WHYY’s Mary Cummings-Jordan interviews Jess Niederer, Cathy Snyder, and Gail Koskela.
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.
“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/
From Bucks County Women’s Journal, June/July 2017: Making a Difference
Rolling Harvest Food Rescue is a modern-day gleaning organization, referring to the ancient biblical practice of farmers leaving crops in their fields for the hungry to collect for nourishment.
Link to article by Christine Wolkin on May 3, 2017, Times Publishing
Since 2010, Rolling Harvest Food Rescue has been delivering donations of fresh products directly from local partnering farms to food pantries and community meal programs serving at-risk, food insecure families in Bucks County, as well as families over the river in Hunderdon and Mercer Counties.
From Comcast Newsmakers: Recorded March 2, 2017
Comcast Newsmakers is a short-form news platform where leaders and innovators exchange ideas and tackle the issues facing communities across America.
Jill Horner speaks with Cathy Snyder, Founder and Executive Director of Rolling Harvest Food Rescue, about using a collective impact model to fight hunger and food insecurity.
Link to article by Kristen Kwiatkowski on Feb 15th, The Town Dish
It all began with a simple concept: ensuring that individuals facing food insecurity get the healthy produce they need for a nutritious diet and that local produce would not go to waste. This goal prompted Rolling Harvest Food Rescue’s founder and executive director, Cathy Snyder, to initiate the innovative organization back in 2010.
Link to Article in Bucks County Courier Times, November 21, 2016. By Nicole Loughan correspondent
When one of Bucks County’s largest farms, Shady Brook, joined local food sharing organization Rolling Harvest’s team of growers, they pushed donations over the top, literally.
The Bucks County Courier Times and The Intelligencer selected Rolling Harvest Food Rescue as one of this year’s 10 Good-Doers finalists. The 10 nonprofit organizations do work to support those in need and to strengthen the community for all of us. The winning organizations will be given the opportunity to work with the newspapers’ team of videographers and video storytellers, and produce a three-minute Public Service Announcement (PSA). In November, the newspapers invited nominations of nonprofit organizations for the 2016 Good-Doers Awards and received more than 100 nominations for 44 individual organizations.
