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Economic Development, Fresh Food, and Charity – A new program provide better nutrition and increases profits for farms.

Fresh Food Brainstorm Feeds The Hungry, Supports Local Farmers
A program for better nutrition and farm profits

Bronwyn Jones and her husband launched the Fresh Food Partnership when they discovered the severity of the hunger problem in their area and the ability of local farmers to help solve it.

TRAVERSE CITY — When surgery forced resort cook Jeanette Albert to stop working this past July, she found herself in a position she never imagined. With only her husband Gary’s income, the couple, who live about 20 miles west of here, near Rapid City, couldn’t afford the healthy, low-fat, low-sugar foods they need because of her diabetes and his gastric bypass surgery.

So Mrs. Albert reluctantly went to a food pantry “for the first time in my life” and found not only the canned foods typical of charity food drives but also the freshest whole foods imaginable — fruits and vegetables harvested that day by farmers right in her own back yard.

“Green beans, yellow beans, Bibb lettuce, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, peaches, pears, apples,” she recounted. “They even had corn on the cob once in a while!”

By Diane Conners
Great Lakes Bulletin News Service

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