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HERE’S A GLIMPSE OF WHAT’S HAPPENING IN
YOUR AG COMMUNITY. To view more events like the ones
you see here, visit our website at www.FloridaAgNews.com
and click on our AgriCalendar.

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HAINES CITY FARMERS’ MARKET
HAPPY EASTER!
HARVEST CELEBRATION
LAKELAND DOWNTOWN FARMERS
CURB MARKET
Stop by Railroad Park in down- Join Polk County Farm Bureau for their
town Haines City and check out annual Harvest Celebration event, 6 p.m. The Lakeland farmers market is
all the great local produce and at Lake Eva Banquet Hall in Haines
open every Saturday (except

products available, held every City! Tickets are on sale now. For
August), from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.,
Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 2 more information or to purchase tickets, in the street at the intersection of April 22
p.m. For more information, call contact any PCFB board member,
E. Pine Street and N. Kentucky EARTH DAY
(863) 421-3700.
email carolem@pcfb.org or call
Avenue. Enjoy produce from

(863) 533-0561, ext. 111.
farmers plus resale produce,
artisans and street food, music
and more. For more informa-

tion, contact Becky Abel, LDDA April 29
May 3
Coordinator at (863) 687-8910 AG LITERACY DAY!
CINCO DE MAYO AT THE GROVE
or visit www.downtownfarmer-
The annual reading event is a chance for HOUSE
scurbmarket.org.
farmers, ranchers, University of Florida IFAS Come out to the Florida’s Natu-

extension and 4-H agents and master gardeners, ral Grove House at 20160 U.S.
FFA teachers and students and agriculture Hwy 27 in Lake Wales from 10
industry representatives to read a children’s
a.m. to 2 p.m. and check out
book about the Florida agriculture industry to all the dips for your Cinco De May 16
BGCCF CELEBRATION THE CHILDREN
students in kindergarten through ifth grade.
Mayo party. For more informa- DINNER & AUCTION
To learn more or to register a class or
tion, call (863) 679-4110.
a reader, go to www.agtag.com.
The annual fundraiser for the
Boys and Girls Club of Central
Florida will begin at 6 p.m.,
and will be held at the Orlando
May 8
May 10-11
World Center Marriott. All WINTER HAVEN
EIGHTH ANNUAL WALK BACK IN TIME
proceeds from the event will FARMERS’ MARKET
beneit the organization and its The Florida Agricultural Museum is hosting this annual re-enactment
Enjoy the spring weather and from Florida’s past both days from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event
continued efforts to help local get fresh produce!
will also feature living history demonstrations including pine needle
youth realize their full potential.
For more information about Head down to the farmers’ basketry, blacksmithing, and palm frond hat weaving. Food and
market, held weekly on craft vendors will also be onsite. Guests will walk on the mile long
tickets or auction items, please Thursdays, from 8-5 p.m.
trail around the museum’s ive acre lake, so appropriate clothing and
call Kathleen Sipio at (267) For more information, contact walking shoes are recommended. For more information, visit www.
760-7140, or email ksipio@
Audrey McIntosh at
myagmuseum.com.
bgccf.org.
(863) 291-5870.

THE FACTS ABOUT FOOD WASTE

WORK IN THE COLD-STORAGE
and Agriculture Organization.
storage for highly perishable

industry presents many opportunities When you hear and read stories
items. Professionally, it’s a
to review facts and igures about a com- about human hunger around the globe serious reminder to all of

modity we thoroughly enjoy and abso- (Feeding America reports that hunger us in the food industry to
lutely need—food. he statistics oten are is a struggle, too, for one in six people be on top of our game, to

interesting but sometimes very sobering. in the United States) and see pictures of maintain our facilities and

Consider this:
starving children, these statistics truly are equipment very well,
A staggering 40 percent of food numbing.
to constantly train our
by BEN ADAMS, JR.
produced in the United States goes When you think about food waste, employees, to monitor
uneaten. Totaling $165 billion worth you have to consider not only the value closely the commodities

of waste annually, that’s just in the USA of the food, but also the unrecoverable entrusted to us, to follow
alone, according to an August 2012 time and signiicant expense of growing, industry rules and best practices, and to
BIO: Ben Adams Jr. is an owner and president
issue paper from the Natural Resources processing, packaging, and ultimately— be extremely vigilant in safeguarding our of Adams Cold Storage LLC in Auburndale. He
Defense Council (NRDC). Worldwide, delivery to the marketplace.
food supply. Individually, these troubling has been directly involved in citrus production,

the waste comes to 1.3 billion tons Waste can happen at any point in statistics about food waste might give us warehousing and distribution, as well as state
and community support, since 1980. His facility
per year, or one-third of all the food the food-supply chain—from “farm to pause to think about the sage advice from incorporates 200,000 square feet of multi-tem-
produced for human consumption, fork,” the NRDC report reminds us— our elders: “Don’t let your eyes get too big perature warehousing, with an extensive expan-

according to the United Nations’ Food
and that includes cold transport and
for your stomach.”
sion project currently under way.

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