Exciting news in the Farm to Food Bank world! Manna Food Center has received funding from the Healthcare Initiative Foundation to pilot Contract Growing with farmers in Montgomery County. This new relationship builds upon our current Farm to Food Bank program , which purchases local produce, meat and eggs from 35 farms in Montgomery County and donates the food to our Community FoodContinue Reading
Can potatoes and onions be stored together? Can you really freeze eggs for up to a year? These were just some of the many important and interesting questions discussed during this past April’s National Food Waste Prevention Week . Community members and organizations from around the world joined together April 10-16 to educate and inspire cultural change about food wasteContinue Reading
Founding CFR Director Cheryl Kollin has retired after leading Community Food Rescue for nine years. In response to the Montgomery County Council’s desire to create a countywide food recovery program, Cheryl, CEO of Full Plate Ventures LLC, and Manna Food Center joined forces in 2014 to create Community Food Rescue. Thanks to county and privateContinue Reading
Megan Joe, Director of Operations at So What Else , a non-profit service organization, had 15 pallets of potatoes to share quickly. As a Community Food Rescue (CFR) network member, she used a new feature in CFR’s ChowMatch app to offer the potatoes to other CFR network food assistance providers. Within a few hours, many bags of potatoes were claimedContinue Reading
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