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How Our Garden Grows
Sept. 26 — One garden: 4,353 lbs! We’re still picking … 210 lbs. last Saturday. We managed to harvest a dozen watermelons…2 bags of broccolli..2 bags of okra…a few beans…4 flats of tomatoes…a dozen butternut squashes…and our last cauliflower. On Saturday, the crops looked good.Sunday was a...Read More
How Our Garden Grows
Sept. 12 — Shooting for the big 4 thou! No single-day records broken, but the garden still is putting out the produce! Last Saturday, we picked 589 lbs! Today, we added 154 lbs. and our new total is 3,797 lbs. For sure, we’ll make it to 4,000 lbs. on Saturday! That’s 2 tons!!!Now that the kids are in school, our midweek...Read More
How Our Garden Grows
Aug. 22 — A 15-pound watermelon! We harvested 145 pounds today, thanks to seven watermelons. We had 66 pounds on Monday. That brings da garden at St. Therese to 1,415 lbs delivered to our local food shelf.. Today, we had eight people in the garden ..2moms and 5kids…besides me. They wanted to know how to tell if a...Read More
How Our Garden Grows
Aug. 15 — Cauliflower bigger than your brain! Today’s harvest of 124 pounds yielded cauliflower with 9-10-inch, snowy-white heads.Do you know how to keep them white? Clothespins. Take 2 – 4 of the large, outside leaves, pull them up over the top of the cauliflower floret and hold them together with a...Read More
How Our Garden Grows
Aug. 9 — We’ve been watering the garden this week. We got an inch of rain last Monday, but it’s been dry since then and some of the plants are showing signs of stress, like the tomatoes. The kids from St. Therese who were on “Grow with KARE” stopped by to talk about how they saw themselves on TV (“And we saw you...Read More
How Our Garden Grows
(Editor's note: Farmer Dan and the St. Therese community garden were featured, along with Hunger-Free Minnesota, in "Grow with KARE" on Friday, July 27. All of the produce in the St. Therese garden is donated to food shelves. Dan is providing weekly updates about garden activity and donations.)Aug. 1 — There was a birthday...Read More
Helping Provide an Apple a Day
Channel One Food Bank and Food Shelf in Rochester know the power of fresh produce. Their Glean Team members collect leftover crops from farmers’ fields after they have been harvested for commercial use. Last year, the Glean Team brought in over 100,000 pounds of produce that the food bank and food shelf were then able to distribute to...Read More
Food Rescue Feeds Hungry People
The USDA’s Economic Research Service at one time estimated that 27 percent of the food produced in the United States never even makes it to our dinner tables, but instead is thrown away as waste. This is a powerful statistic and one that begs the question, “Are we doing enough to rescue usable food before it hits a landfill?...Read More
Gleaning for People in Need
At Channel One Food Bank and Food Shelf in Rochester, we have a special group of volunteers that we call the Glean Team. The Glean Team goes out and collects leftover crops from farmers’ fields after they have been harvested for commercial use. This fresh produce is then brought into our facility and distributed to hungry families in...Read More
Why don't kids who qualify eat breakfast at school?
Why don’t children who qualify eat breakfast in school? Seriously…why don’t they? In Minnesota, children who are at risk of being hungry typically don’t eat well when school is not in session. So why wouldn’t they take advantage of the breakfast programs offered in their school? It doesn’t make any sense unless...Read More
