Village Harvest, March 20, 2019 (full size gallery)
A moderate turnout at 100 but a wide variety of foods at over 2,100 pounds. characterized March’s Village Harvest. We served assorted meats, onions, mixed spaghetti noodles and pasta, yogurt crackers, carrots, coffee, assorted juices plus lots of canned items: sweet potatoes green beans collards spaghetti sauce, chili. Grocery products were 71% of the total, meat 10%, produce 9% and drink and dairy 10%.
We had more food in March, 2019 to distribute than at any time since May, 2018. Total pounds were 2,111 in March. For the quarter we distributed 4,890 pounds. While under 2018’s 5,474 pounds, it was well above 2017 (3,404 pounds) and 2016 (2,490 pounds).
Considering per person for Q1, 2019 represented the highest distribution of pounds per person during quarter 1 for the last 4 years.
The value per shopper has been over $90 for the last two years based on $6 per pound.
Helping the value and the number of pounds per person is a smaller number of shoppers. It is at 322 for the first quarter, 2019 compared to between 370’s and 380’s in the last two years. We have not called people in the last two years relying upon them to come as needed
