Grow With ForkLore

ForkLore started with a simple concern: we get food, but we’re not always able to keep it.

We started with food because of the founder’s own experience with food insecurity and a growing understanding of the distance between what people say is available and what people can actually use. Food can be purchased, donated, grown, recovered, or sent home from a pantry or program, but access doesn’t end when food reaches someone’s hands. Something can still have value, but having it and being able to use it, keep it, or transform it are two different things.

That led to a developing community preservation library, where people can access preservation equipment, practical knowledge, and support to help keep food useful longer.

As we began building the preservation library, the work got bigger.

Food isn’t the only thing people are trying to hold onto. There are skills people know, skills they want to learn, things they want to grow and make, stories worth documenting, methods worth trying, and knowledge that becomes more useful when people have the tools and room to put it into practice.

ForkLore is growing with that understanding. The work now extends beyond food preservation to create opportunities for people to learn, try, make, grow, preserve, document, share, use, and build. What that looks like can change: a workshop, a research project, a shared resource, an experiment, or something new that grows from what we learn creating room for knowledge to become practice and practice to open new possibilities.