Each year, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau members celebrate Food Check-Out Week, which recognizes that growing and raising wholesome food is a farmer’s top priority.  Food Check-Out Week’s theme, “Stretching Your Grocery Dollars with Healthy, Nutritious Food,” focuses on helping consumers find solutions to eating healthy on a stretched budget.  Americans continue to enjoy the safest, most abundant and most affordable food supply in the world.

Under the direction of the Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee, Food Check-Out Week is celebrated by Farm Bureau members from across the state by collecting food, money and other needed items for Pennsylvania’s Ronald McDonald Houses or local food banks.  Every participating county Farm Bureau conducts its collection drive differently, but some examples of events include: collection boxes at area supermarkets and schools; coin collections at schools and churches; bake sales, and 4-H and FFA fundraisers.  Then, during Food Check-out Week, all of the collected items and cash are presented to the Ronald McDonald Houses in Philadelphia, Hershey, Danville, Scranton and Pittsburgh, or to a local food bank. 

For additional information on donating to this wonderful event, please contact your county’s Farm Bureau or call Brynn Kepler, Community Outreach Director, at 717-761-2740 or email.

Contact your county Farm Bureau to find out how to donate.