Guidelines for eating well with diabetes

The American Diabetes Association’s Plate Method is a simple, intuitive way to structure meals that meet your nutritional needs and manage your blood sugar.


Independence Blue Cross Champions Share Food Program

The company’s longstanding relationship with Share Food Program (Share) demonstrates how partnerships between nonprofits and programs like the IBX Blue Crew, can achieve the greatest possible impact on the health of communities. 


Nice Roots Farm is hosting free cooking classes with Philly chefs this summer

Nice Roots Farm’s first edition of our Summer Chef Series kicks off on Thursday, June 27 from 5:30-7:30pm! All are welcome to join Café Tinto founder Gisselle Poveda and Chef Daniela Garcia for a Colombian food cooking demonstration, recipe tasting and conversation.


Guides to Halal and Kosher Foods

These downloadable guides are designed to help Share pantry partners (or anyone interested!) to understand Halal and Kosher foods and practices.


Share a Recipe: Vegetarian Split Pea Soup

Vegetarian split pea soup is a warming, delicious way to use the dried green and yellow split peas that are often available at Share pantries.


Share Partner Highlights Fall 2023

Share Food Program is proud to partner with—and distribute food to—nearly 400 pantries, nonprofits and community-based organizations throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. Read on to learn more about a few of our exceptional partners: Second Antioch Baptist, New Hope AME Zion, Kingdom Life Christian Center and Cecil & Grace Bean’s Soup Kitchen.


Nice Roots Farm-to-School Module 2: Growing from Seed to Harvest

The next installment of Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum is here! When students visit Nice Roots Farm to learn about growing food from seed to harvest, they start by discussing how growing their own food can be an act of food justice, and things to consider when sourcing food ethically and sustainably. Then, based on what is in season during their trip, students dive into learning more about a specific plant family. The module wraps up with a hands-on activity like seed starting or food tasting that supports students in deepening their relationship to their food, nutrition and the land.


Back to School with Nice Roots Farm: Food Justice, Land Sovereignty and Deconstructing the Food System

Nice Roots Farm at Share Food Program is in the thick of the growing—and learning!—season. Since spring 2023, 15 different groups of K-8 students from nearby schools have taken field trips to the farm in Allegheny West where they learn about urban growing, nutrition, and wellness, all through a food justice lens.

Read on to learn more about how food justice and land sovereignty movements shape our food system with this first lesson in Nice Roots’ Farm-to-School curriculum.


Share’s Home Delivery Program Grew 300% in 2022

Home delivery now brings free Senior Food Boxes directly to over 3,500 seniors in the Greater Philadelphia area. Growing the home delivery program has allowed Share to provide boxes to seniors who are not able to make it to Senior Food Box pickups at one of the 85+ partner sites, and otherwise would not be able to access the food they need.


Cultural Food Justice Work in Philadelphia and Beyond

A Black History Month highlight of organizations led by Black people that are doing transformative food justice and food sovereignty work on a local and national level: Sankofa Community Farm, Philly Forests, Soil Generation, John Boyd, Jr., and Land Based Jawns.