Description

A produce donation from King Orchards turns $10 into 40 pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables for families across Northern Michigan. Add one to any order, or give on its own. Every dollar goes toward getting real, unprocessed food into the hands of neighbors who need it.

How Your Produce Donation Works

You add a $10 produce donation to your cart. We combine your gift with every other donation that comes through, then move fruit and produce directly from our farm and our distribution partners to the organizations doing the daily work of feeding people. Because the food moves farm-direct with no retail markup and no middle handling, your $10 stretches to roughly 40 pounds. That is a full box of apples, or a case of squash, or several bags of pears going to a family that would otherwise be choosing between fresh food and something else.

There is no separate account to set up and no minimum. One donation, one order, done.

Where Your Produce Donation Goes

We partner with two organizations we have worked alongside for years:

Food Rescue of Goodwill Northern Michigan recovers surplus food from farms, grocers, and distributors and redistributes it the same day to pantries, shelters, senior centers, and meal programs throughout the region.

The Manna Food Project serves Antrim, Charlevoix, and Emmet counties, supplying member pantries and running food programs for children and seniors.

Both operate close to home, which means the produce you help donate stays in the communities where our own families live and work.

Why Fresh Produce Matters More Than Shelf-Stable

Food pantries rarely struggle to find canned goods. What they run short on is fresh: fruit and vegetables that spoil quickly, cost more per calorie, and are the first thing to disappear from a tight grocery budget. A produce donation fills exactly that gap. Kids get apples in their lunches. Seniors get squash they can actually cook. Families get the food that makes the rest of the pantry box into a meal.

What Ends Up in the Box

The mix shifts with the growing season in Northern Michigan. Depending on when you give, your produce donation may become apples and pears through the fall, and winter squash and storage apples into the colder months. We give what we grow, at peak harvest times.

Give Once or Give Every Season

Some customers add a produce donation to every order they place. Others give once a year around the holidays, or in late summer when the harvest is at its heaviest and the need at food pantries climbs right along with school starting.

About King Orchards

We have farmed in Antrim County for four generations, growing tart cherries, sweet cherries, apples, and stone fruit on the hills above Lake Michigan. This is where our kids grew up and where our crew lives. Feeding the people around us is not a marketing program, it is the point of growing food in the first place.