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From YouTube: Buncombe Life - August 2012 - Community Gardens
Description
In this edition of Buncombe Life, host Kathy Hughes visits the Buncombe County Sport Parks Community Garden where volunteers are putting their time in to gathering this years harvest. From there Kathy follows the produce to MANNA Food Bank in Asheville, NC, where we are given a tour of how things work at MANNA and the processes that take place on disbursing donated produce as it ends up in the hands of citizens in need.
A
My
name
is
a
I'm
from
anchor
Hills
neighborhood
habitat
neighborhood.
We
started
up
this
garden.
Almost
a
year
ago,
we
were
very
enthusiastic
in
our
first
year.
It
needs
a
lot
of
work
before
the
soul
can
really
produce
some
nice
good
news,
but
it's
a
nice
group
of
people
that
we
are
working
together
with
roughly
25
neighbors
that
are
involved
and
we
have
three
teams
working
sadly
morning,
Monday
night
Wednesday
night,
my.
B
C
Welcome
to
this
edition
of
buncombe
loss.
Have
you
ever
seen
anything
so
gorgeous?
Look
at
this
I
wish.
I
could
say:
I
picked
this
out
of
my
garden.
No,
it
came
out
of
a
place
that
we're
just
about
to
visit
somewhere.
You
could
participate
in.
You
can
at
least
come
out
and
see
it
if
nothing
else
and
you
need
to
so
stay
tuned
for
this
edition
of
buncombe
life.
While
we
visit
buncombe
county
is
community
organic
garden.
C
C
C
Is
so
that's
why
we're
here
today
to
tell
you
about
the
community
garden?
Why
it's
here,
where
it's
at
and
I'm
here
with
lynn
peg
she's
with
Parks
and
Rec
Buncombe
County,
Parks,
greenways
and
recreation,
get
your
whole
toggle
out
there
and
we
like
a
center
here.
It
is
beautiful.
I
want
the
folks
at
home
to
come
out
and
see
this,
but
I
also
want
you
to
tell
us
about
it.
This
is
so
forth.
That's
what
I
know
about
it
about
22
to
25.
Neighbors
come
out
here.
C
D
Buncombe
County
applied
for
a
grant
with
nourishing
North
Carolina
Blue
Cross,
Blue
Shield
and
the
North
Carolina
Recreation
and
Parks
Association
to
start
up
a
community
garden
and
in
the
county's
master
plan
of
the
sports
park
out
here
in
ANCA.
One
of
the
things
that
we
talked
about
was
putting
in
a
community
garden,
because
we
have
this
nice
big,
open
space,
perfect.
C
C
D
Is
for
the
community
and
it
doesn't
have
to
be
just
members
of
this
particular
community
there.
Anybody
in
Buncombe
County
is
welcome
to
come
out
here.
Be
a
part
of
this.
We've
got
work
groups
that
come
out
here
and
tend
the
garden
on
monday
and
wednesday
evenings
from
about
5
30
to
7
and
then
on
Saturday
mornings.
Early
they've
got
a
facebook
page
santi
OU
community
garden,
so
you
can
join
them
there
when.
D
It
it's
never
too
late.
Yeah,
we're
always
looking
for
new
members
to
join
in
and
help
work
in
the
garden.
We
hope
to
have
things
planted
year-round.
Of
course
it's
summertime
now,
which
is
what
most
people
right,
I
see
their
gardens
growing,
but
they're
already
planning
crops
for
the
fall
and
winter
mm-hmm
and
then
again
in
the
spring.
So.
C
C
C
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D
G
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D
C
D
E
D
D
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I
I
The
WC
farmers
market
is
located
on
a
36
acre
site,
overlooking
a
beautiful
blue
ridge,
mountains
and
Biltmore
Estate.
It
is
located
in
Asheville,
North
Carolina,
which
is
within
a
two-hour
drive
of
a
tremendous
volume
of
horticultural
products.
There
are
three
kinds
of
produce
markets:
wholesale
retail
and
farmers.
The
WC
farmers
market
has
a
blend
of
all
three.
We
are
located
in
the
heart
of
the
apple
and
tomato
production
areas
and
close
to
the
South
Carolina
peach
production
area.
I
You
can
find
the
whole
alphabet
of
fruits
and
vegetables
at
the
WC
farmers
market
from
Apple's
to
zucchini,
as
well
as
Mountain
crafts
jams
and
jellies,
ornamental
plants,
flowers,
baked
goods
and
honey.
The
market
is
a
wonderful
place
to
find
farm
fresh
vine,
ripened
and
tree
ripen
produce
at
a
reasonable
price.
A
VNC
farmers
market
is
conveniently
located
off
interstate
40
at
exit,
47
and
off
interstate
26
at
exit
33
in
Asheville.
Our
address
is
574
our
growth,
whether
you
are
looking
to
stretch
your
food
budget,
entertain
you,
friends
or
family.
J
J
Have
you
had
your
travel
vaccinations,
yet
it's
recommended
to
get
your
travel
vaccines
four
to
six
weeks
before
you
leave.
There
are
three
types
of
vaccines
for
travel,
routine,
recommended
and
required,
so
be
sure
that
your
family
gets
the
correct
vaccine
at
the
proper
time
before
your
trip
visit,
www
NC,
cdc,
gov
/
travel
to
learn
more
about
health
and
safety
tips
when
traveling
out
of
the
country
and
enjoy
your
vacation.
J
C
We
have
followed
the
food
that
you
saw
BIC
at
Macomb,
County,
community
garden
here
to
manna
Food
Bank
10%.
They
said
about
food
picked
over
at
that.
Gordon
is
being
donated
here,
tamanna
in
just
a
few
minutes.
We're
gonna
go
inside
we're
gonna
meet
Jen
way.
She's
gonna
show
us
what
they
do
here
at
manna:
how
the
volunteers
help
and
how
the
food
that's
donated
gets
out
to
the
people
in
the
community
that
need
it
so
sit
back
and
relax
and
let's
follow
the
food.
C
Okay,
we
come
inside
the
warehouse,
as
you
can
see.
Behind
us,
I've
been
joined
by
gin,
weight
and
Jen.
You
are
the
food
sourcing
manager,
like
she
just
told
me
the
hunter-gatherer.
She
goes
down
funds
all
this
great
stuff
and
puts
it
together
here
inside
manna,
Food
Bank,
all
right,
correct,
okay,
like
we'd,
like
I,
told
you
just
a
few
minutes
ago.
We
have
followed
the
food
that
you
found
at
that
beautiful
garden.
Here,
tamanna,
you
came
out
there
the
other
day
and
got
it.
Ok,
you
brought
it
back
here.
What
happened
to
it?
It.
C
C
C
E
There
groups
that
are
nonprofit
groups,
either
church-affiliated
nonprofits
places
like
church,
pantries,
soup,
kitchens,
emergency
shelters
right
also
day
care
centers.
Any
kind
of
nonprofit
that
serves
clients
in
can
access
food
from
us,
so
we're
kind
of
like
a
wholesaler
or
supermarket
for
nonprofits.
C
E
C
E
C
E
We
work
with
the
food
industry,
so
the
large
donors,
the
ingalls,
the
Walmarts
of
the
world,
large
packing
houses,
farmers
all
the
way
to
the
community
gardeners
dropping
up
one
bag
of
food,
bring
it
in
on
a
large
scale.
Sword.
It
volunteers,
helped
us
immensely
sort,
make
sure
everything's,
safe
and
accounted
for
and
then
distribute
it
to
people
in
need
and.
C
E
Are
seasonal
needs
we
we
need
help
year-round,
definitely
right
now,
it's
a
summer
school
kids
are
out
of
school,
need
some
food,
you
know.
Normally
they
might
be
getting
it
at
school
they're
not
getting
it
there.
So
some
needs
kind
of
vary
throughout
the
year,
but
there's
a
constant
level
of
need.
So.
E
Our
primary
purpose
is
for
agencies.
We,
if
a
persons
in
need,
if
they
call
us,
we
can
help
find
them
a
place
to
go
near
them
right
and,
and
our
purpose
is
to
supply
the
agency.
Is
that
the
other
way
we
help
people
directly
is
near
our
mana
packs
program
mm-hmm,
which
distributes
to
school
kids
friday
afternoon
so
give
gives
them
a
little
boost
through
the
weekend.
Oh.
C
No,
that
is
too
cool
and
if
somebody
knows
of
a
kid
who
needs
that
is
that
go
through
the
schools
or
does
that
come
through
you
talk
to
the
school
guidance?
Okay,
okay.
Now
this
is
a
question
that
I
understand
the
question,
but
it
is
a
hard
question.
There's
a
lot
of
obesity
around
everybody
knows
that.
Are
there
really
hungry
people?
That's
a
question.
Let
me
just
tell
our
folks
on
that.
C
E
That's
a
question
we
get
posed
a
lot
and
what
what
we
find
is
that
obesity
is
often
a
symptom
of
malnutrition
or
poor
nutrition.
If
you
put
yourself
in
the
shoes
of
a
family
on
a
limited
budget
think
about,
if
you
only
have
forty
dollars
that
week
to
feed
your
family,
are
you
going
to
go,
buy
pints
of
blueberries,
no
and
broccoli
or
are
you
gonna,
buy
Raymond,
noodles,
spaghetti.
E
E
Exactly
right
and
that's
the
food
that
you
see
coming
from
the
community
garden
is
is
like
gold
to
us.
It's
it's
fresh,
fresh
picked.
It
giv
gives
us
a
few
days.
You
know
where,
when
you
get
into
the
hands
of
people
who
need
it,
it's
right
out
of
the
earth
yeah
full
of
vitamins-
yeah,
it's
just
beautiful
stuff.
So
we
really
appreciate
it
so.
H
C
E
On
volunteers,
like
you
wouldn't
believe
those
mana
packs
the
backpacks
for
kids,
each
and
every
week
have
to
be
packed
by
volunteers.
We
count
on
volunteers
to
sort
food
label
food.
Sometimes
we
get
volunteers
out
in
the
garden
out
in
out
in
gleaning
food
from
garden,
so
we
can
put
you
to
work,
so
they
just
have.
C
To
call
just
give
us
a
call
put
that
information
up
on
the
screen
for
you
I
think
it
would
be
exciting
thing
to
do.
I
may
have
to
come
down
here.
This
is
very
interesting.
I've
been
it's
just
so
much
of
it.
It's
just
so
confusing.
It's
like
how
do
you
know
what
goes
where
but
y'all
do
cuz
we've
seen.
E
F
C
C
I'm,
so
glad
you've
stayed
with
us
because
if
you
watch
the
whole
show
you
remember,
we
started
out
at
the
community
garden
on
come
County's
new
community
garden,
which
you
can
be
a
part
of.
Then
we
followed
the
food
from
the
community
garden
to
manna.
Food
Bank
we've
continued
to
follow
the
food,
and
now
I'm
here
with
Barbara
Bel,
that's
loving
food
resources.
Your
volunteer
for
loving
for.
C
Okay,
we're
gonna
find
out
all
about
that,
but
I
just
think
it's
so
cool
how
we
started
out
of
the
garden.
We
went
to
food
bank
and
then
from
the
food
bank.
You
guys
go
to
manna
right
on
Tuesday
on
Tuesdays
and
get
food
and
I
look
here.
So
from
that
garden,
we
were
telling
the
folks
at
home
that,
even
if
they
raise
their
own
garden,
if
they
want
to
donate
food,
they
can
certainly
take
it
to
manna
and
donate
it.
That's
right,
but
you
have
people
who
actually
donate.
K
C
K
C
C
H
K
Tuesdays
we
go
to
manna
and
bring
the
food
back
in
the
produce
back
way.
The
creditors
put
it
in
then
refrigerate
the
produce
that
needs
to
be
refrigerated
and
do
the
pre
pack
bags
for
the
boxes
on
Wednesday.
We
have
a
team
that
comes
in
and
finishes
the
shelving
on
Wednesday,
and
then
we
also
have
volunteers
for
special
events
and
committees
right.
K
Very
pretty
and
organ
attar
has
been
here,
has
been
in
existence
we're
in
our
22nd
year,
and
so
this
has
been
a
work
in
progress.
We
started
out
in
the
loft
of
the
All
Souls
Episcopal
Church,
and
about
a
year
and
a
half
I
think
they
came
to
this
pantry
and
we
had
a
third
of
the
space
we
have
now
and
did
pre
pack
boxes
yeah,
and
the
long-term
goal
was
to
get
to
the
point
that
clients
could
come
through
and
pick
from
the
things
on
the
shelves.
So
the
clients.
C
K
Must
be
referred
by
an
agency
or
a
physician.
Much
of
our
hospice
clients
come
from
care
partners,
hospice
the
Western
North
Carolina
AIDS
Project,
the
Western
North
Carolina
Community,
Health,
Service
Asheville
infectious
disease
and
some
some
physicians
who
are
treating
persons
living
with
HIV
and
AIDS.
That.
K
C
K
C
C
One
that
Barbara
wonderful,
I
hope
you
found
a
consistent
theme
through
the
sitar
show
volunteers
we're
at
the
community
garden,
which
I
really
want
y'all
to
come
out
and
see
volunteers.
Make
that
happen.
We
were
at
manna
genex
at
Jen,
said
volunteers
make
this
happen.
We
come
here
to
where
the
food
actually
touches
the
person
and
it's
volunteers.
Again,
one
hundred
percent
volunteers
they
get
the
food
out.
Both
I'm
County
is
an
amazing
place
to
live.
We
are
so
blessed
with
the
food
and
an
ability
to
get
it
to
people.