- Video shows Laborers of the Harvest’s Open Harvest in Arvin.
- The fresh-food program has been operating in this community since last fall and has obtained more than 700 memberships.
- For 30-dollars a month, members are able to access Open Harvest Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 to 8 pm and get up to three bags of groceries of their choice
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:
Open Harvest is a grocery-style food membership program that opened in Arvin last October. The program is run by Laborers of the Harvest (LOTH), a nonprofit whose mission is to feed the hungry and help the environment at the same time.
The fresh food facility operates under the new SB1383 law that makes it illegal for grocery stores to dispose of foods that have reached their sell-by date or best-used-by date.
“The food actually has to be donated,” said Executive Director of Laborers of the Harvest, Shari Rightmer. “And so that’s what we specialize in—it’s that fresh food. We clean probably about 20 different grocery stores which is really amazing.”