Pleasant Hill nonprofit partners up to keep hungry communities fed during pandemic

Amid the chaos of a disrupted food supply chain and growing numbers of people in need, a creative partnership between a produce distributor and a nonprofit food rescue program is getting fresh food to hungry families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The partnership is a direct outgrowth of the US Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box emergency project, begun in April as part of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. The program, which has already distributed 5 million food boxes nationwide, calls for farm product distributors in the USDA program to name a nonprofit to receive food boxes.