“Grow a Row” for Food Banks this Year - theHumm May 2021
“Grow a Row” for Food Banks this Year - theHumm May 2021
The Great Veggie Grow-Off is an annual challenge between the nine communities of Lanark County and Smiths Falls to engage more citizens in growing healthy local food to donate to area Food Banks. The challenge starts each year on May 1st — “workers day” — to pay homage to the farmers in our community who grow food to feed us. Produce can be grown at home or in community garden beds, and local farmers and gardeners can “Grow a Row” as well! The Grow-Off ends with a final weigh-in on Thanksgiving Saturday (in alignment with United Nations’ World Food Day, October 16), when the winner is crowned. The community that donates the most gets bragging rights for the year, and everyone else is going to have to get growing if they want to beat last year’s winner — Drummond North Elmsley really ate everyone else’s lunch, as it were. However, the true winners of the challenge are the food banks of Lanark County.
If you picked up your Humm early this month, you can Zoom in on Saturday, May 1 at 7pm for a Great Veggie Grow-Off launch ceremony followed by a short Q&A with Ed Lawrence! If that date has already come and gone, there’s still lots you can do:
Never has there been a more important time to grow local food — Lanark County, let’s grow more this year than the 16, 541 lbs that were donated in 2020!
Grow, cook, and share: with your family, your friends, and with those less fortunate by donating to your local food bank. Root crops store longer and are easier for the food banks to handle, store and distribute.
Help tip the scales on local hunger by getting your hands dirty! Have at it!
The Great Veggie Grow-Off is a project of the Neighbourhood Tomato Community Farm. They are also presenting a Zoom workshop on “Organic Strategies for Home Gardeners”, with Scott Sigurdson of Indian Creek Orchard Farm, on May 12 at 7pm. To register for Zooms or for more information, contact Jay Young at 324–3372 or jyoung@carebridge.ca .
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