Published in Grid Magazine on Jan 3, 2021.
Story by KIKI VOLKERT; Photography by MILTON LINDSAY
Our own Jamie McKnight – RHFR program director – in the driver’s seat, with founder and executive director, Cathy Snyder.
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“Sally Quigley is not a farmer. But today, at a food distribution event in the parking lot of CURE Insurance Arena in Trenton, she could fool anyone.
She looks down at a table heaping with butternut squash and recalls wistfully how she planted this squash and later got to harvest it. Today, she’s proud to hand it over to families that will eat it for dinner.
It is mid-October and Quigley is a regular volunteer with Rolling Harvest Food Rescue, a nonprofit organization that rescues produce that would otherwise go to waste and distributes it to food pantries and food-insecure people throughout Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, Hunterdon and Mercer counties.
Rolling Harvest’s food rescue operation is centered around gleaning—harvesting produce that farms aren’t able to sell, either because it’s surplus or because it doesn’t match customers’ aesthetic expectations.”
READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN GRID MAGAZINE, JANUARY 2021
