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About Us
Rolling Harvest Food Rescue collects donated produce from local farms and markets, and distributes immediately to the non-profit hunger-relief agencies helping the most needy families in the community.
The face of hunger in our area is changing. Many are underemployed, recently laid off, disabled or struggling with home foreclosures or even homelessness. Rolling Harvest Food Rescue is committed to helping our partner sites provide better and healthier food choices for them and their families.
Our sites include food pantries, domestic violence shelters, meals on wheels, senior centers, homeless shelters and at-risk low-income adults with health challenges. In addition to the daily pick-up and delivery schedules, we also hold weekly free "farmers' markets” at some of the sites to educate the recipients about nutrition, cooking and using the donated produce to their best benefit with no waste.
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Since 2009, we’ve been focused on partnering with local farmers, making it easy for them to share their freshest, healthy produce with the at-risk communities in which they live. In 2011, we delivered more than 23,000 pounds to thousands of local neighbors in need. In 2012, we distributed more than 48,000 pounds of nutrient-dense food, including an increase in our gleaning programs and special projects with local hunger-relief agencies. Now that the 2013 Harvest season has finished, with even more local farmers on board, we look back on a year of tremendous growth and significant increases that brought donations of 89,000 pounds of locally-grown fruits and vegetables, high-quality organic meats and a higher percentage of organic produce. This means that Rolling Harvest has rescued more than 210,000 pounds to date. That's more than three-quarters of a million additional servings of super-healthy food on the plates of the families we are helping!!
With your continued help and support, we look forward to providing even more and impacting more lives for 2014 and beyond.
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Our Founder
Founder Cathy Snyder was a native Philadelphian working in broadcast sales when she left to live overseas with her family, first in Tokyo, then on to Amsterdam, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur and Louisville until finally coming back home and settling a few years ago in the New Hope, PA area.
 While always active in local community service wherever she lived, Cathy found herself volunteering at Fisherman’s Mark Food Pantry helping out with the day-to-day operations and interacting with the local, food-insecure and needy population of this otherwise affluent and prosperous area. This began a personal mission to provide a more balanced, more nutritious choice of foods being distributed to the pantry visitors. Cathy had won a huge, red Ford Excursion SUV at Churchill Downs Racetrack in Kentucky, and started using that truck to go to farm markets and grocers, asking for donations of fresh produce, a commodity in short supply at the food pantry. Years later, she has now branched out to full-time procurement of the freshest, healthiest, locally-grown produce, and now has more than 19 farms who partner with her to keep a reliable source of fruits and vegetables for all pantry customers. This has enabled her and our corps of dedicated volunteers to reach out now to more than 25 social service (hunger-relief) sites — helping many thousands of struggling families each month. They have delivered more than 178,000 pounds of nutritious food since 2009 through the distribution network that helps more than 11,200 families each month. The goal is to have every food pantry they serve look like a farmers’ market.
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Mission Statement
Our goal is to increase access to and provide effective delivery and distribution of donated fresh produce and other healthy foods to sites that serve the at-risk, food-insecure population.
The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be:
- to increase access to locally-grown produce and other healthy foods for the at-risk, low-income population;
- to provide free-of-charge delivery and distribution of donated fresh produce directly from local farms and markets to participating sites who serve the at-risk, food-insecure population, including food pantries, soup kitchens, domestic violence shelters, homeless shelters and low-income senior housing;
- to provide a “farm market experience” on-site to clients of food pantries, shelters and senior housing for purposes of nutritional advice and education;
- to provide a free–of–charge quick-response gleaning team to participating farmers;
- to develop new sources of donated foods by reaching out to community business leaders, farmers and corporations;
- to engage in other activities related to increasing awareness and educating the public concerning hunger in our neighborhoods.
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