Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening

podcast. Kevin here we've got Ian McKenna back on the

podcast. He's a Youth Hunger Advocate. You can actually check him out on

Instagram. It's Garden

underscore 4-under-hunger. The links to everything that Ian does is going to be

in the podcast description. We've been talking about growing for donating and

supporting your community, especially people who are food insecure.

But I guess the practical question I would have, Ian, is if it's my first time trying this,

I can imagine a gardener doesn't really know where to bring that produce how do I

actually get it to someone. So if you're just starting out the easiest way

would be to donate to like a food bank.

Now personally, I don't like to do it, give it to food banks just because I like to see the impact it has on someone.

So usually what I'll do is I'll bring it to talk to the, sorry, usual I'll bring it to talk to the,

sorry, usual I'll do is I'll talk to food pantries near me.

And I had partnered with one food pantry where

every week I would set up a table in the food pantry with my

harvest on that and people would come by and they could take what they needed without having to spend their points on it.

Because the way that the food pantry works is each family depending on the size and age of the members

would get a certain amount of points they could spend in the food. depending on the size and age of the members,

we get sort of amount of points they could spend in the pantry.

Okay, so you sort of have this free points zone of the food pantry.

Yeah, and I was planning on doing that for a long time, but then Hurricane Hardy came and there was tons of flooding around Austin and the food pantries actually completely ruined by the rain.

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