Local Seattle Intiatives: Solid Ground Hunger Action Center

• Apple Corps supports nutrition and physical activity programs, policies and partnerships at Seattle Elementary Schools, creating healthy school environments and communities.
  
  
• Cooking Matters offers FREE cooking classes, taught by volunteer chefs and nutritionists, to help individuals and their families on a limited budget prepare nutritious, low-cost meals.
  
  
• Food Resources provides technical assistance and administrative services to the Seattle Food Committee (a coalition of the 27 Seattle food banks serving those in need with supplemental food bags). Food Resources' staff deliver food to member food banks, develop nutrition resources, and provide assistance with the day-to-day operations of running a food bank.
  
  
• Food Security for Children provides nutritious, age-appropriate foods for infants and children whose families use Seattle food banks, as well as nutrition information and resources for low-income parents of children under five years old at food banks and community centers throughout Seattle. Food Security for Children projects include:
  Baby Boost Information Fairs
  Baby Cupboards
  Toddler Feeding Project
  
  
• Grocery Delivery Project coordinates grocery delivery for seniors and people living with disabilities who are residents of selected Seattle Housing Authority buildings.
  
  
• Lettuce Link helps people learn to grow organic produce, and encourages gardeners to donate their gardens' and fruit trees' bounty to local food banks through the following projects:
  Community Fruit Tree Harvest
  Marra Farm Giving Garden
  P-Patch Growing & Giving