Healthy Sprouts Fresh Food Bags for Reading Children
Healthy Sprouts is a Helping Harvest youth program that provides a bag of fresh foods to children in need in the City of Reading. It was first piloted in March 2010 under the name Produce 4 Kids, and more than 1 million pounds of nutritious fruits, vegetables and dairy items have been distributed since it began.
Helping Harvest describes Healthy Sprouts as one of three youth programs it runs to help fill the gap for children without access to adequate, healthy food. Approximately 1 in 5 children in the area do not have that access.
The page gives few details beyond that. It does not say how a child or family signs up, where or when the bags are handed out, whether a school or another agency has to make the referral, or what it costs.
To ask those questions, call Helping Harvest's general number at 610-926-5802. The organization's office hours are listed as Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., which are office hours for reaching staff and not distribution times for Healthy Sprouts. Helping Harvest is at 117 Morgan Drive, Reading, PA 19608, and can also be reached by email at marketing@helpingharvest.org.
Source: helpingharvest.org/programs-2/youth-programs, read November 2, 2026.
The details
In Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank’s words
Healthy Sprouts (formerly named Produce 4 Kids), originally piloted in March 2010, provides a bag of fresh foods to children in need in the City of Reading. More than 1 million pounds of nutritious fruits, vegetables and dairy items have been distributed since its inception.
Organization
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
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