Food Bank receives two tonne donation from Flying Dust First Nation – StarPhoenix
February 22, 2017
Having too much food is usually never a problem — unless you’ve run out of places to keep it.
Storage is tight at the Flying Dust First Nation’s Market Garden. That lack of space, paired with the support of corporate buyers, has resulted in two tonnes of Saskatchewan-grown potatoes making their way to the Saskatoon Food Bank.
The garden’s main buyer is Thomas Fresh, which packages and distributes produce across Canada. The company tells Flying Dust how many acres worth of potatoes it will purchase at the beginning of the growing season, but only about 65 per cent of the harvest will be up to grocery store standards. That’s where the food bank comes in.
