Pictured l to r: Jay Gould, Adams County FSA; Joyce Bolinger, Kosciusko County FSA; Jennifer Walker, Allen County FSA; Stacey Thrush, DeKalb County FSA; Katrina Wangler, Jay County FSA; Anya Pinkerton, Randolph County FSA; Scott Mynsberge, Jay County NRCS; Nancy Best, Randolph County FSA.
More than 4,900 ears of corn were donated to Indiana food pantries this week as members of the Winchester USDA Service Center and the Davis Purdue Ag Center’s People’s Garden joined forces to spend nearly two hours harvesting 411 dozen ears of sweet corn. This was the first harvest of the joint People’s Garden effort, which received help from the Jay County Future Farmers of America. Despite having the third wettest season on record, the corn survived and was donated to nine area food pantries.
—by Nancy Best, executive director, FSA, Randolph County Indiana
