Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank returns with season 2 of Food Podcast

The second season of the Food Podcast by the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank launched this week.

The podcast will be a weekly installment on the TribLIVE Podcast Network and shared on TribLIVE.com.

The first episode of this season of the podcast, sponsored by Clearview Federal Credit Union, features host Brian Gulish speaking about how the covid-19 pandemic has impacted the community and the “new normal” that people are facing.

The Food Bank also launched the Grow Share Thrive this week. A new campaign to provide access to more and healthier food across the organization’s 11-county service area in southwestern Pennsylvania.

“All people deserve a healthy and hunger-free life,” said Lisa Scales, president and CEO of the Food Bank, in a statement. “1 in 9 of our neighbors, including more than 70,000 children in southwestern Pennsylvania struggle to have enough food to be healthy and thrive.”

The Food Bank said that an aim of the new project is to grow their network of partners to reach people who do not go to a traditional pantry. They will also open a Community Pantry at its headquarters in Duquesne to test new ideas, provide training for partners and connect those who need food to additional resources to help stabilize lives.

A virtual launch for the Grow Share Thrive project took place on Sept. 23, and was attended by Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf.

Listen to the podcast here and learn more about Grow Share Thrive here.