How a Facebook post led to 3 million pounds of donated food
WOODINVILLE — Pickup trucks and SUVs lined the driveway to a Woodinville farm last week, their drivers ready and waiting. When a semi-truck loaded with 48,000 pounds of produce, dairy and meat products, and another with nearly 50,000 pounds of watermelon arrived, they sprung into action.
Two Bobcats zipped from the open semis to pickup trucks and open trunks. Two hours later, the almost 100,000 pounds of food were en route to households, neighborhood groups, churches and food banks.
The scene is now an almost-daily occurrence at Farmer Frog, a working farm and nonprofit that helps start school gardens while teaching kids the science of growing food.
But with summer camps cancelled and schools closed, most of their programs are on hold.
“This is what we do now,” Farmer Frog founder Zsofia Pasztor said Friday, gesturing to the white boxes full of watermelon from a farm in Othello.
In the past three months, Pasztor and a host of other volunteers have distributed millions of pounds of food, much of it salvaged from farmers who lost sales due to COVID-19.
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SO much food being destroyed now because a profit can't be made on it. People need it!
