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Food Access

Three women standing in front of a food drive setup with a black table, a food truck open in the background, and a colorful chalkboard sign reading 'Food Drive Drop-Off Here!' They are smiling and holding food items, with various food supplies on the table.

We work across Lincoln County to increase food access by:

• Supporting partners and community members with food access resources and emergency food needs.

• Partnering with Lincoln County pantries and community providers to provide education and resource sharing.

• Coordinating and providing food to year-round and seasonal Share Tables and Help Yourself Shelves through weekly food donations and resources.

Click here for the pantry schedule

Farmers Market Promotion Program

Four smiling women standing behind a table at a farmers market booth, with a sign promoting SNAP/EBT card shopping, under a green canopy on a sunny day.

HLC’s Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP) aims to:

• Increase usage of state nutrition benefits, such as SNAP and WIC, when purchasing from local farms, famers markets, and businesses.

• Work with farmers markets and individual farms to increase acceptance of these benefits and promote their availability to the community.

• Educate on and increase use of nutrition incentive programs, like Maine Harvest Bucks, Farm Fresh Rewards, and Maine Senior FarmShare.

Lincoln County Gleaners & Share Tables

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The Lincoln County Gleaners:

• Work with local farmers with the goal of reducing food waste and providing free access to healthy, local produce around the community.

• Contribute to share tables, also known as ‘share sheds’ and ‘help yourself shelves.’ These are located throughout Lincoln County and are accessible throughout the week, some even 24/7.

• Facilitate the Grow-A-Row program where community members can share extra garden bounty to share tables, dropping off their produce to us for processing.

Farmer working in a vegetable garden with lettuce and Swiss chard, with plastic tunnel greenhouses and parked cars in the background on a cloudy day.

Table displaying fresh vegetables at a local farmers market, with baskets of tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, corn, and lettuce, with a sign promoting free vegetables.