Puritan Clinical and Hardwood Merchandise donate to Piscataquis Regional Foodstuff Middle

Hardwood Products Co., LP donated a examine in the amount of $20,000 to Piscataquis Regional Meals Heart (PRFC) of Dover-Foxcroft in a ceremony at Puritan’s new Pittsfield production facility on Dec.

Hardwood Products Co., LP donated a test in the total of $20,000 to Piscataquis Regional Food Middle (PRFC) of Dover-Foxcroft in a ceremony at Puritan’s new Pittsfield production facility on Dec. 21. The business is also matching up to $5,000 from staff for a doable full donation of $30,000.

“At this tough time when so numerous persons are feeling the strain of foodstuff insecurity, we believed that supporting the PRFC was vitally crucial,” according to Timothy Templet, government VP of profits for Puritan. “We come to feel strongly about supporting our group and we fully grasp that foods insecurity is at an all-time superior.”

The PRFC is a non-profit firm whose mission is to connect folks with resources of healthful food.

“We’re operating with group pantries, farms and the Excellent Shepherd Foods Bank to create a new model to supply comprehensive solutions to men and women who are foods insecure,” according to Erin Callaway, govt director of PRFC. “Every yr, we shift about fifty percent a million lbs of foodstuff to hundreds of individuals and family members. In response to COVID-19, PRFC done 4 “mega’ distributions in between Augusta and November of 1,000 emergency food bins plus countless numbers of kilos of domestically sourced make. Just about every mega distribution provided more than 50,000 lbs of foodstuff to as several as 2000 people today from 40 cities across Piscataquis and Penobscot counties.”

PRFC distributes foods through their FarmShare for HomeBound shipping system, the month to month commodity supplemental meals software operated by the Jap Spot Company on Ageing. They also carry out mobile distributions wherever they consider a loaded box truck out to communities to do a little push-via distribution in cities that do not have access to a community pantry, and they do their occasional ‘mega’ distributions where by they moved as considerably as 50,000 lbs of shelf-secure foods and fresh product or service to as numerous as 2000 people in 3 hrs. They also deliver local climate-controlled storage for regional farms, plus room for them to form and pack their develop if they do not have the capacity at their have site.

With more than 100 decades of record, Hardwood Merchandise and Puritan are in Guilford and Pittsfield. Puritan was not long ago named Inc. Magazine’s Company of the Yr for 2020 because of to its initiatives to struggle the COVID-19 pandemic.