IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Gray speckled background with a variety of vegetables including a red tomato, white eggplant, yellow summer squash, yellow tomato, collard green, green leaf of kale, jalapeno, cucumber, purple bell pepper, purple leaf of kale, and two potatoes.

OUR MISSION

We are working to increase food access for all Iowans, especially those who experience food insecurity, and believe in abundant, accessible, equitable food and land access.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Multiple purple curly kale plants in an inground garden bed covered with straw. Trees and blue sky are in the background.

ABOUT

The Community Food Security (CFS) VISTA Project in Iowa works towards the elimination of poverty through capacity building projects. These projects incorporate land access, transportation, and financial support as integral to abundant food access and each person's opportunity to choose the foods they eat.

Our VISTA members are motivated change-makers, passionate problem-solvers, and inspired community members who believe in a more equitable future Iowa in which all people are empowered and able to grow, source, and eat the foods they need and want.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A brick barn surrounded by cut grass. There are a few items of smaller farm equipment and an outdoor washing station around the barn. Trees are behind the barn, and there is a clear blue sky.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Multiple in-ground garden beds are visible. The closest (center) has two different types of green kale growing in separate rows, the one to the left is empty, the one to the right is covered in compost. Trees and Peoples Community Health Clinic are in the background. The sky is blue and cloudless.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Photo taken from above table. The table is covered in a purple and white checkered, vinyl tablecloth. Clear plastic bins are on the table. From left to right they hold: various types of kale, turnips with greens, swiss chard (top), green tomatoes (bottom), cucumbers (top left), jalapenos (top right), broccoli (middle), yellow summer squash (bottom), and collard greens. A gray counter and empty glass front refrigerators are also located around the table.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Green Iowa AmeriCorps service member in a baseball cap, blue long-sleeved shirt, tan cargo pants, and gray garden gloves bends over chicken wire surrounding an in-ground bed of various newly transplanted lettuce plants. The corner of a white house is on the right. Trees and a clear blue sky are in the background.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Two VISTA members (one in front wearing a purple long-sleeved shirt with a white mask, and one in foreground wearing a green shirt and blue mask) fill plastic grocery bags with produce, including green cabbage, in front of a glass-front fridge. Kitchen cabinets are in the background.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Six individuals stand with their backs to the camera, on the left side of the image, in a field with long dry grass. Various barns and construction equipment are in the background and a clear blue sky.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A person wearing red is crouched in a field of green sweet potato vines. They are in shade, and the sunlight is on trees in the background.

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: An individual wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt and an individual in a yellow long-sleeved shirt use hoes in a field of long in-ground raised beds. Long grasses, large farming equipment, and trees are in the background with clouds in the sky.

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