![]() ![]() With coverage from coast-to-coast, Harvest Sherwood Food Distributors can now better serve protein and perishable food producers, and independent retail and foodservice customers. In March 2017, Harvest Food Distributors merged with Sherwood Food Distributors, a family-run business based in Detroit, to form an unprecedented national partnership. Coupled with high fill rates and on time delivery, access to a wide selection of brands and products was right on target and immediately embraced by customers in Phoenix and San Diego. Simply put, the strategy focus was to provide a wide selection of protein items that included solutions to fit any demographic with the brands and products that they demanded. While independent food distribution was not new, Harvest Founders launched a strategy that was developed to provide a better way for customers to acquire product. The strategy was simple: provide independent food companies that did not have the scale to be self-distributors, the opportunity for access to national and regional brands/products that included the all-important protein categories of beef, pork, poultry and seafood. Currently, Second Harvest and community partners stage monthly Mobile Pantry distributions at Oakwood Park (Lorain), Black River Landing (Lorain), Willard City Park, and BGSU Firelands (Huron) and seasonal Mobile Pantry distributions at the campus of Lorain County Community College (Elyria).The meat and food business has been in the family bloodline since they were kids when father, Frank Leavy opened Leavy’s Meat Market with his brothers Jim and Tom in Marshalltown, Iowa.įounded in 1989 as Harvest Meat Company with offices and distribution centers in Phoenix and San Diego, the vision of Frank Leavy along with sons Jay, Kevin and Dennis was born. Mobile Food Pantry boxes are packed by volunteers at Second Harvest and driven over on the day of distribution with available fresh produce, protein, bread, and more. During the years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ohio National Guard assisted in scaling up our Mobile Pantry Program to meet the sudden increase in need, eventually helping in over 500 Mobile Pantry distributions. Throughout the years, Second Harvest has come and gone from sites throughout our service region, including the Lorain VFW #45 and the Lorain Public Library, Main Branch. Our first partnership with El Centro de Servicios Sociales was solidified in March 2012 and is still going strong today. We identified partners in targeted regions willing to work with us to plan and execute mobile food pantries-thus began the Second Harvest Mobile Pantry program. ![]() These closures prompted Second Harvest to conduct a gap analysis as part of an effort to find potential distribution sites in high-poverty areas lacking existing food pantries. In 2012, several food pantries closed down in the city of Lorain. Working together with a vast network to acquire, gather, and distribute nutritious food in our four county service region. Second Harvest is committed to fighting hunger. ![]()
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