Hidden Harvest Food Bank

Shortly before surgery I was privileged to shoot at the monthly food bank provided by Hidden Harvest in Coachella, CA.

I will write more about Hidden Harvest and about my interest in knowing more about poverty in our country - especially about children and poverty.

For now, here is a grandmother and small child waiting for the boy's mother as she collected the vegetables, fruit and dry goods that would help her family survive until the next food bank a month later.  

The food bank, entirely manned by volunteers, is held once a month for three days.  The first day that I was in attendance 400 people came for food.

This valley has been exceptionally hard hit by the mortgage disaster and bust in construction that gave so many people full time jobs.