{"id":5062727,"date":"2025-07-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walatinonews.com\/?p=5062727"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T08:00:00","slug":"partnership-provides-fresh-nutritious-food-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/waln\/2025\/07\/14\/partnership-provides-fresh-nutritious-food-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnership Provides Fresh, Nutritious Food for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The University of Washington Food Pantry, with produce from the UW Farm, serves as a free resource in response to food insecurity for UW students, staff, and faculty to visit and receive food assistance during the work week \u2013 open Monday through Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aisling Doyle Wade supervises a harvest with volunteers at the Mercer Court growing site, which is one of three on-campus growing sites at the University of Washington in Seattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Locally grown, the UW Farm donates a portion of its harvest to the UW Food Pantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c&#8230;One of the number one things that people ask for is fresh produce\u2026 there\u2019s just a huge need for produce,\u201d said Doyle Wade, production manager of the UW Farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c&#8230;We donate about a third of the food that we produce, that was kind of last year&#8217;s statistics. We donate everything that we don&#8217;t sell. And so, the more food we grow, the more we can donate, and that relationship with the pantry, emerging over the last 10 years or so, that has become part of the mission for us to kind of help meet this food security need on campus,\u201d said Doyle Wade. \u201cProduce as much food as we can, so that we can donate as much food as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doyle Wade took out her laptop to check the progress of the numbers on the amount of food that the UW Farm has donated so far this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis year, so far, we\u2019ve already donated 652 pounds, not all of that went to the pantry though \u2013 some of that went to volunteers and a couple other things,\u201d said Doyle Wade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doyle Wade describes the partnership that the UW Farm has with the UW Food Pantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re just proud of that relationship and of doing what we can to meet as much of that need as possible because food just keeps getting more and more expensive. Produce is really expensive, and if you\u2019re really strapped for cash, produce is probably not high on the priority list in terms of the amount of calories you can get per dollar,\u201d said Doyle Wade. \u201cBut that\u2019s also a difficult thing because we know how important produce is for health, for proper functioning of our bodies, and just\u2026 both cognitive function and also just the health of the rest of our bodies. Nutrient-dense produce is really important.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"482\" height=\"640\" data-id=\"5062733\" src=\"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/waln\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/IMG_3629.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5062733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/waln\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/IMG_3629.jpg 482w, https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/waln\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/IMG_3629-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Throughout the year, the UW Farm grows their very own produce on campus. This particular section of a UW Farm growing site is located on the UW Seattle campus at Mercer Court \u2013 between undergraduate housing apartment buildings C and D.\u00a0<br>(<em>Rochelle Dimalanta \/ University of Washington Student Journalist)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"464\" height=\"640\" data-id=\"5062736\" src=\"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/waln\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/IMG_3630.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5062736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/waln\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/IMG_3630.jpg 464w, https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/waln\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/IMG_3630-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The fridge in the UW Food Pantry holds the produce that is provided by the UW Farm. This produce serves as a fresh option for people to pick up at the pantry, both nutritious and grown locally on the UW Seattle campus.<br>(<em>Rochelle Dimalanta \/ University of Washington Student Journalist)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-2023-report-by-public-health-seattle-king-county-found-that-27-of-hispanic-latino-adults-experienced-food-insecurity-defined-as-not-having-enough-to-eat-compared-to-10-of-all-adults-in-the-county\">A 2023 report by Public Health \u2013 Seattle &amp; King County found that 27\u202f% of Hispanic\/Latino adults experienced food insecurity\u2014defined as not having enough to eat\u2014compared to 10\u202f% of all adults in the county.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Doyle Wade shares her insight into locally farmed produce and the value of its accessibility for people, as well as the impacts it has on the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think we need more people growing it and making it accessible locally,\u201d said Doyle Wade. \u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even with not that much space and not that much resource, in an urban environment, you can grow quite a bit of food, and you can be kind of localizing or creating more access to food that otherwise is really expensive. Might not be available in your neighborhood depending on what grocery stores there are and has a big environmental cost because it\u2019s coming from very far away and a lot of it is getting wasted and all these other things, and has a big, potentially social cost depending on the labor practices that are used on that farm \u2013 all of the people in that chain to get you that food.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DEQSXO3SZn2\/?img_index=3&amp;igsh=OGRvNnJ1Y3l3enc5\"><u>UW Farm\u2019s Instagram post titled, \u2018UW FARM 2024 WRAPPED!\u2019<\/u><\/a>, their statistics show that the UW Farm grew 20,571 pounds of produce and donated 6,871 pounds of food last year amongst four entities: UW Events, the Colored Girls Garden Club South Seattle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Free Food Pantry, UW Farm Volunteers &amp; Staff, and at the top of the list \u2013 their number one entity to donate to was the UW Food Pantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt the food pantry, we typically provide between two to three days worth of food resources. We also provide hygiene products as well,\u201d said Angelina Durbin, food recovery coordinator of the UW Food Pantry. \u201cIt really depends on how the specific visitor chooses to use their points. We do a point choice system at the pantry, so every visitor who comes in will get eight points per week unless they&#8217;re a parent or caregiver, they&#8217;ll get up to 13 points per week. And so, everything around the pantry is labeled with the amount of points it has.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Durbin continued to say, \u201cAll of our ready-to-eat items from our food recovery program that I manage are all zero points, because we don&#8217;t have to pay any money to get those items and they&#8217;re recovered, we don&#8217;t want people to be using their points on them, is essentially the logic we use behind that. So, if there are a lot of ready-to-eats, a lot of produce, we also make zero points in the pantry. Sometimes you can get a lot more, but on days where we have a little bit less, it&#8217;s probably around two to three days worth of food.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DDvBCVoTLTC\/?igsh=MXZhM2ZscW91eHg0Mw%3D%3D\"><u>UW Food Pantry\u2019s Instagram post titled, \u2018UW Food Pantry Wrapped &#8211; Autumn<\/u><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DDvBCVoTLTC\/?igsh=MXZhM2ZscW91eHg0Mw%3D%3D\"><u>Quarter 2024\u2019<\/u><\/a>, their statistics show that in Autumn 2024, they had a total of 7,561 visitors and that they received 1,407 pounds of food from the UW Farm that quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe see around 700 visitors weekly, and so around 7,000 unique visits throughout the quarter. Every single year in Autumn, we see that number continue to increase \u2013 our visits have almost increased exponentially in the past few years,\u201d said Durbin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">University of Washington students, staff, and faculty who experience food insecurity can visit the UW Food Pantry if they are interested in and in need of receiving free food assistance from this on-campus resource.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/anyhungryhusky\/the-uw-food-pantry\/\"><u>UW Food Pantry website<\/u><\/a>, for Spring Quarter 2025, the pantry is open on Mondays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cover Photo: The University of Washington Food Pantry, located at 1311 NE 41st St., welcomes students, staff, and faculty to receive food assistance. In response to food insecurity, the UW Food Pantry serves as an on-campus resource for anyone with a valid UW ID.&nbsp;(<em>Rochelle Dimalanta \/ University of Washington Student Journalist)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about the UW Farm, visit their website at<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/botanicgardens.uw.edu\/center-for-urban-horticulture\/gardens\/uw-farm\/\">https:\/\/botanicgardens.uw.edu\/center-for-urban-horticulture\/gardens\/uw-farm\/<\/a>, and follow them on Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uwfarm\/?hl=en\"><u>@uwfarm<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about the UW Food Pantry, visit their website at<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/anyhungryhusky\/the-uw-food-pantry\/\"><u>https:\/\/www.washington.edu\/anyhungryhusky\/the-uw-food-pantry\/<\/u><\/a>, and follow them on Instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uwfoodpantry\/?hl=en\"><u>@uwfoodpantry<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"554\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/waln\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/IMG_3628.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5062732\" style=\"width:125px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/waln\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/IMG_3628.jpg 554w, https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/waln\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/IMG_3628-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/muckrack.com\/rochelle-dimalanta\" title=\"\">Rochelle Dimalanta<\/a> is a student journalist from the University of Washington. She can be reached at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:rdima12@uw.edu\"><em>rdima12@uw.edu.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Rochelle was one of the students in the \u201cMedia Responsibility in a Diverse Society\u201d class, taught by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hugobalta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hugo Balta<\/a>. 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