08/30/2022
What’s so special about this tomatillo? Not to be overly dramatic, but it’s the fulfillment of a vision we’ve had here at Rolling Harvest Food Rescue, ever since Gravity Hill Farm turned over their entire operation to grow great organic food for us to donate and distribute to neighbors in need. When deciding what to grow on their 3 1/2 acres, we started with feedback from our many recipients, based on more than seven years of sharing surplus produce from all area farms with them. We then branched out to many of the more culturally-diverse neighborhoods we expanded into as we grew, propelled even further as we ramped up exponentially to address the unmet need for food and nutrition during Covid, and finally settled on what produce people were telling us they were most hoping to get— culturally-relevant food that rarely ever made it into the charitable food supply in our agricultural region!
Collard greens, poblanos, tomatillas, jalapeños, along with thousands of pounds of more widely used nutritious and delicious produce like sweet potatoes, tomatoes, garlic, spinach, broccoli and so much more. This is and in action! It’s also an example of beautiful partnerships with other area growers who now also fully embrace this vision– our friends at None Such Farm and Peace Tree Farm providing us with some of the seedlings and transplants we needed, and the amazing farmers at Trauger's Farm Market, Tinicum CSA and especially Solly Brothers now setting aside a lot of their own land to grow incredible veggies to add to our charitable food system right here for our neighbors in need. 🌱🍅🫐🌶🍠🥕🍆🥬🥒🥦
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