Our Charity

The Beyond Charity exists to help raise money for worthy causes. In the midst of this COVID-19 epidemic, few causes are more worthy than getting healthy food to those in need.  Please join us in support of AmpleHarvest.org

AmpleHarvest.org envisions an America where millions of gardeners eliminate the waste of food, malnutrition and hunger in their own community.

AmpleHarvest.org diminishes the waste of food and therefore hunger nationwide and as well as climate change, by educating, encouraging and enabling America’s gardeners to donate their surplus harvest to a local food pantry instead of throwing it away or leaving it to rot in the garden thereby helping to eliminate the waste of food, malnutrition and hunger in their own community.

Currently there are 8,644 food pantries across all 50 states registered on AmpleHarvest.org, and more are joining every day.

AmpleHarvest.org has received support and backing from Google Inc., the White House and the USDA, the National Council of Churches, the National Gardening Association, Feeding America and its member food banks, Garden Writers of America as well as numerous faith organizations. It is available to food pantries (and similar feeding programs) and gardeners at no charge.

  • Currently 8,644 AmpleHarvest.org food pantries across all 50 states in more than 4,000 communities can now receive a sustainable and recurring supply of freshly harvested, locally grown food (many for the first time) from area growers – for free!
  • Millions of pantry clients can feed their family fresh instead of processed food thereby reducing the likelihood of diet-related illnesses such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity.
  • Children, now at greater risk of obesity than ever before, are exposed to fresh produce with many learning for the first time that apples do not normally come pre-sliced in cellophane, peas come in pods and not cans and carrots are normally sweet and crunchy.
  • Families are introduced to new varieties of food they may have had no prior access to.
  • The carbon footprint of the pantries is reduced as locally sourced food is used.  This is instead of food with packaging or cans that will need to be disposed of. And it doesn't require trucks to haul it across the country.