World Food Day
Sat, Oct 17
|The Green Haven Project
The Green Haven Project grows and rescues food. We rescue flowers. On October 17, we're joining them in Overtown for World Food Day.
Time & Location
Oct 17, 2026, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
The Green Haven Project, 1160 NW 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33136, USA
About the event
World Food Day in Overtown
The Green Haven Project — Overtown, Miami
Every October 16, about 150 countries celebrate World Food Day. It marks the day the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in 1945, and this year's theme is "Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow."
The world grows enough food to feed everyone, but in 2025 around 645 million people faced hunger, and nearly one in three couldn't afford a healthy diet. Meanwhile, about a third of all food gets lost or wasted before anyone eats it. The same thing happens to flowers. Roughly a third of cut flowers get thrown out before they ever reach a customer.
That's why we keep showing up with the Green Haven Project. Every Sunday in Overtown, they give away free food: groceries rescued before they expire, plus produce from their own community gardens. They rescue food the way we rescue flowers, and we've…