Food banks prepare for Thanksgiving as demand soars amid coronavirus pandemic | Globalnews.ca

Edmonton Food Bank vice chair David Benjestorf is photographed with soups made from food harvested at his farm at Kitchen By Brad in Edmonton on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Benjestorf harvested 95,000 pounds of food this year at his farm, much of which was donated to the Food Bank. The vice-chair of Edmonton’s food bank says he decided to take matters onto his own land when COVID-19 shut down Alberta in March.The uncertainty of how food banks would operate and an unprecedented spike in demand prompted David Benjestorf to decide he would farm just over nine hectares he had purchased six years ago on the western edge of St. Albert, Alta.

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