Washington Food Hub Network
The Washington Food Hub Network (WFHN) is a group of food hubs throughout Washington state that came together thanks to Western Washington Food System Partnership.
Purpose
The purpose of Washington Food Hub Network is to support the emergence, activities and collaboration between food hubs in Washington State.
Goals/Objectives
- Create a viable food distribution network based on food hubs
- Foster collaboration between food hubs
- Be a regional community of practice for hubs to come together and support each other
- Advocate for legislation and funding in support of food hubs
- Support new and emerging food hub start-ups
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Washington Food Hub Network Members
The following hubs are members of the Washington Food Hub Network.
- Puget Sound Food Hub Cooperative
Based in Mount Vernon, Washington, the PSFHC has been around in one form or another since 2010. The food hub provides marketing, distribution, and an online wholesale market platform to over sixty active member farms and over twenty value-added vendors, along with a collection of other services. PSFHC’s wholesale customers include schools, restaurants, institutional food service companies, retail grocery stores, cooperatives, and hunger relief organizations throughout the region surrounding Puget Sound.
Website: https://www.pugetsoundfoodhub.com/
- San Juan Islands Food Hub
The San Juan Islands Food Hub is an online marketplace for local food and agricultural products. Customers on Lopez, Orcas, and San Juan can buy directly from farmers and food producers across the county on one convenient storefront and receive their orders at a weekly pick-up on each island. San Juan Islands Food Hub began operations in 2020, and aims to support the folks who feed us and provide safe access to fresh local food.
Website:https://sjifh.com/
- Whidbey Island Grown Cooperative
Whidbey Island Grown Cooperative (WIGC) operates a year-round Food Hub launched in May 2020. Over 45 local and regional producers sell their products to a customer base spread across a 52 mile long, rural island. They connect growers and customers with three producer aggregation sites, four order distribution sites, and deliveries to businesses, expanding their producers’ customer bases and allowing island residents to eat food grown across the island and the surrounding region. WIGC also manages a place-based marketing brand, organizes Eat Local Month each September to promote agritourism and healthy local eating, and is building a cold storage facility for farmers to expand their fall and winter produce offerings.
Website: https://www.whidbeyislandgrown.com/
- Kitsap Fresh
Kitsap Fresh was founded in 2015, and provides Kitsap County residents with an online farmers market co-op dedicated to Kitsap grown goods. The cooperative is comprised of over 50 local farms and food producers selling from one public online storefront. Customers can choose neighborhood pick-up or home delivery.
Website: https://kitsapfresh.org/
- Southwest Washington Food Hub
Southwest Washington Food Hub, a pool of the Southwest Washington Growers Cooperative, began operations in 2020 at a Tumwater warehouse. The hub operates three main programs: wholesale distribution including to schools and restaurants, direct-to-consumer multi-farm boxes, and food access distribution to food banks and other aid organizations. The cooperative has over 30 producer members. The Southwest Washington Growers Cooperative also has a grain pool, which specializes in marketing, aggregating and distributing grains for brewing and distilling.
Website: https://swwafoodhub.com/
- LINC Foods
LOCAL INLAND NORTHWEST COOPERATIVE (LINC Foods) is a worker and farmer owned food hub based in Spokane, WA. The coop has over 60 producer members, and has two main food hub operations: wholesale distribution, and a multi-farm box program consisting of a mixed produce box, and a mixed protein box, both of which are distributed at various convenient pick-up locations throughout the Spokane region.
Website: http://www.lincfoods.com/
Head over to our events and classes page for information about WFHN’s bi-monthly meetings, all Washington food hubs are welcome to attend.