Mission

Boulder Food Rescue is a non-profit organization whose goal is to create a more just and less wasteful food system. We facilitate the sustainable redistribution of healthy food to agencies who serve homeless and low-income individuals while educating each other about food justice.

What We Do

Our model of food redistribution by volunteers, bicycles, and bicycle trailers takes less than two hours from food donor to recipient, allowing us to move fresh, surplus produce, to populations with limited access to healthy food. BFR's approach to food access is also participatory and limits barriers to food for recipients. We invest significant time into understanding people's experiences in navigating their own food systems; recipients participate and actively engage with us to have a voice and hand in their food access.

We aim to increase access to fruits and vegetables, remove food access barriers, reduce food waste, improve food rescue practices and build trust in the community. BFR has been able to reach over 21,000 people through or programs of Food Redistribution and No Cost Grocery Programs (NCGP), community run distribution of food in places where people already are. We have 150 active volunteers who deliver food from 20 food donors and to 45 recipient organizations in Boulder, 19 of which are established NCGP in low income housing sites, daycares, and community centers.