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
大兰辛食品银行（GLFB）创建于1981年，以满足大兰辛社区在20世纪80年代初重大经济衰退期间的需求。35年后的今天，大兰辛食品银行仍在努力解决这个不会消失的需求......为那些不太幸运的人提供食物的需求。2012年，大兰辛食品银行和中密歇根食品银行合并运营，创建了一个区域性食品银行，为英厄姆、伊顿、克林顿、希亚瓦西、格拉蒂奥特、克莱尔和伊莎贝拉县的需求服务。通过一个由救济站、相关机构和社区合作伙伴组成的网络，以及食品搬运工计划和花园项目，GLFB正在努力为所有人提供良好、健康和丰富的食物。在2015年，为密歇根州中部地区原本可能挨饿的人提供了超过6,000,000份膳食。我们服务的大多数人是儿童和有固定收入的老人。不幸的是，这种需求仍在继续。
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