Nonprofit Ma’alot Farms sits tall on a hill in Los Gatos like the Garden of Eden, bearing hundreds of pounds of produce that will be donated to food banks and kitchens to help feed people facing food insecurity.

According to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, 1 in 6 people in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties face food insecurity. In light of the news that President Donald Trump is gutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Ma’alot Farms serves as an alternative to single-stream funding to feed people, said executive director Shoshana Ohriner. By cultivating crops through sustainable, regenerative agricultural processes, Ohriner’s farm aims to provide a diversity of foods to people in need all year round.

“Our main purpose here is to grow more food to feed more people, but to

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