Thank you for helping to fight hunger in Metro Detroit!

Thanks to our generous customers, English Gardens is donating $12,694 to Forgotten Harvest to fight hunger and food insecurity in Metro Detroit. The money raised will provide 50,776 meals or $ 88,858 worth of groceries for local families.

To raise funds, English Gardens asked customers to round up their purchases to the nearest whole dollar amount or more during the months of August and September. All of the money raised will be donated to Forgotten Harvest and their efforts to relieve hunger and prevent nutritious food waste.

“We’ve been partnering with Forgotten Harvest for many years to raise money for their efforts to reduce hunger throughout our area,” says John Darin, English Gardens president. “This program is always well received by customers.”

Our “Change for Change” (previously “Round Up Your Purchase”) program was launched in 2017, and has raised money to build a Tiny Home, a program with Cass Community Social Services, the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute to support breast cancer research and the American Red Cross.

Oak Park based Forgotten Harvest was formed in 1990 to fight two problems: hunger and waste. Forgotten Harvest “rescued” over 41.5 million pounds of food last year by collecting surplus prepared and perishable food from over 800 locations, including grocery stores, fruit and vegetable markets, restaurants, caterers, dairies, farmers, wholesale food distributors and other Health Department-approved sources. This donated food, which would otherwise go to waste, is delivered free-of-charge to 250+ emergency food providers in the metro Detroit area. Learn more about Forgotten Harvest and how to help drive hunger from our community at www.forgottenharvest.org.