Healthy Foods, Healthy Futures.
We provide nutritious and affordable food with the freshest ingredients possible, making use of seasonal and local produce. Good Harvest also provides job training to individuals with barriers to employment, preparing them for successful careers in the food services industry.
Food & Hunger Services
Hunger is a constant reality for anyone living in poverty. Many individuals and families must make the impossible choice between paying their rent or buying food.
About 23% of Baltimore City residents experience food insecurity.
That is, they lack access to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members, and limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods.
Additionally, one in every three children in Baltimore City live in a food desert and do not receive the healthy foods they need to thrive and succeed. We offer food access services to these children so that they receive healthy supplemental meals.
Good Harvest is a non-profit social enterprise of St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore, which means we are mission-driven rather than profit-driven. Good Harvest caters to the unique needs of community-based agencies that strive to promote healthy futures for their clients – beginning with the most nutritious meals possible.
“Young people are better able to learn in schools thanks to the Good Harvest’s healthy meals.”
— Demaune A. Millard, President and CEO, Family League of Baltimore
Our meals have a homemade taste.
Good Harvest chefs are all professionally trained, and have years of experience in providing large scale meal services.
We are deeply committed to offering quality food, great customer service, and timely delivery, with frequent opportunities for customer feedback.
We focus on providing high quality, great tasting, and nutritious meals featuring:
Fresh ingredients and extensive use of seasonal and local produce and whole grain foods.
No fried foods, artificial trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, or artificial preservatives, colors, flavors, or sweeteners.
Family-style serving: most of our meals are served fresh the way they are at home— which is more flavorful, healthier, and less harmful to the environment than typical single-servings.
Plenty of variety so that those we serve experience a wide selection of foods and benefit from trying
new types of foods.
Training Services
Unemployment and underemployment can be devastating, tearing families apart and leading to poverty, hunger, and homelessness. People who suffer with repeated bouts of unemployment often have barriers to employment that include a lack of job readiness or work skills, low educational attainment, prior substance abuse or past incarceration, mental health challenges, or disabilities.
At our Good Harvest job training program, we help individuals with barriers to employment obtain the skills they need to achieve living wage jobs in the food service industry through our occupational skill training program.
The Good Harvest job training program is an intensive 12-week program that pairs classroom instruction and with real production kitchen experience at Good Harvest. We have over 50 graduates per year to achieve successful careers in the food service industry, allowing them to provide a better future for themselves and their families.
If you want better meals for the people in your care, contact us today at 410-982-0855 or info@goodharvest.org