Stories Related to Maine Food Bank Starts Frozen Broccoli Business To Keep Local Vegetables On Shelves Year Round

The state’s largest hunger relief organization has created a new company focused on freezing local produce from small and mid-sized farmers to ensure high-quality produce is available to Mainers year round, despite the short growing season. Harvesting Good, the new venture from the Good Shepherd Food Bank, has partnered with Maine blueberry harvesters to create an innovative food system that will give them welcomed work during the off-season and provide eaters with local produce options 12 months a year. The for-profit arm of the food bank plans to grow and freeze about 600,000 pounds of broccoli this year, with the first seeds going in the ground at Circle B farm in Caribou this week. Instead of building a frozen broccoli operation from the ground up – an “impossible” task, according to one processor – the food bank is attempting a new model where it breaks down the frozen food production chain link by link. The broccoli will be grown by Circle B.

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