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Cleveland County had a little project this year. Potatoes, both white & sweet, were grown on donated land. The harvest is being donated to feed people. It's a pretty good idea, and I thought that I'd post a couple of links. There are more articles. Just search with the word potato & you can get the rest of the articles in the recurring series (& some potato recipes too)
Feeding the Hungry: Seed, supplies, hands needed for potato project | span, class, seed - Local News - The Star Online : The Newspaper of Cleveland County (http://www.shelbystar.com/news/span-44203-class-seed.html - broken link)
This is the most recent.
Students, youth group harvest potatoes for hungry | students, group, youth - Local News - The Star Online : The Newspaper of Cleveland County (http://www.shelbystar.com/news/students-48015-group-youth.html - broken link)
This week, the Kings Mountain Herald ran an article on the project & the Gardner Webb students helped to harvest 5000 lbs of sweet potatoes from a donated field, last weekend. There are still a couple of fields to be harvested.
It's a good idea & a simple concept. I thought that I'd post this in case someone in another county is involved with a group & could start this there.
Cleveland County had a little project this year. Potatoes, both white & sweet, were grown on donated land. The harvest is being donated to feed people. It's a pretty good idea, and I thought that I'd post a couple of links. There are more articles. Just search with the word potato & you can get the rest of the articles in the recurring series (& some potato recipes too)
Feeding the Hungry: Seed, supplies, hands needed for potato project | span, class, seed - Local News - The Star Online : The Newspaper of Cleveland County (http://www.shelbystar.com/news/span-44203-class-seed.html - broken link)
This is the most recent.
Students, youth group harvest potatoes for hungry | students, group, youth - Local News - The Star Online : The Newspaper of Cleveland County (http://www.shelbystar.com/news/students-48015-group-youth.html - broken link)
This week, the Kings Mountain Herald ran an article on the project & the Gardner Webb students helped to harvest 5000 lbs of sweet potatoes from a donated field, last weekend. There are still a couple of fields to be harvested.
It's a good idea & a simple concept. I thought that I'd post this in case someone in another county is involved with a group & could start this there.
What an awesome idea!
I know of a church that does this, on a much smaller scale of course. Thanks for sharing the links southbound
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What an awesome idea!
I know of a church that does this, on a much smaller scale of course. Thanks for sharing the links southbound
You're welcome, loves. I saw an article in the Kings Mountain Herald last spring looking for a farmer who could donate some land in Kings Mountain. It seemed like a good idea then, but thought that I'd let it play out, to see how it actually worked in real life.
This week's Kings Mountain Herald ran a full page on the harvest of the donated field in Kings Mountain. 5,000 pounds of sweet potatoes is a lot & will certainly help out. I checked the Shelby Star & found links to several articles, so now seemed like the time to post. It really worked out well, & with 2 more fields of sweet potatoes to be harvested, this will make a difference.
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Cleveland County is at it again. This year even City of Kings Mountain donated use of some land. This ran earlier this year.
Ending Cleveland County hunger one potato at a time | kings, mountain, cleveland - The Star Online : The Newspaper of Cleveland County (http://www.shelbystar.com/news/kings-53570-mountain-cleveland.html - broken link)
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