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Food Recovery
Project From its inception, The Food Recovery Project (FRP) was designed to increase the amount of food available to the entire food banking system through increased collaboration among food banks, transportation sources, volunteer labor, government agricultural entities and the food industry. Building those strong partnerships has allowed us to identify more donations and to pool our resources in order to capture and distribute more food for the hungry. Rotary First Harvest's traditional objective has been to collect food that had already been harvested or processed. The pilot phase of the FRP added a gleaning component to capture un-harvested food directly from a farmer's fields. Now that the pilot period has finished, RFH is making the FRP a part of our overall operations.  Rotary
First Harvest will continue to work with its partner organizations
to expand our access to food resources in major agricultural areas
in Washington State. Rotary First Harvest's field volunteer and office
staff are currently building a strategy for enlisting the help of
our current donors and Rotary contacts to identify potential new donors.
The pilot phase of the FRP proved that reaching out to more farmers
in this manner would also allow Rotary First Harvest to increase the
quantity and diversify the range of foods it brings to local food
banks. An example of this approach is Rotary First Harvest's current
work with Washington State apple growers, packers and Eastern Washington
banks to identify lots within apple orchards that will not be harvested
this season. Once those orchards have been identified, RFH will develop
a strategy for harvesting these apples and distributing them to our
partner hunger programs.
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P.O. Box 94117, Seattle, WA 98124 | Phone: 206-236-0408 | Fax: 206-236-0357 | Email: rotary@firstharvest.org