Manna Food Bank Works with Farms to Provide Fresh and Local Food(VIDEO)

Everyone needs fresh fruit and vegetables in their diet, especially those that have fallen on hard times. Three cheers to Manna Food Bank, Whole Foods Market and Woody Woodroof of Red Wiggler Farm for providing fresh  produce to food bank clients. Read the Gazette article here.

In November 2009, MCA awarded Woody the Royce Hanson Award in honor of his work with Red Wiggler Community Farm. Click here to learn more.

Button Farm Living History Center is also growing food for Manna, and going a step further to handle the spoiled food that would otherwise go to waste. It works like this: Manna gets donations of food from farms, individuals and grocery stores, because of the sheer volume of food, some of it passes its prime and would have to be thrown out, eventually ending up in a landfill. Enter GrowingSOUL, a new nonprofit organization that takes all of Manna’s spoiled food back to Button Farm where it is composted into rich soil that can then be used to grow more food for Manna.  See the video below: