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Rolling Harvest Food Rescue volunteers harvest and gather freshly pulled vegetables in green bins at a community garden on a sunny summer day.

SURPLUS BUCKS COUNTY CROPS FEED LOCAL FAMILIES AS EPA CHIEF VISITS SOLEBURY ORCHARDS

October 15, 2026 Jennifer Featured, In The Media

By Samuel Knickerbocker in bucksco.today

Published: 5:24 am EDT Oct 6, 2026 | Updated: 6:55 am EDT Oct 6, 2026

Image via Rolling Harvest Food Rescue, Facebook.
Caption: Rolling Harvest Food Rescue has dedicated itself to preserving produce that would have been discarded before reaching store shelves.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin visited Solebury Orchards on Oct. 2, a stop that highlighted Rolling Harvest Food Rescue, a nonprofit that connects Bucks County farmers with hunger-relief groups, reports Dave Lefever to Lancaster Farming.

“We’re a modern-day gleaning organization,” said founder Cathy Snyder.

Gleaning means gathering edible produce that would otherwise go unharvested.

When farmers grow more than they can sell, Rolling Harvest arranges pickups or sends volunteers into the fields, then delivers the crops to food pantries and other distribution programs.

According to its website, the group collects food from 52 farms and food producers and supports more than 80 hunger-relief sites.

Its service area includes Bucks and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania and Hunterdon and Mercer counties in New Jersey.

Snyder founded the nonprofit in 2012, and it reported redistributing about four million pounds of fresh food by its 10th anniversary in 2023.

Farmers gain a dependable destination for excess harvests.

Tinicum CSA farmer John Crooke donates already-picked produce and hosts gleaning events.

“I compost way less produce because of Rolling Harvest,” Crooke said.

Rolling Harvest also takes part in Fresh Connect, Bucks County‘s free farmers-market program, helping bring nutritious food to households facing food insecurity.

Zeldin’s visit was part of the EPA‘s Feed It Onward initiative, a program launched in 2025 that connects food donors with communities in need while reducing landfill waste.

The full article, including more on the farmers, volunteers, and partnerships behind the effort can be found at Lancaster Farming.

Group photo of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and community members at Solebury Orchards, standing beneath a Rolling Harvest Food Rescue tent and holding bags of food.

EPA BOSS FETES BUCKS COUNTY GLEANING OPERATION

October 15, 2026 Jennifer Featured, In The Media, Press Releases

By Dave Lefever, dlefever@lancasterfarming.com Oct 2, 2026 Updated Oct 6, 2026

Image Caption: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, center, joins farmers and nonprofit organization leaders at Solebury Orchards, New Hope, Pa., on Oct. 2, 2026 for a roundtable talk on ways to reduce food waste. Shown, from left, are John Crooke, local farmer; Cathy Snyder, Rolling Harvest Food Rescue; Paige Riegner, Congressman Ryan Mackenzie’s office; Kyle Melandor, Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick’s office; Zeldin; Erin Lukoss, Bucks County Opportunity Council; Jamie McKnight, Rolling Harvest; Marissa Christie, United Way of Bucks County; and Brian Smith, owner and manager of Solebury Orchards.

NEW HOPE, Pa. — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency visited a Bucks County orchard Oct. 2 to celebrate local efforts to donate farmers’ excess local produce.

“Too much food goes to waste across America,” said Lee Zeldin, the agency’s administrator, at Solebury Orchards.

The visit was one of Zeldin’s stops on a tour of food waste initiatives around the country as part of EPA’s Feed It Onward project.

Feed It Onward aims to connect food donors with communities in need while keeping food waste out of landfills.

Zeldin’s point of contact in setting up the roundtable was Rolling Harvest Food Rescue, a nonprofit serving Bucks County and surrounding areas, including part of New Jersey.

“We’re a modern-day gleaning organization,” said Cathy Snyder, who founded Rolling Harvest in 2012 and grew it to six full-time employees and about 400 volunteers.

The nonprofit’s staff members work closely with farmers, who can contact them any time they have extra produce.

Even if the crop still needs picking in the field, volunteers will do the harvesting and see that it gets to a food pantry or other means of distribution.

One of the local produce farmers benefiting from the group is John Crooke of Tinicum CSA.

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“I was delighted that there was already an organization that wanted us to call them when we had produce available,” said Crooke, who offers already-picked produce as well as hosting gleaning events.

“I compost way less produce because of Rolling Harvest,” he said.

Brian Smith, the owner of 90-acre Solebury Orchards, often has leftover produce for the nonprofit, although this year his apples and peaches suffered a nearly complete loss from a killing frost in April.

“There’s never a complete balance between what you grow and what you sell,” Smith said.

Dave Lefever
On his tour, Zeldin said he is seeing various innovative ways local entities are dealing with food waste. It is a growing field, with a number of new projects in motion.

“The best examples we’ve seen across the country are not old networks,” he said. “They are a few years old.”

Feed It Onward is cultivating partnerships across the country.

The purpose of the tour, he said, is “getting the story out of what’s working.”

Also participating in the roundtable were representatives of United Way of Bucks County, the Bucks County Opportunity Council, and staff of U.S. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Ryan Mackenzie, both Republicans.

Recipe of the Season

August 25, 2026 Kate Yarrow Featured, Nutrition Education

As the summer continues with long days and bright summer flavors, we’re celebrating the time with our Recipe of Season. Each season we highlight a recipe that showcases produce at its peak, using simple, accessible ingredients and minimal equipment. Our goal is always to show that nourishing, homemade food can be both easy and deeply satisfying.

July, August, and September bring an abundance of fruit, and nothing captures the season quite like blueberries. They’re sweet, vibrant, and perfect for baking. The featured recipe is a Blueberry Lemon Loaf, a tender, citrus-kissed bake dotted with fresh blueberries. It’s a cheerful, summery loaf that works beautifully for breakfast, snacks, or sharing with friends and neighbors!

Blueberries offer a wealth of nutrition, including vitamin C, vitamin K, manganese, and dietary fiber. Their deep color comes from antioxidants that support heart and brain health. Lemon adds brightness along with its own vitamin C and plant compounds that aid digestion and immune function. Together, these ingredients create a loaf that feels comforting yet nourishing, with flavors that shine because they’re in season.

Beyond their nutrition benefits, baked goods like this loaf are a wonderful way to enjoy summer produce in a cozy, approachable form. The combination of juicy berries and fresh lemon transforms everyday pantry staples into something lively and uplifting. Seasonal recipes remind us that eating well can be joyful, colorful, and rooted in the fresh foods grown in our local communities.

We look forward to sharing more recipes and nutrition information with you each month, and we hope this loaf brings a little sweetness to your summer days.

With warmth from our kitchen to yours,

The Rolling Harvest Nutrition Team

A bowl of fresh salad with asparagus, sliced radishes, leafy greens, and grains topped with seeds, served beside a small glass pitcher of dressing on a red table in warm sunlight.

Fresh From the Field, with Rolling Harvest

April 10, 2026 Jennifer Featured, Nutrition Education

Happy Spring from the Nutrition Team!

In the spirit of new beginnings and growth we are starting a new tradition: Recipe of the Month. Each month we will feature a new recipe highlighting paricular fruits and vegetables that are abundant in the season. We aim for the recipes to be simple, using easily accessible ingredients and minimal equipment. The goal is to demonstrate that it does not have to be complicated, time-consuming, or expensive to make foods that are both delicious and nutritious.

If you have been waiting patiently for the first fresh, local vegetables of Spring, then you are not alone. Here at Rolling Harvest, we are anxious to cook up the last of our storage potatoes, carrots, and turnips and begin feasting on Spring favorites. We have incorporated a few of these favorites in April’s Recipe of the Month, the Spring Greens and Grains Bowl. This versatile dish features leafy greens, asparagus, and radishes, all of which contribute their own dynamic taste and nutrition benefits. Combined with grains of your choice (a great use for leftovers!) and topped with optional nuts, seeds, or beans and a bright apple cider vinaigrette, the Spring Greens and Grains Bowl will delight your tongue and nourish your body.

Let’s dive into the nutritional nitty gritty of the recipe. First and foremost, this bowl is packed with fiber from the grains, vegetables, and any of the optional toppings. Fiber is crucial for gut health, helps control blood sugar levels, and can be protective against cardiovascular disease and even some cancers. Guidelines recommend women eat 28 grams of fiber every day and men 35 grams, but most Americans eat only half of the recommended amount. For perspective, eating one serving of this recipe without any of the optional toppings provides 8 grams of fiber. Adding ¼ cup of beans would give you another 4 grams of protein. With this one meal you could meet 1/3 to ½ of your daily fiber recommendations!

Beyond fiber, the Spring Greens and Grains bowl is loaded with vitamins, minerals, and healthful plant chemicals called phytochemicals. Salad greens are high in vitamins A, C, and K, as well as the mineral magnesium. Asparagus is a nutrition powerhouse! This flavorful stalk is not only loaded with vitamins A, C, K, and folate, but is also a plant source of iron. Similarly, radishes are rich in vitamin C, as well as the minerals calcium and potassium. The combination of nutrients in this recipe, from vitamins and minerals, to fiber, to plant-based protein will help you meet your nutritional needs for good health. The bonus is that it tastes fresh and zesty too, like Spring in a bowl!

We look forward to sharing more recipes and nutrition information with you every month, and we hope you enjoy a taste of fresh home cooking.

With warmth from our kitchen to yours,

The Rolling Harvest Nutrition Team

We’re Hiring! Two 2026 Internships: Nutrition & Culinary Education Outreach Intern and Summer Farm Intern

March 4, 2026 Jennifer Announcements, Featured

Nutrition and Culinary Education Outreach Intern

Join us this summer to help share the bounty from our local farms, get nutritious foods to our neighbors in need, and teach healthy eating for life! Our Nutrition Education Intern will assist Rolling Harvest’s Nutrition and Culinary Education Outreach Team with:

Fresh produce distribution, identification, preparation, and healthy cooking advice, working within the financial and housing constraints of food pantry recipients.
Cooking demos, and recipe and video creation, working directly with our dedicated Nutrition Education Directors and volunteers.
Other duties will include occasional weekly produce pickups from our partner farmers and food producers, and some gleaning (harvesting).
Additional nutrition and cooking outreach will be arranged at Fresh Connect Bucks free mobile farm markets, low-income senior housing locations, senior community centers, summer camps, health clinics, and area shelters, schedule TBD.

Flexibility is a key component of this internship as our societal needs keep changing. Must be able to lift 35 pounds.

This is a 12‑week college summer break internship (allowing for a one-week summer vacation) based on the candidate’s academic schedule and prior family vacation commitments. 20 hours per week, with all attempts made by Rolling Harvest to accommodate any other part-time job the candidate may be committed to for evenings and late afternoons. This is a paid internship with a $3,700 stipend, offered either as non‑taxable educational support (paid directly to the institution on behalf of the student) or as bi-weekly taxable installments.

The ideal candidate will bring enthusiasm, a commitment to social justice, compassion, and respect for the at-risk, food-insecure population we are helping. Must have own vehicle. Spanish speaking is a plus. Living within 20 minutes of the New-Hope/Lambertville area is a plus.

Please send cover letter and resume by March 31, 2026, to Vicki Sarnoff at vsarnoff@rollingharvest.org.

Summer Farm Intern

RHFR is offering a summer/seasonal farm internship for the 2026 season. We are sustainably growing over 20+ crops through our Grow To Give program at 4 different locations – primarily at our donation fields at Gravity Hill Farm in Titusville, NJ, as well as three additional plots in Pipersville, PA. All produce that we grow is donated and distributed to local hunger relief organizations. This is a great hands-on learning experience for those interested in sustainable agriculture, food access programs, and community outreach. Interns will work with the RHFR Operations Manager to plant, cultivate, and harvest a variety of vegetables as well as assist with general food distribution to hunger relief agencies.

The Ideal Candidate:

Is at least 18 years of age
Can follow instructions and communicate clearly with the team when questions or concerns arise
Works well alongside management as well as independently
Has reliable transportation and can commute to any of the farm locations we manage
Is able to lift up to 40 lbs repeatedly
Can work outdoors in all weather conditions
Bonus: Experience using a push mower and/or weed whacker

This is a 12‑week internship position, running June 1, 2026 through August 21, 2026 (allows for one week vacation). The position averages 20 hours per week. Specific days and times will be determined on a week-by-week basis and agreed upon in advance between the selected candidate and the RHFR Operations Manager. A Saturday shift may be required. This is a paid internship with a $3,500 stipend, offered either as non‑taxable educational support (paid directly to the institution on behalf of the student) or as bi-weekly taxable installments.

Interested candidates should send their cover letter and resume to: Jon Haddad, RHFR Operations Manager at jon@rollingharvest.org by March 23, 2026.

Save the Date! Rolling Harvest Inaugural Golf Outing & Fundraiser

March 3, 2026 Jennifer Announcements, Featured

Learn more about the impact and recognition of each sponsorship level. Contact Jamie McKnight for details.

$10,000 – Title Sponsor. . . Nourish a healthier, more equitable food system for all

$5,000 – Hunger Hero. . . Sustain fresh food rescue & distribution to reduce food insecurity

$2,500 – Nutrition Champion. . . Support healthy eating and dignity in food access

$1,000 – Community Connector. . . Strengthen relationships and logistics

$500 – Grow To Give Supporter. . . Help expand and maintain our farm fields

A Season of Impactful Change

January 21, 2026 Jennifer Announcements, Featured

We are thrilled to announce an important leadership transition at Rolling Harvest Food Rescue that reflects both continuity and growth for our organization. Please join us in welcoming Lynn Flannery as our new Executive Director! Lynn brings extensive experience in nonprofit leadership, fundraising, financial management, and program coordination, along with a passion for holistic health, local agriculture, sustainability, and equitable access to nutritious food. Lynn’s nonprofit experience includes work with NJ Farmers Against Hunger, Children’s Miracle Network of NJ/NY, Friends’ Health Connection, AmeriCorps, Intercollegiate Tennis Association and several scientific academic societies. Lynn enjoys building community partnerships to strengthen systems that support farmers, reduce food waste, and expand access to fresh, nourishing food for all. She looks forward to connecting with our amazing volunteers and partners in the coming months! You can reach her at lynn@rollingharvest.org.

Our outgoing Executive Director, Elyse Yerrapathruni, won’t be going far as she has graciously agreed to transition into the role of Board Chair where she will function in a strategic leadership role. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing everyone in the fields, in the kitchen, and on the road in 2026!

The Next Step Programs Goes to Rolling Harvest

December 9, 2025 Jennifer Featured

Rolling Harvest welcomes groups like The Next Step Programs (TNS) to join us on the farm to cook and to learn about nutrition and how food is grown and the nourishment that it provides to our bodies and communities. Click on the video below to learn more:

Established in 2015, The Next Step Programs (TNS) was founded to empower young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Bucks County. TNS delivers year‑round, person‑centered day and evening programs – from community outings to job‑skills workshops – building inclusion through local partnerships, family events, and advocacy and changing lives one connection at a time.

Rolling Harvest awarded 1st place for Healthy Food Access and Nutrition

February 1, 2024 Jennifer Announcements, Featured

Social Innovations Journal announce the WINNERS of the 2024 Greater Philadelphia Social Innovations Awards.

On Thursday, January 25, 2024, The Social Innovations Journal (SIJ) hosted the 2024 Greater Philadelphia Innovation Awards where Greater Philadelphia’s Social Sector Leaders presented the 2024 65 Finalists and Winners selected through an open nomination and voted upon by over 3500 residents of Greater Philadelphia.

Cathy Snyder and Rolling Harvest Food Rescue was awarded 1st place for Healthy Food Access and Nutrition. Innovative providing affordable, accessible, and healthy food.

The Social Innovations Journal (SIJ) Awards is dedicated to health and social innovators and entrepreneurs who work at the cross section between the private sector, government, and not-for-profits and aligns them toward collective health and social impact goals and public policy. Social Innovations Journal chronicles social innovations and enterprises addressing the world’s most challenging issues surrounding health and social policy, leadership, human capital, and systems. In collaboration wit government, philanthropy, not-for-profits and universities, the Journal bridges formal research and real-life experience. The Innovation Awards is a way to recognize agencies and leaders doing innovative work.

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Rolling Harvest Food Rescue founder retires; new executive director named

January 18, 2024 Jennifer Announcements, Featured, In The Media, Press Releases

Posted in the Bucks County Herald on Thursday, January 18, 2024

Rolling Harvest Food Rescue, a Bucks County nonprofit that connects local farmers with people in need, has announced personnel changes and additions.

Cathy Snyder, founder and executive director of the organization for the last 13 years, retired effective Jan. 1 of this year.

Snyder founded Rolling Harvest in 2010, after volunteering at a local food pantry and noticing the lack of fresh fruit and vegetables available. She approached local farmers and began “gleaning” surplus, unharvested produce from their fields to supply it to food pantries. Since inception, Rolling Harvest has provided over 4 million pounds of fresh local produce to over 80 food pantries, soup kitchens, and other human service organizations in Bucks, Hunterdon, Mercer, and Montgomery counties.

Of her time at Rolling Harvest, Snyder said, “My passion for the work we do has not diminished. And, aside from bringing my two beautiful, amazing children into this world, leading this organization has been the greatest honor of my life.” Snyder said she will continue to serve the organization as a senior advisor and honorary board member.

Snyder is being replaced by Elyse Yerrapathruni who previously worked for New Jersey Farmers Against Hunger. “Her years of relevant experience and passion leading that organization make her well qualified to lead Rolling Harvest,” says Snyder of her successor. “I’m confident that she will lead with a wonderful combination of heart, compassion, and thoughtful strategy.”

Other changes to the organization include the addition of new board and advisory board members. Stacy Denton, director of TRIO Upward Bound at Mercer County Community College has joined the Rolling Harvest Board of Directors. Tim Philpot, recently retired from United Way of Bucks County has joined the organization’s advisory board.

SURPLUS BUCKS COUNTY CROPS FEED LOCAL FAMILIES AS EPA CHIEF VISITS SOLEBURY ORCHARDS

EPA BOSS FETES BUCKS COUNTY GLEANING OPERATION

Recipe of the Season

Fresh From the Field, with Rolling Harvest

Happy Spring from the Nutrition Team!

We’re Hiring! Two 2026 Internships: Nutrition & Culinary Education Outreach Intern and Summer Farm Intern

Nutrition and Culinary Education Outreach Intern

Summer Farm Intern

Save the Date! Rolling Harvest Inaugural Golf Outing & Fundraiser

A Season of Impactful Change

The Next Step Programs Goes to Rolling Harvest

Rolling Harvest awarded 1st place for Healthy Food Access and Nutrition

Social Innovations Journal announce the WINNERS of the 2024 Greater Philadelphia Social Innovations Awards.

Rolling Harvest Food Rescue founder retires; new executive director named

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