Serving More Than Ever Before

In 2025, we continued to expand our reach thanks the tools provided to us with the Salisbury market and Seacoast Regional Food Hub.
The rising cost of living, cuts to public support and increased access to services brought more people to our door, and we proved once again that we can meet that need.
Our impact in 2025 included:

• A 9 percent rise in guest visits to our markets in Amesbury and Salisbury, as well as our integrated COA markets in Salisbury, Groveland and Merrimac. The rise included a crisis in late October over the freezing of SNAP funds that saw a nearly 50 percent spike in demand.
• Our SNAP Advocate helped more than 160 families max out their SNAP dollars, despite a more complicated application process that added 20 minutes to each visit. In total, we secured more than $90,000 to these families' food budgets, money that is then spent at local grocery markets and farmstands.
• More than 3 million pounds of food moved through the Seacoast Regional Food Hub to 14 frontline food providers from Newbury to Lawrence. As a result, many of these providers grew their reach - in North Andover, People's Food Pantry tripled its food supply and hired its first paid staff member.

This work only happens with the help of more than 600 active volunteers and hundreds of donors from across our region. Rising costs mean that this year we will need to continue to grow our impact, and your support is needed more than ever. Join our community!

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