Jeremy Farmer is executive director at Just Food, 1200 E. 11th Street. by Kevin Anderson
Jeremy Farmer, executive director of Just Food, will be available March 1 to discuss food insecurity in Douglas County.
He will be participating in an online chat at 2 p.m. on WellCommons.com. You can submit questions at anytime at WellCommons.com/chats. Make sure to log back on to WellCommons.com during or after the chat to see if your question was answered.
Just Food is the food bank for the county. In 2011, it distributed $676,503 worth of food, or about 880,000 meals, for free to 84,699 people, a 21 percent increase from a year earlier.
Farmer has spent 10 years working for churches, nonprofits and being an advocate for the marginalized. Before returning to his hometown of Lawrence, Farmer was director of community awareness at Project Hope Food Bank in Arkansas.
Tagged: Just Food, hunger, Douglas County food pantry
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