Growing Healthy Food Security and Community Engagement
Since 2009
FEEDING LARAMIE VALLEY
Feeding Laramie Valley is a community based, designed, and led 501(c)3 non-profit organization, working for food security and an equitable, just, and sustainable food system in Albany County, Wyoming. Visit us at our Laramie home base in an historical building in beautiful LaBonte Park at 968 N. 9th Street.
ABOUT
A community that cares and shares.
Feeding Laramie Valley (FLV) is committed to working toward creating a sustainable and equitable food system and promoting food security throughout the Rocky Mountain Region—especially here in Albany County in Southeast Wyoming, the community we call home.
Since our founding in 2009, we work to fulfill our mission through increased food production, access, distribution, and educational efforts that encourage community-led food sovereignty. Feeding Laramie Valley grows our own fruits and vegetables, mentors and supports backyard gardeners, develops and helps with management of community gardens, and is deeply committed to partnerships with independent farmers. We share high-quality produce with individuals and families who need it, at no charge to them, with a special focus on elders, children, and people living with disabilities and chronic illness.
We can't do it alone.
Feeding Laramie Valley is an award-winning organization which is deeply involved in community-led food systems projects across Wyoming, the Rocky Mountain Region, and the entire United States. Our efforts contribute to work that celebrates diversity and promotes collaboration, with community members affected by food sovereignty issues, as well as partnering in several community-based action research projects with community leaders, the University of Wyoming, and Cornell University.
How we share in and with our community.
Feeding Laramie Valley programs are dedicated to the mission and philosophy of sharing the best of what we have in order to create collaborative, community-led food systems that are sustainable, equitable, and just. We strive to share only the best produce available to us, knowing that sharing food is different from sharing high quality and nutritious fresh produce.
Join the local food movement.
There are numerous ways you can get involved with Feeding Laramie Valley! Help to grow produce in the FLV gardens or grow produce to share in your own garden; join the summer lunch team to serve healthy meals to local children; make a monetary or in-kind donation; fill weekly produce bags in the summer and winter; help with a community event; represent FLV at Laramie's farmers markets; support our efforts by shopping on the Mobile Market; or photography and videography projects!
Learn more about food across the nation.
Feeding Laramie Valley is invested in supporting rural and urban sustainable agriculture practices, fully accessible food resources, and social equality. We know that others are too, so we have compiled some resources with pages linked to great opportunities and information.
Feeding Laramie Valley
SHARES
Explore all the different ways Feeding Laramie Valley SHARES the best it has to offer with the community and ways community members share the best they have with one another.
Feeding Laramie Valley
GROWS
Learn how Feeding Laramie Valley GROWS to increase food production, access, distribution, and educational efforts that encourage community-led food sovereignty.
Feeding Laramie Valley
INVITES
Feeding Laramie Valley INVITES you to celebrate diversity and promote collaboration through our many events, projects, programs, and research initiatives.
PROGRAMS — What We Do
DONATIONS NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER
Since 2009, Feeding Laramie Valley has been working to ensure food security throughout Albany County, Wyoming. and serving as a model for other counties throughout the state and across the nation. Thousands of people living in our community do not have sufficient access to sufficient food, or food of an adequate quality, to meet their basic needs.
With the staggering rise in fresh produce costs, donations of all sizes are needed now more than ever to support our mission of sustainable local food security are needed now more than ever. Consider the financial support options below, which will help us share fresh produce every week to individuals and families living with food insecurity.
Feeding Laramie Valley Shares is a free, weekly program offering high quality, fresh fruits and vegetables to anyone in the community. Each Shares bag contains enough fresh produce for about 3 days of the USDA daily recommendation for each person in the household. The value of donation amounts listed below are based on the average, direct wholesale cost of high quality produce. The produce we provide is grown and harvested in our own production gardens in Laramie, Wyoming; is purchased wholesale from local and regional gardeners; and is donated by local community gardeners and farmers.
$5 • 1 shares bag for 1 person
$10 • 1 shares bag for a couple
$20 • 1 shares bag for a family of 4
$50 • 10 weeks of shares bags for 1 person
$100 • 10 weeks of shares bags for a couple
$200 • 10 weeks of shares bags for a family of 4
We offer many opportunities to get involved with our sustainable food security efforts. Besides support us financially, you can volunteer, or donate bought or grown produce with us. Bring your donations to our building during normal hours or to our booth at the Laramie Farmer's Market.
See other ways you can help here.
If you have or anticipate having immediate food security needs, click here for more information about FLV Shares.
Click the "Donate" button for secure payments on PayPal or with a credit/debit card;
or send a check to Feeding Laramie Valley, P.O. Box 536, Laramie WY 82073.
Whatever your reason for donating and however you choose to share the best of what you have, we're grateful for your support. Any amount will also be helping us continue our broad sweep of services, such as summer children's meals, food hubs, community gardens, Shares, and so much more.
THANK YOU!
GET INVOLVED
Feeding Laramie Valley is a proud host to an array of AmeriCorps positions (AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps VISTA, and AmeriCorps NCCC) throughout the year and seasonally.
In addition to AmeriCorps, we offers paid and college-credit internships, and welcome volunteers all year round for a variety of tasks, projects and events. Join the team today!
CONTACT
Inquiries
For any inquiries, questions, or recommendations:
Call us at 307.223.4399
Email us at info@feedinglaramievalley.org
Main Office
Feeding Laramie Valley
Building at LaBonte Park
968 N. 9th St.
Laramie, WY 82072
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 536
Laramie, WY 82073