Who We Are
Hunger runs rampant in our society, and we are passionate about changing that.
StarkFresh’s mission is to tackle the causes of hunger by creating realistic pathways out of poverty.
What We Do
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Affordable, accessible retail food solutions in areas of food apartheid, designed to meet the immediate needs of the community in which they are placed.
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One path to better health and greater food security is through growing your own food. To make this task less daunting, our seed library offers a selection of free vegetable seed packets.
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Our Food Incubation Center is an accessible environment where we ‘grow’ food entrepreneurs, helping them develop strong businesses so they can secure their own economic futures with Food Safety Training, Shared-use Commercial Kitchen, and our Business Development Boot Camp.
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Food justice IS social justice, and our Campus in downtown Canton, Ohio, offers a multi-functional space where community members work together to tackle the root causes of hunger. Housed within the Campus are StarkFresh headquarters, our Food Incubation Center, Indoor Urban Farms and one of our Grocery Stores.
Why We Do What We Do
Nearly 58,000 people in Stark County, Ohio are suffering from food insecurity and don’t know what or when their next meal will be.
This includes almost more than one in four of the county’s children.
Over 49,000 residents are struggling with poverty.
How You Can Be Involved
Passionate about eradicating hunger? Join us.
You can help in so many ways: by volunteering, making donations, shopping our stores, or even sharing the work we do with others.
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