A pallet holding 60 cases of pork was dropped off at the Gallatin Valley Food Bank in Bozeman Tuesday — part of a larger effort to get more Montana meat to those in need.
The pork came courtesy of the Producer Partnership, a nonprofit organization started by Matt Pierson in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was setting in and wreaking havoc on the food supply chain and increasing the need at Montana food banks. Pierson built a federally inspected processing facility off of Frontage Road in Livingston where they can process 15 cows a day.
Jon Horn, the food bank’s operations manager, said they rely heavily on grocery store donations for their meat supply. The food bank distributes about 70 boxes of food a day, Horn said, and ideally people can either take three, six, or nine packages of meat depending on their household size. Since their donations fluctuate, Horn said they sometimes don’t have enough meat. For a period this summer, the food bank was low on donations and families could only take one package of meat home no matter their household size.
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