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As Food Forward celebrates our twelfth anniversary this weekend, our Founder and CEO, Rick Nahmias, reflects on the journey…. At the start of this weekend I was a bit downbeat, accepting that our annual ritual would not take place: a…

  It’s hard to wrap our heads around how quickly our daily lives are changing. It’s even more difficult to know where we will be tomorrow, next week, or in a month. Like everyone, all of us at Food Forward…

See a snapshot of Food Forward’s major milestones, year by year, from 2009-2019! For a more detailed look at Food Forward’s history, check out the timeline we created for our tenth anniversary here. 1. 2019 The Produce Pit Stop, our…

It was a real gut-punch to hear of the passing of our friend Joseph Shuldiner last week. Joseph came into his own as a catalyst in LA’s alternative food scene around the same time Food Forward was just proving out…

Rick Nahmias shares his reflections on the road to the Produce Pit Stop, from receiving our first government grant to fund the project, to signing a lease after a long search for the right space, to the opening next week!…

The first pick happened 10 years ago on January 17, 2009 and was led by Food Forward Founder/Executive Director Rick Nahmias (far left)   Dear Fruit Family, Ten years is a heady milestone for any organization, especially one started with…

On February 23, 2018, Food Forward supporters, staff, and volunteers gathered at the Franklin Canyon Orange Grove in Beverly Hills to celebrate a milestone 50 million pounds of produce recovered and donated! Over the last 9 years, we’ve celebrated milestones such…