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A series highlighting the people behind CFG’s success.

Growing More Than Food in Our Hometown

A partnership rooted in service, feeding thousands across Montgomery County

A sense of mutual respect and mindfulness permeates our culture-in fact, it’s the key to our success.
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If you spend any time at Clemens Food Group, you’ll hear people talk about community a lot. Not in a slogan kind of way—but in the “show up and help” kind of way.

Just across the street from our Hatfield, PA headquarters, that mindset is taking shape through our partnership with the Garden of Health. The Garden of Health is a nonprofit that grows, gathers, and distributes fresh food to a network of local hunger relief organizations, helping feed people across Montgomery County. 

What started as something simple—helping the Garden secure a cooler so they could store more food—has grown into something much bigger. Today, CFG supports the organization through weekly food donations and by contributing land that allowed the garden to expand.

And it’s making a real impact.

The Garden of Health supplies food to 70 hunger relief programs across Montgomery County, reaching about 100,000 residents each year. Last year, the organization distributed 2.1 million pounds of food—and with continued support, they’re on track to reach 3.2 million this year, according to founder and COO Carol Bauer.

A big part of that impact? Protein.

Each week, Clemens Food Group donates 2–4 pallets of fresh pork—something that’s often hard for food programs to source, but essential for families facing
food insecurity.

But what really brings this partnership to life isn’t just what we give. It’s how our people show up.


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Where Work Meets Purpose

Throughout the growing season, CFG team members head into the garden to help—planting, weeding, harvesting, building beds, even fixing fences. No experience needed. For many, it’s their first time doing anything like it.

“There’s something about getting your hands in the dirt that just grounds you,” Bauer says. “People need that connection back to the land.”

It’s also a different way to connect with each other.

Suren Pakhtigian, Manager of Product Data, has seen how quickly those connections form. Spend a few hours in the garden, and you’re working alongside people you might not normally meet—different teams, different roles, all doing the same work.

That’s CFG culture in action: show up, pitch in, and do it together.

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If you’re considering a career at Clemens Food Group, this is a small glimpse of what you’ll find here. People who care about the work—and about showing up for each other and the community around them.

CFG Team Members will have several opportunities to volunteer this summer, with organized days on June 11, July 16, August 13, and September 17. Or jump in anytime—the garden welcomes volunteers year-round.

Because when we come together to give, we’re not just growing food—we’re growing community.

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A sense of mutual respect and mindfulness permeates our culture-in fact, it’s the key to our success.