![]() “Before this crisis, there were 20 billion pounds of produce going to waste and nearly 50 million Americans who were food insecure and didn’t have access to produce. “It’s always been our mission to fight waste and hunger,” says Lutz. He dropped off about 300 pounds of the snacking fruit for 140 nurses and staff at Washington Hospital Center, and another 300 pounds of fruit to Hotel Revival. Lutz himself has made the rounds to drop off cases of apples, bananas, oranges and other produce to people directly impacted by COVID-19. The company is also partnering with the University of Maryland Medical System, community organization 4M圜ity, and efforts spearheaded by Baltimore’s Hotel Revival, among others, to provide hundreds of boxes to families and service industry workers. Lutz’s company joined Beyond Meat and Baltimore’s H&S Bakery to distribute plant-based burgers, buns and other food to local families and senior centers in the Baltimore area. The 16-week program provides emergency food to 6,000 people, with priority given to those at higher risk for COVID-19 complications. ![]() Hungry Harvest is working with Johns Hopkins University to provide thousands of the emergency food boxes for the East Baltimore COVID-19 Food Access Initiative. “It’s been wonderful to see this community of people that we typically work with come together and rally around the cause to get people food.” “We’re in a lucky position where we have food and we have the operational capabilities to put these boxes together,” says Lutz. The company has also partnered with community organizations, pivoting an existing program to offer a new Emergency Food Box at very low cost to partners that distribute them to people in need. Hungry Harvest has more than doubled its charitable giving since COVID-19 took hold in the region, and has been distributing as much as 5,000 pounds of free produce a week to those who need it most. Meanwhile, Lutz has continued to ramp up the other half of his company’s mission: fighting hunger. Hungry Harvest has seen demand expand so much that the company has been adding employees and temporarily was forced to stop taking on new customers to focus on existing ones. The 2014 Maryland Smith grad’s Baltimore-based Hungry Harvest delivers produce that would have been wasted to customers’ homes – a service that’s more attractive than ever with stay-at-home orders in place. ![]() Even amid a global pandemic, Evan Lutz’s business is booming. ![]()
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