Rotary First Harvest

Posted by Jeffrey Brennan on Oct 06, 2016

David Bobanick

Joining us at today's club meeting was David Bobanick, Executive Director of Rotary First Harvest. David talked about how the concept of taking surplus crops from farmers started - rather than letting it go to waste, one Rotarian had the idea of getting those crops and putting it into the food bank system. Rotary First Harvest is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and a Rotary District 5030 program. It has many programs reaching out to large and small farmers throughout Washington. And, shortly, it will reach the 200 million pound mark - 200 million pounds of food that could have gone to waste but instead, was used in our region's food banks. It all started with one Rotarian with an idea.