Our partner farmer, Ken Lee at his organic farm in Reedly, CA, where he grows citrus, stone fruit, asian pears, grapes, and persimmons
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🍂✨ This fall’s Farm to School programming fell on the same week as the Mid-Autumn Festival or Chuseok. At Garvey, it was a time to revive the school garden beds— we planted brussels sprouts, purple carrots, bok choy, and long beans; Kids Town’s summer plants continued to thrive, the kids harvested over a dozen asian eggplants, and we made space for a new season of crops including spinach, purple kale, and japanese sweet potatoes. 🥬🍠To celebrate the super-harvest moon, Leah read Thanking the Moon by Grace Lin, and we talked about the significance of the holiday. We enjoyed eating locally-grown watermelon, asian pear, and oranges to symbolize good luck and unity, and the kids observed that all these fruits are round– like the moon! 🍊🌕 California Department of Food and Agriculture Koreatown Youth and Community Center #APIFM #FoodRootsNourish #FarmToSchool #CDFA #KYCCKidsTown #KYCCLA #Koreatown #GarveySchoolDistrict #FreshProduce #GardenBeds #Chuseok #MidAutumnFestival #HarvestSeason … See MoreSee Less

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At the break of dawn, our mighty Distribution Coordinator, armed with the power of precision and our trusty, refrigerated van, swoops in to rescue the freshest fruits and veggies from our food-hero partners at Food Forward. With a van full of nutritional goodness, they race across the city, delivering the precious cargo to our secret packing headquarters: Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA). Meanwhile, the rest of APIFM’s Food Roots Harvest (FRH) team and SIPA staff members assemble inside the recreational space and construct a packing station worthy of legends. As the pallets of produce arrive, our team springs into action! With the speed of lightning, they unload, inspect, and pack the fresh goods into paper bags, ensuring each one is a bag of power and health. Once the final bag is packed, they are rolled up, transported to the distribution site, and unloaded at SIPA's Lucena on Court.  And just like that, our team completes another mission, ensuring that healthy food reaches the hands of those who need it most. Until next time, Food Heroes—stay strong and keep up the good fight!  What else do you spot in this video?
A Day in the Life: Search to Involve Pilipino Americans
Hosting a produce distribution starts in the early morning when our Distribution Coordinator promptly picks up gleaned fruits and vegetables from our food aggregator partner, Food Forward, with our Food Roots LA refrigerated van and delivers to our distribution site, Los Angeles State Historic Park. Simultaneously, the rest of APIFM’s Food Roots Harvest (FRH) team and a LASHP staff member set up the packing station inside the Welcome Pavilion, a resource table outside, and at least 50 accommodating chairs for the older adults waiting for the distribution to start. Once the pallets of produce arrive, the team unloads, quality inspects, and packs the produce into paper bags. During the packing process, the FRH team distributes numbered tickets to the folks waiting in line—which they will exchange for a produce bag. Once packing finishes and tickets are disbursed, produce distribution begins! The numbers are called out in Cantonese, Toisan, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and English. The community waits for their number to be called. When it is, they trade their ticket for a produce bag. What else do you spot in this video?
A Day in the Life: Hosting a Produce Distribution
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