SAN ANTONIO – At the Mission San Juan Farm, hundreds of kilos of meals are grown every year and donated to households in our group.
For Hunger Action Month, 12 explored volunteer opportunities at the San Antonio Food Bank, together with serving to develop vegetation.
“Mission San Juan is one of the initial Spanish colonies. It’s a national park site. It’s recognized as a world heritage site. This specific property that we are cultivating on has had crops growing on it for almost 300 years. We are use the acequia that pulls water off the San Antonio river and as a result we think this is a cool way to connect agriculture in the past which is why San Antonio is where it is to the present day and hopefully the future,” Mitch Hagney, director of meals sustainability at the San Antonio Food Bank stated.
The farm is ready 50 acres and final 12 months they produced about 300,000 kilos of meals at the farm.
“We are standing in a beautiful native squash patch. We also have five acres of peaches, and then we have turnips, beets, radishes, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, all that we will be planting for the fall to hopefully get out to families who need it for the rest of the year,” Hagney stated.
There are some ways you’ll be able to assist at the San Antonio Food Bank, together with volunteering at this particular position.
“You are going to be doing things like weeding, mulching, but critically for us harvesting,” Hagney stated.
During the autumn, volunteer days are each and every different weekend.
“We have tractors, we have other equipment that we are able to plant, but we need people power to come and actually to be able pull things off oft some of the vines and put them in our crates to go out to the communities who need it,” Hagney stated.
Hagney hopes to develop extra vegetation and get the group concerned.
“For us, Hnger Action Month which is all throughout September, is a critical time for the community to really pitch in and get involved,” Hagney stated.
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