Uproot volunteers put in a little sweat equity to pick a hill of beans for the Food Bank
By Jaclyn Schrock
Last week the Weld County Food Bank received at least 2,000 pounds of fresh green beans. Only eight Uproot volunteers showed up in northeastern Colorado beyond Greeley, last Thursday. We gleaned a small portion of the 50 rows designated to be given to the Food Bank. The eight volunteers picking beans about three hours each barely filled half a container of beans. Fortunately, the farmer pitched in with his big combine and in two passes he had finished the job, and made a hill of beans so to speak.
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