Cumberland County Food Security Council

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Cumberland County Food Security Council

Educating, Advocating, and taking Action for a Hunger Free Cumberland County. Everyone is welcome!

Please join us at our next bi-monthly council meeting (check our 'Events' section to see when and where the next meeting will be held). The CC Food Security Council is made up of engaged citizens, community leaders, and representatives from local organizations that are leading the fight against hunger in Cumberland County and across Maine. Our efforts focus on educating our community about why our

neighbors are food insecure and what can be done to create greater food security in our county. We advocate for policy changes and decision-making that support systemic change and ground level action. We believe that we can accomplish more together and that collaborative advocacy and collective action can produce a hunger-free Maine.

02/19/2026

Nourish your community with ! Apply to be a School Nutrition corps member in Southern Maine and work with CCFSC, our partnering school districts, and local communities to promote nourishing school food environments.

School Nutrition corps members spend one year connecting with food service directors, community partners, farmers, and school district leaders to:
🥕Support getting more local foods onto the lunch line
🥕Drive menu development that highlights nourishing & culturally important school meals (including our partnership with )
🥕 Ensure school communities celebrate food from hallways to classrooms to the cafeteria

Apply by March 30: foodcorps.org/apply

10/20/2025

We were excited to see CCFSC’s gleaning program featured in the Portland Press Herald this past Sunday!

Thanks for the attention to hunger in Maine, for hosting us this year, and YOU all for keeping the gleaning engine running!

Check out the article in the linktree in our bio.

10/06/2025

Vote for CCFSC!

Every day of October you can support CCFSC by voting for us in Town & Country Federal Credit Union’s 2025 Better Neighbor Fund.

🗳️Vote at the link in our bio once a day until October 31!

Help us create a more just and equitable food system in Cumberland County and beyond🍎

09/08/2025

Fall updates from the gleaming program! Apples are here, corn is abundant, and our amazing volunteers are harvesting and trucking the freshest, most local food you’ll find around the county.

Have some more space in your fall schedule, now that summer travels are coming to an end? Get in touch! DM or email [email protected] to sign up, or head over to our volunteer signup form on the link tree in our bio.

08/20/2025

Portland Public Schools Food Fund Grant Applications are open August 25 to October 1, 2025!

The PPS Food Fund provides community members the opportunity to invest in grassroots, school-based projects that build food security for PPS students and their families. If you’ve got a project idea, check out the Food Fund Request for Proposals.

We are accepting requests up to $1500. Find more information and apply at the link in our bio!

08/19/2025

What do a T-Rex and our gleaning truck have in common? The amount of pounds they haul around town!

Help us continue our gleaning program this season by volunteering in the fields and farmers markets collecting produce & distributing it to our partners around Cumberland County.

The notable T-Rex housed at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, “Sue,” is estimated to have weighed about 19,400 pounds while alive.

07/09/2025

Gleaning crew is turning OUT this summer! Join us at the link in bio to get outside & get fresh produce to our communities.

07/02/2025

Join us at Liberation Farms for a conversation facilitated by Jaime Garzon, Professor with University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension on Goat and Chicken Pasture Rotation! The event will take place on Monday, July 14th at 1 PM- 3 PM. Liberation Farms is located at Liberation Farms 1002 Gardiner Rd, Wales, ME 04280.

Link to register (also in our bio): https://forms.gle/Ta7epiozPHWaSNPWA

This event is for anyone interested in pasture grazing management systems for raising goats and chickens. There will be a pasture walk where we will exchange ideas among producers who already have these systems, discuss what has worked for them, what hasn't, and what recommendations they have for novices.

06/17/2025

Gleaning season is HERE! Come hang out with bees & buds (of both the horticultural and human kind) while we feed our communities.

Regular volunteer opportunities M, T, W and S—with plenty of rapid response calls as farms give us the heads up a day or two in advance.

Sign up at the linktree in bio. See you soon!

03/26/2025

As some of you may know, after four seasons, Adele Wise will be moving on from her position as the Local Food Access Manager to a role with MOFGA. Marly Davies will also be moving on from the Gleaning Assistant position to focus on her role as a landscape designer.

To help build our Local Food Access Program, consider applying and share these two positions! Full job descriptions can be found in the link in our bio or on our website.

Address

494 US-Route 1
Yarmouth, ME

Telephone

+12079393854

Website

http://www.ccfoodsecurity.org/

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