Local farmers have donated fresh chicken to the Fare Share Food Bank.
The donation was made Friday (July 12) in Port Hope as part of the CFO Cares: Farmers to Food Banks Program, which donates about 1 million fresh chicken meals to food banks throughout the province each year, in partnership with Feed Ontario.
This program began in 2015 and has been supporting Ontarians in need every since by donating up to 300 locally raised chickens to food banks across the province.
Feed Ontario supports 500,000 adults, seniors, and children that visit food banks in Ontario each year.
Tim Klompmaker, the Chicken Farmers of Ontario’s board director for our region, District 9, says this program allows farmers to donate around 700 kilos of chickens.
Klompmaker adds that food banks constantly need protein.
Klompmaker says this year, nearly 500 Ontario family farms are participating in the program.
During Friday’s announcment, local farmers were joined by member of parliament for Northumberland-Peterborough South, Kim Rudd, our member of provincial parliament, David Piccini and Port Hope’s mayor Bob Sanderson.
