Greater Lansing Food Bank’s Roots Farm to Hold Open House
What: Greater Lansing Food Bank (GLFB) is inviting the Lansing residents to visit its Roots Farm. The Roots Farm serves as a complement to the Food Bank’s 125 Community Gardens by encouraging successful gardeners to develop their own agricultural enterprises. Continuing GLFB’s mission of serving those in need, the Roots Farm focuses on limited-resource and historically under-served populations; primarily refugee, immigrant, low-income, minority, and women. Farmers are provided land and infrastructure, farm resources, trainings, and a marketing collective that includes business planning and development and sales opportunities.
Why: The open house offers the chance for Metro Lansing residents to learn about another way GLFB is helping provide fresh, healthy food to the area. Many Roots farmers donate a portion of their crops to those in-need. The remaining fruits and vegetables are made available for sale to the community at large.
Where: 1084 S. Hagadorn Rd., Mason, MI 48854
Who: Representatives of GLFB, Roots farmers, community gardeners
When: August 20 starting at noon until 4pm
Benki Kuu ya Chakula ya Lansing (GLFB) iliundwa mnamo 1981 ili kukidhi hitaji katika jamii kubwa ya Lansing ambayo ilikuwa muhimu wakati wa uchumi mkubwa wa miaka ya 1980. Sasa, miaka 35 baadaye, Benki Kuu ya Chakula ya Lansing bado inafanya kazi kushughulikia hitaji hili ambalo halitaondoka... Haja ya kulisha wale wasio na bahati. Katika 2012, Benki Kuu ya Chakula ya Lansing na Benki ya Chakula ya Mid-Michigan iliunganisha shughuli za kuunda benki moja ya chakula ya kikanda inayohudumia mahitaji ya kaunti za Ingham, Eaton, Clinton, Shiawassee, Gratiot, Clare na Isabella. Kupitia mtandao wa pantries, mashirika yanayohusiana, na washirika wa jamii, na Mpango wa Movers ya Chakula na Mradi wa Bustani, GLFB inafanya kazi ili kutoa upatikanaji wa chakula kizuri, chenye afya na chenye nguvu kwa wote. Katika 2015, zaidi ya milo 6,000,000 ilitolewa kwa watu ambao wanaweza kwenda njaa katika mkoa wa katikati ya Michigan. Wengi wa watu tunaowahudumia ni watoto na wazee wa kipato cha kudumu. Kwa bahati mbaya, mahitaji yanaendelea.
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