Meet Dana! Long-time Davis resident and Yolo Food Bank Hunger Hero volunteer, Dana Armstrong Hughes is the site lead for our “Eat Well Yolo” free, fresh food distribution at University Covenant Church in Davis. She began volunteering with us over two years ago in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Growing up, I took food production […]

During a tour and press conference at Yolo Food Bank on July 27, United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced the signing of a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the State of California under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA), designed to bolster local food and agricultural […]

Meet Pati! Pati is a Dunnigan resident who first encountered Yolo Food Bank over a decade ago as a food recipient. Now she’s a Hunger Hero volunteer for Yolo Food Bank and has gotten her ENTIRE family to volunteer too! She’s the community’s go-to person when individuals have questions about food assistance programs and resources. […]

What is America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital without the people who harvest, process, transport, prepare, and serve our food? Food system workers were designated “essential” by the federal and state government at the onset of the pandemic, yet they’ve been our most essential workers all along, deserving of an equitable food system representative of their needs. “Flipping the […]

Yolo Food Bank has entered into a $75,000 contract with the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at California State University, Sacramento that will set the foundation for a countywide food security plan to guide the Food Bank and its partners as they collaborate to increase food and nutrition security and improve health outcomes for vulnerable […]