Hunger Free N.D.donates to charities

Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring announced Thursday that the volunteers in the Hunger Free ND Garden Project donated more than 222,800 pounds of fresh produce to food pantries, soup kitchens and other charitable community programs in 2012.

The project was started in 2010 through the local foods initiative of the North Dakota Department of Agriculture in partnership with the Great Plains Food Bank. The statewide project encourages home gardeners and commercial growers to plant extra produce each year for donation to charitable organizations across the state.

Other partners in the statewide project are Lutheran Social Services, the North Dakota State NDSU Extension Service, the Entrepreneurial Center for Horticulture at Dakota College at Bottineau, Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society, the North Dakota Farmers Market and Growers Association, Healthy North Dakota and Pride of Dakota.

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