Baltimore-based Hungry Harvest merged with a North Carolina company that similarly aims to fight food waste by delivering ugly produce.

The merger convened Hungry Harvest and Durham-based Ungraded Produce, which was founded in 2016 to deliver in the Research Triangle area; Ungraded’s customers are now getting deliveries from Hungry Harvest. Ungraded Founder and President Courtney Bell is still engaged to push the work forward, and drivers from the company are joining Hungry Harvest’s team, as well, Hungry Harvest CEO Evan Lutz told Technical.ly.

Hungry Harvest was already delivering its boxes of produce that would be rejected by grocery stores or other markets due to look or bruising in the Research Triangle area of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. The two companies decided to team up.

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