Sense of Community
Community Gardens
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Volunteers make sure unused crops get to those facing hunger
Volunteers in southwest Missouri go into farmers’ fields each growing season with a purpose. The produce they glean, instead of going to waste, is sent to area food pantries where it goes to local residents facing food insecurity.
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Sense of Community is a local public television program presented by OPT
Sense of Community
Community Gardens
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Volunteers in southwest Missouri go into farmers’ fields each growing season with a purpose. The produce they glean, instead of going to waste, is sent to area food pantries where it goes to local residents facing food insecurity.
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[INSPIRATIONAL MUSIC] Springfield Community Gardens-- our mission is healthy, local food for all.
We do a lot of mission with either helping, like, local farms, connecting them with buyers, helping people learn how to grow food, as well as-- where we're at right now is the food distribution, where we partner with Ozarks Food Harvest.
So pretty much anything to do with getting food into the hands of our community is where we're at.
The Weller produce distribution has been going on since 2014.
There isn't cold storage available once they pull it out of the grocery stores to hold it somewhere.
And so we figured out a way to network neighbors to meeting on a weekly basis so that the second that that food comes off at Ozarks Food Harvest on the truck, we're able to deliver it the same day here to neighbors through the distribution.
Volunteers, they come together to be able to disperse everything out.
Everything is gathered in crate-sized boxes.
And some of it's mixed-- oranges, lettuce.
And so we separate everything out before putting it into boxes for everyone.
There are 25 to 30 volunteers, depending on the day here.
We serve at least 115 families on a weekly basis.
One thing that I really like about this is that this food would have gone into a landfill.
And so not only are you getting apples and oranges and bananas, but you're able to divert things that were just going to be composted anyway.
And when we think about food waste or food insecurity, we actually have an abundance.
We have enough food.
There just isn't the mechanism to handing it to people.
And so we need more volunteers and people like that that are willing to be on the ground to disperse the food.
Because sometimes it's just the manpower behind to get it into hands of people.
Having a community that comes together is the highest of value.
And knowing that they're connecting with food I think is so very important, that we have-- and sometimes in our hearts, we feel like we've lost a lot of humanity.
And seeing a group of 30 neighbors come together just to disperse food for free to other humans, just because they deserve it because they're humans, is a really beautiful thing.
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