Destin Harvest (doing business as Emerald Coast Food Rescue starting 2025) launched its operation inside the office of a t-shirt shop at Harbor Dock's Seafood Restaurant in Destin, Florida in 2007. Food rescue commenced with a refrigerated van and one driver who secured no more than a few hundred pounds of food daily from local restaurants. The foods were then delivered the same day between eight food programs within Destin and Fort Walton Beach.

In 2010, Destin Harvest partnered with Bay Area Food Bank (now Feeding the Gulf Coast) to service daily food donation pick-ups from multiple grocery stores in Destin and Sandestin, including Wal-Mart, Fresh Market, Winn Dixie, and Publix locations. The volume of food grew substantially, and Destin Harvest required a larger truck and more partner programs in Okaloosa to connect the foods to. Destin Harvest's founder, and private benefactor, wired funds for Destin Harvest to purchase a Freightliner from a dealership in Tampa to accommodate the larger volumes of food. Destin Harvest expanded food deliveries to programs in Crestview and Walton County.

Since 2013, Destin Harvest has been awarded twice by Impact 100 of Northwest Florida and has received substantial contributions from numerous other prominent foundations and benefactors. Emerald Coast Food Rescue currently has three 20’ refrigerated food rescue trucks that pick up food daily from 29 retail grocery store in Destin, Fort Walton, Niceville, Santa Rosa Beach, Freeport and Defuniak. Our work has mobilized and connected over 18 million meals, or lbs. of free food to programs locally since inception in 2007.

SILENT AUCTION BEGINS ON 11/03 AT 12 AM AND ENDS 12/12 AT 9 PM.

2025 Fall Harvest Silent Auction

Raising Support for Local Food Rescue and Hunger Relief