, Pacific Grove, and Seaside. Taking Food is Medicine from theory to practice, FreshRx empowers patients with diet-related diseases to improve health outcomes. The EH model of integrating food and nutrition interventions into preventive healthcare contributed to Medi-Cal health insurance now accepting medically-supportive food for patients with diet-related illnesses. FreshRx and EH’s other successful community food programs, Market Match and Edible Education, are now complemented by Farms Together, a new farm-direct produce box, accessible to families without sufficient income for basic needs. With Farms Together distributing weekly produce boxes, the programs will continue expanding the number of families improving health outcomes with locally grown produce.

I want to first thank all the people who make this program possible for my family. This program is very important because it is helping us get vegetables to our eating table, and the experience I had at the farmers market was amazing. They have good fruit, vegetables, nuts and also all the people are wonderful and kind. This program is truly a blessing and wonder at this time for my family.

- Rocio Guerrero