Slide Show: Food Chain
In 2009, Montecucco Farms co-owners and brothers Brian and Jason Montecucco donated 25 tons of beets, or 5 percent of the annual yield; here, Brian holds a few pounds’ worth of a recent harvest. “It’s simple,” says Jason. “People need food. We have it
Photography by Daniel Root
Nina Diouf, kitchen co-manager at Sisters of the Road, stirs up the morning’s meals. Some customers pay the $1.25 the kitchen charges for a meal (25 cents more for a drink), but just as often they pitch in, emptying trash, cleaning tables, or doing wh
Photography by Daniel Root
Carlos Bebolla balances atop the air circulation pipes of Hale Farms’ potato storage shed in Boardman, Oregon. The farm is part of the Farmers Ending Hunger network, which will deliver two million pounds of fully processed crops and livestock to the O
Photography by Stuart Mullenberg
Duane Ditchen (pictured) and his twin brother, Darrin, of Golden Valley East in Silverton, joined four other growers to launch Farmers Ending Hunger in 2006. Their first act as an organization was to donate 173,000 pounds of green peas to the Oregon F
Photography by Stuart Mullenberg
Greg Satrum donates a pallet of eggs (720 dozen) to the Oregon Food Bank every week. They’re collected from chickens at Willamette Egg Farms, the farm his great-uncle and great-grandfather started in Canby 75 years ago.
Photography by Stuart Mullenberg
In 2009, volunteers donated 93,000 hours of work at the Oregon Food Bank’s 108,000-square-foot North Portland warehouse—the equivalent of 45 full-time employees and $1.5 million in pay. In a typical year, Stemilt Growers of Wenatchee, Washington, sell
Photography by Lincoln Barbour
Photography by Lincoln Barbour
Residents of downtown Portland’s Blanchet House can stay as long as four months if they “work the floor,” serving some 600 meals each day. They are typically joined by 10 volunteers at every meal. The Oregon Food Bank provides about 10 percent of the
Photography by Steven Scardina
For the past year, Bob and Michelle Betcone and their son, Brian, have been delivering food to the hungry through their church, All Saints Parish. Volunteer efforts like theirs are the final step in a chain that often begins in the fields of farms acr
Photography by Brian Lee
About the photographers: Steven Scardina has long volunteered at St. Vincent de Paul’s food pantry, one of the 935 agencies that belong to the Oregon Food Bank’s network. So when he and Lincoln Barbour, Brian Lee, Stuart Mullenberg, a
Photography by Brian Lee
