Kentucky Harvest

Welcome to Kentucky Harvest!

Hunger and waste, both mingling together in the same city. Right beneath the world-renowned Twin Spires, it stains our image, and challenges our equally renowned southern hospitality. This must be the result of some miscommunication. At some point logic has gotten crossed up and lost its way. Every evening here in Louisville, thousands of dumpster lids are lifted in erring waste. Where’s the communication?

See Jack. See Jack prepare food for 400 people in a local restaurant kitchen. See Jack dismayed when only 315 arrive and eat. See Jack clean up for the evening, and empty tray after tray into a 55 gallon Rubber Maid. If we could just get in touch with Jack ….

Founded in 1987, Kentucky Harvest was created, then, out of utter logic. Hunger doesn’t make sense. Get the food from where it is to where it’s needed. That starts with communication, and a system.

A PROGRESSIVE, THINKING SYSTEM
Kentucky Harvest can be thought of as a system, born of logic and altruism, to feed the hungry. A machine with a heart.

Stan Curtis, the Founder of Kentucky Harvest and USA Harvest, will be glad to tell you “It‘s all about the food”, in that raspy, energetic tone he has –and that is perfectly put, but collecting and distributing this much food, measured in tons, is all about the system.

It takes a staggering amount of volunteer effort, communication, and generosity to make all of this magic happen. Every person involved with Kentucky Harvest has, at one point or another, simply called 894-9999 or 589-FOOD and asked how they could help. This, again, is a simple action with extraordinary results. Time or talent, the dedication of individuals together has powerful results.

So where do we start? Here, at home. At Louisville Fire football games. At 1839 Brownsboro Rd in Clifton, where Susie (email link kyharvest@win.net) is busy but eager to speak with you. In the kitchen of every restaurant from the Spaghetti Factory on Main Street to Piccadilly on Hurstbourne Lane. It begins and ends with food, and in the middle we have some very exciting things happening. Check our calendar of events (link); visit with our sponsors (link); contact someone who helps and say “thanks” (link), or someone who doesn ’t and ask if they might.

Louisville is energetic, cultured and useable. With the St. James Art Fair and Speed Art Museum; the Riverbats and U of L Cardinals; concerts on the river and booming fireworks every May, this city is community and culture squared. So where, again, does hunger fit in?

This website is your resource. A source of information or inspiration, a bulletin board that we can share in this community with the common purpose of feeding the hungry. Bringing USA Harvest (link) home, Kentucky Harvest.

Stan Curtis,
Founder, Kentucky Harvest and U.S.A. Harvest
1.800.USA.4FOOD