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From The Farm To The City: A Thanksgiving Bounty For The Needy (With Gallery)
November 22, 2016
About 200 students from schools in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties worked in fields near Jay Monday to harvest vegetables and bag sweet potatoes that will feed hundreds of needy families later this week for Thanksgiving.
The event at the University of Florida’s West Florida Research and Education Center was part of Farm-City Week, bringing the bounty of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences farm to the needy of the city.
The FFA students from Northview High School, Tate High School, Jay High School, along with other schools and boy scouts harvested collards and cabbages and sorted over a ton of donated sweet potatoes. The students also bagged freshly ground corn meal and grits.
Along the way, the students learned not only about teamwork, but also about the farming process at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences farm.
The greens, sweet potatoes and other food items will be delivered Tuesday with the help of more students to about 800 families that were pre-qualified based upon need at the Waterfront Rescue Mission in Pensacola and the Guy Thompson Community Center in Milton.
Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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