REEDLEY, Calif. ( KSEE/KGPE ) – Fighting food insecurity in Fresno County and across the United States is the mission of Keystone Packing in Reedley.
Inside a small packing facility in Reedley, nearly 25,000,000 pounds of produce is saved each year that otherwise would have gone to waste.
“Unfortunately, Americans, we shop with our eyes, and everything’s got to look beautiful and be the right shade. And that’s all we’re dealing with here, it’s just dealing with something that’s got a small cosmetic blemish and does not affect the nutrition of that fruit,” said Randy Asadoor, CEO of Keystone Packing.
Keystone Packing is a nonprofit that started 15 years ago as a dream for Susan Asadoor who passed away in 2014.
Today her husband and children continue the work to provide fresh produce to a large number of food banks here in the valley and around the country.
Each week the Asadoors work with “Farm to Family” , a program that started in 2005 under the California Association of Food Banks.