GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Children’ Meals Basket is celebrating the tip of the harvest season with its first ever Fall Competition on Sunday, Oct. 10.
The group is invited to get pleasure from fall treats, garden video games, actions and study volunteer alternatives on the Children’ Meals Basket Farm, 1300 Plymouth Ave. NE, from 2-5 p.m.
Festivalgoers also can style uncooked honey from the farm’s bee colony.
Actions will spotlight the non-profit group’s instructional applications that target consuming and rising wholesome produce.
“At Children’ Meals Basket, our farming applications present tens of 1000’s of servings of recent vegetables and fruit to under-resourced households,” President and founding CEO of Children’ Meals Basket Bridget Clark Whitney stated in a press release.
Associated: How becoming members of the Kids’ Food Basket Farm helps feed needy children
Children’ Meals Basket, a nonprofit group, gives night meals known as sack suppers to eight,800 college students in Kent, Ottawa, Muskegon and Allegan counties each day at 52 colleges, based on its website.
The group harvested over 100,000 servings of recent vegetables and fruit from its farm this yr.
Objects like cucumbers, inexperienced peppers and snap peas have been added to sack suppers. Further produce was distributed to social organizations the Group Meals Membership, the St. Alphonsus meals pantry and Noor’s Heaven.
“We develop partnerships and collaborations that cut back meals insecurity and improve meals fairness in West Michigan,” stated Whitney. “We’re grateful that this occasion brings the chance to share this crucial work with our group.”
Extra data could be discovered at kidsfoodbasket.org.
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