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Posted on Generocity.org; Mar. 28, 2019 By Elina Tonkova / CONTRIBUTOR

From listening to community to trauma-informed approaches, nonprofits in the suburbs diversify strategies in their fight against hunger.

As we’ve explored this month, poverty is unexpectedly present in Philly’s suburban counties — and so is food insecurity, an invisible symptom of poverty.

Posted on The Intelligencer; Mar 27, 2019; By Phil Gianficaro, Columnist

The Fresh Connect Bucks County free farmers’ market proves invaluable for food insufficient residents.

From The Intelligencer – By Staff report. Posted Oct 2, 2018

The contribution will help the Bucks County nonprofit generate an additional 30,000 pounds of locally grown fresh produce for hungry neighbors throughout the area.

Penn Community Bank of Buckingham has donated $15,000 to Rolling Harvest Food Rescue to help deliver an additional 30,000 pounds of fresh, healthy produce into the hands of food-insecure people across the area.

From WHYY.org
Air Date: August 23, 2018 10:00 am
Guests: Cathy Snyder, Gail Koskela, Jess Niederer

Today, three different perspectives on farming in the greater Philadelphia area with Jess Niederer, Cathy Snyder, and Gail Koskela.

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“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

Food, Social Justice and the Power of Collaboration, by Cathy Snyder, Founder and Executive Director, Rolling Harvest Food Rescue, appears in the April/May 2018 issue of Bucks County Women’s Journal. 

Some of us at Rolling Harvest Food Rescue are huge food and hunger policy wonks, some just want to share great food with people who can’t afford it or don’t have access to it, some want to focus on our nutrition and culinary education outreach, and some of us just want to focus on volunteering to get our hands in the beautiful soil while harvesting food for donation at our partner farms. But we all have come to realize that we are a small part of a much bigger movement to address the hunger, food inequality, and waste we see all around us, in the midst of so much abundance.

“Rolling Harvest Food Rescue Fighting Hunger In Our Area”
By Lisa DeAngelis – March 27, 2018

The face of hunger has changed in our area, according to Cathy Snyder, founder and Executive Director of Rolling Harvest Food Rescue.
Food-insecurity used to be more noticeable. Now it’s less obvious but just as desperate a situation.

View this story article at http://www.timespub.com/2018/03/27/rolling-harvest-food-rescue-fighting-hunger-area/