Hidden Harvest

Mission: To alleviate hunger and end food waste in the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing a safe and coordinated system of rescuing surplus food and redistributing it to feed people in need.

Hidden Harvest became an independent non-profit organization in 1998. The organization moved into a larger facility at 319 Hayden Street, which was the former corporate headquarters for the Galen E Wilson Petroleum Company (we leased the building for $1 a month). We have purchased two additional trucks for our food pick ups and deliveries and we expanded our service area to include the Bay and Midland area. HIDDEN HARVEST moved into a new home in 2005, nearly 20 years ago. The Hunger Solution Center provides HIDDEN HARVEST with a 4 bay garage, a 7,000 square foot warehouse, conference rooms and work area. Part of our 5 year plan was to distribute more than 2,000,000 pounds of surplus food by 2010. We have exceeded that goal because of our kind donors and continue to grow.

What we are most proud of is that we serve more than 197 agencies and more than 300 food donors contribute healthy surplus food to Hidden Harvest. In our first year we distributed 59,852 pounds of food. We now average more than 250,000 pounds of food per month and again this year we are on target to exceed, yet again, 3 million pounds of surplus food to our recipient agencies in the Great Lakes Bay Region.