In the past two years, the number of people coming to Helpline House food bank doubled. This spring, Helpline lost 40 percent of their funding to buy meat, dairy, and fruit and all of their funding to buy from local farms.

Major cuts to federal funding are affecting local farms, the Helpline House food bank, and more than 400 local families. But Friends of the Farms has just launched an effort called Shared Harvest to counteract the effect of the cuts.