In 2018, our founder, Joshua Harris, moved to Little Rock to work alongside Vine and Village and the Arkansas Food Bank to provide food to those in need. Josh took over a program created by the City of LR and Vine and Village called Fresh2You that used a city bus converted to deliver food to food desserts. The program was meant to address the lack of food access felt in the Little Rock urban areas where families lived without grocery stores or the economic ability to provide enough food for their family. But even before this food access work was a part of our founders’ experience.

Before Josh ever moved to Little Rock he had led international trips across Central America and Africa often providing food and meals for impoverished villages and towns. Then in 2014 serious health issues resulted in Josh being too sick to get out of bed for 6 weeks. It was during the years that followed that he learned the power of food for health and wellness and a passion to help everyone experience it. In 2020, during the pandemic, Well Fed was launched to combine all the experience and passion of our founder to fight not only food insecurity but with a vision to address nutrition insecurity too.

During the early years in Little Rock Josh noticed a large gap in addressing diet-related illnesses with food. There were plenty of pantries and food banks to supply food to put in the belly but not a strategy for the right kind of food to improve health outcomes. Communities needed more than something to eat, they needed diet intervention and education to get healthy again, reverse disease, and leave a healthy legacy for their kids and grandkids. Well Fed was launched to begin the journey towards changing the health statistics in Arkansas: to lower diabetes and obesity and to decrease the number of deaths related to cardiovascular issues. Arkansas ranks at the bottom of the nation in these issues and Well Fed is passionate about working with like minded partners to change the stats and work with families to live a new healthy life!