OAK PARK ? Dodge, Case IH and New Holland Agriculture have donated $400,000 in equipment to Forgotten Harvest to expand its large-scale farming through Forgotten Harvest Farms, where healthy fruits and vegetables are harvested by volunteers and delivered fresh and free of charge to agencies fighting hunger in the region.
?In three years of harvesting fresh food from farms ourselves, we?ve gone from 100,000 pounds of food to 440,000 pounds to an estimated 850,000 pounds this year,? said Forgotten Harvest President & CEO Susan Goodell. ?One of our greatest barriers to further growth was the lack of equipment to support our staff and volunteers ? and today, Ram Truck, Case IH and New Holland have delivered what we need to keep growing our farming operations to feed hungry families in need.?
