Chester County Farms Share Produce For Chester County Food Bank

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Farmers in Chester County are increasingly loading up local tables with freshly grown food, whether those seated around can pay for it or not.

With the new addition of Sankanac Community Supported Agriculture, the Chester County Food Bank now has half a dozen farms feeding it 182,000 pounds of produce this year, according to a Philly.com feature.

“It’s all higher quality, not seconds,” Sankanac farmer Todd Newlin (top center) said in the report. “We are spreading food around to people who really need it.”

Despite being one of the richest counties in the nation, poverty in Chester County has still grown 64% since 2000 to 7.4 percent of the population.

“It’s ironic, in the midst of plenty, to have so many hungry people,” the food bank’s manager of ag programs Bill Shick was quoted as saying. “… My big-picture dream would be to get lots of Chester County produce into Philadelphia. (But) we can’t discount the need 10 minutes up the road in Phoenixville.”

Read more about both Sankanac CSA and the food bank on Philly.com here.

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Top image courtesy of phoenixvilledish.com

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