By Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Four weeks ago, a group of college students came together in an effort to do something about the supply-chain disconnect that has led to farmers throwing away fresh produce at a time when food banks are seeing huge spikes in demand.
As of this week, the effort that began with cold calls to farmers has facilitated the transport of 300,000 pounds of food to food banks in the Southwest and Northeast.
The FarmLink Project has paid nearly $5,000 in wages for farm workers and truck drivers to handle the donated food. But FarmLink’s first truck delivery of 10,800 eggs to Santa Monica’s Westside Food Bank was driven by Aidan Reilly, a junior at Brown University who founded FarmLink with his longtime friend
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