The Rotary Club of Hamburg will present a webinar on its Farm to Family Program titled Serendipity: Transforming Ugly Veggies into a Beautiful Free Food Distribution Program on Wednesday Jun-19-2024 at 10:00 AM for the Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group, ESRAG. CLICK HERE TO REGISTERThe club was invited to address an ESRAG audience by Amelie Catheline, Ph.D., past president of the Solana Beach Eco-Rotary Club located near San Diego. Earl Knauss, the Hamburg Rotarian who founded the Farm to Family Program was contacted by Dr. Catheline who is also co-chair of the Rotary District 5340 Environmental Sustainability Committee and Chair of the Food Waste Reduction Task Force for ESRAG-Climate following the December 2023 publication of a summarized article about Farm to Family written by Hamburg Rotarian Eileen Hotho, the club’s public image chair.
ESRAG presents weekly project seminars that can be viewed by Rotary Clubs around the world. The presentation is planned to include an overview of Farm to Family by Eileen Hotho followed by comments from Earl Knauss on founding and growing the program.
The Hamburg club was recently honored with the inclusion of the third part of the presentation to be led by District 7090 Gov. Scott Marcin and Hamburg Rotary President Tim Straube on the expansion of Farm to Family in New York State beyond Erie County.
- Eileen Hotho