For a lot of families, it can be a struggle to afford healthy foods. At the same time, many farmers in the Northeast grow an abundance of fresh crops during the growing season with no way to preserve the surplus. This results in unrealized profit potential for farmers, with some of their crops ending up as food waste instead of on people’s plates.
Harvesting Good, a subsidiary of the Good Shepherd Food Bank in Auburn, Maine, is on a mission to reduce that waste by preserving fresh produce from small farms using an innovative frozen food processing system and distributing it to food services and retailers, where families can access it at a reasonable price.
