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have had food pantry organizers coming from Shawano, Wausau, Tomahawk, Rhinelander, Minocqua and Price County, just canada goose outlet store uk to name a few, reports Bryan Bowen, superintendent at the Rhinelander station.

Dane County food distributors have received a wide variety of produce from the university West Madison station, cheap canada goose including some new super sweet watermelon varieties that won hit supermarket shelves for a year or canada goose outlet uk sale two. Volunteers at the Allen Centennial canada goose outlet in usa Gardens on campus recently loaded a trailer with purple okra, multicolored cabbages and other bounty from an edibles garden for a food pantry across town.

At the sprawling Arlington agricultural research station, volunteers gathered up about 50,000 pounds of cabbage and 15,000 pounds of potatoes as part of canada goose outlet a community food pantry garden canada goose clearance program coordinated by emeritus faculty and canada goose store staff.

Since these research and teaching facilities exist to glean and distribute knowledge, canada goose black friday sale the food they produce is technically a canada goose outlet toronto factory byproduct. But it getting put to very good use.

The canada goose uk outlet mission of the Rhinelander station, for example, is to develop new lines of potatoes. Each year the station ends up with canada goose coats on sale a surplus of potatoes from plants that don make Canada Goose Online the cut as potential new varieties, explains Bowen.

are looking to find all the desired breeding traits canada goose jacket outlet combined in one plant, he says. of the plants don have the right mix of traits, but the potatoes they produce are perfectly good to eat. more than 60 years, canada goose outlet online uk that surplus has gone to the canada goose outlet store state prison canada goose outlet shop system in exchange for harvest labor. That still happens. But in recent years, part of the harvest has gone to north central Wisconsin food pantries. This year the volume of potatoes donated increased dramatically, thanks to cash and in kind contributions from local farms and businesses that help offset the cost of harvest and handling.

On just one day in cheap canada goose September, 20 tons were picked up for distribution by the Salvation Army in Wausau and a food pantry in Shawano. Canada Goose Jackets A lot of people pitched in to make that happen, says Bob canada goose Gutknecht of the Wausau https://www.rheingoenheim-info.de office of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, who helped coordinate the effort.

Rhinelander station provided the potatoes and oversight of the harvest. The Department of Corrections brought in 12 inmates for hand picking and bagging, Gutknecht says.

Zeloski Farms in Eagle River donated burlap bags, while Ardex, a mineral company in Shawano, supplied a truck, and canada goose outlet parka Bennett Hardwoods in Wausau provided a staging for distribution, he adds.

The first half of the 20 tons picked up that day went to the Salvation Army in Wausau to feed about 750 families. The second load went to canada goose outlet online Shawano, where food bank organizers estimated that the potatoes would be distributed within a week and a half.

we returned to Rhinelander for the second load, I told one of the inmates working at the station that the potatoes he helped bag were already being distributed to over 700 families. He was proud of that and told us that he would be calling his mom to let her know that even though he was in prison, he was doing good things for people, Gutknecht says.