“With even more local farmers and food producers on board for our 2018 harvest season from May through December, we are ensuring another year of tremendous growth and significant increases in both the number of people we are helping and the amount of produce we are sharing. We will soon reach our TWO MILLION-pound milestone of locally-grown fruits and vegetables, high-quality organic meats and a higher percentage of organic produce distributed to date. That’s more than eight million additional servings of super-healthy food on the plates of thousands of hungry families!
We continue to increase our impact and effectiveness through collaboration, projects and partnerships with other local social service agencies and food rescue organizations.
Turning food pantries into farmers markets remains the goal. With your continued help and support, we look forward to providing even more and impacting more lives for 2018 and beyond.” Cathy Snyder, Executive Director, Rolling Harvest Food Rescue
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The following excerpt first appeared on June 24, 2018 in the Bucks County Intelligencer and the Courier Times.
By Freda Savana
Using a network of devoted volunteers and generous farmers, Rolling Harvest Food Rescue brings fresh fruits and vegetables to food pantries, senior and community centers and mobile farmer’s markets across the region. “Turning food pantries into farmer’s markets, remains our main goal,” says founder, Cathy Snyder.
Built on the simple but powerful mission to provide fresh produce to all, regardless of income, Rolling Harvest Food Rescue is transforming food pantries and free farmer’s market across the region.
It’s recipe for success —a visionary founder, a dedicated band of volunteers and a group of generous farmers — has yielded more than 1.7 million pounds of locally grown produce to Bucks County and beyond for nearly a decade, becoming a critical partner is addressing the needs of a staggering number of hungry and food insecure families.
At the heart of Rolling Harvest is Cathy Snyder, a 61-year-old woman of exceptional energy, skill and devotion. Her cause — easing the suffering of those without enough to eat. Snyder, who now calls Lumberville home, founded the hunger relief organization in 2010, after being struck by the “enormous disparity” between what she was feeding her family and what was available at the food pantry where she was volunteering.
The first thing you notice about the former TV sales executive is her nearly constant smile and tireless way of talking. The second is her phone, which shows a steady stream of text messages — mostly volunteers responding to a last-minute call from a farmer saying she’s got spinach, a lot of spinach, free for the taking.
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