23ABC Gives: Senior Food Drive accepting donations at different locations across Kern County today turnto23.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from turnto23.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
23ABC Senior Food Drive: Kern County sees increase in community seeking food assistance amid the pandemic
Food insecurity is a fact in Kern County
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BAKERSFIELD, Cali â Food insecurity is a fact in Kern County, this is why 23ABC is partnering with the Community Partnership of Kern for the first ever 23ABC Gives Senior Food Drive. Together we can help make sure our grandparents, the elders of our community, have access to nutritious meals.
âIt has helped us out a great deal, especially since I lost my job due to the pandemic,â Steve Rasmussen, a Kern County Resident, said.
23ABC Gives: Senior Food Drive, accepting donations at different locations across Kern County to help those in need turnto23.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from turnto23.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
23ABC Gives: Senior Food Drive looks to help find food desert solutions Bakersfield was the top hungriest city in the US
23ABC is partnering with the Community Action Partnership of Kern to help provide the daily nutrition needs of many of the county s residents, including those within our county who may be in a food desert.
Posted at 5:11 PM, Mar 01, 2021
and last updated 2021-03-15 18:31:24-04
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) â 23ABC is partnering with the
Community Action Partnership of Kern to help provide the daily nutrition needs of many of the county s residents, including those within our county who may be in a food desert.
Over the past 10,000 years,
Cicer arietinum has gone from being a wild bean in the Neolithic Fertile Crescent to a legume so valuable that its seeds are frozen at Svalbard Global Seed Vault to research and cultivate for future generations.
Chickpeas as we know them today (often referred to by their Spanish name
garbanzos) are considered a sustainable, regenerative crop. The plant not only converts atmospheric nitrogen into a soluble form within soil as a natural fertilizer, but also sequesters carbon, is relatively drought tolerant and can help break disease and weed cycles when used as a cover crop.
Grown predominantly in India, chickpeas also are cultivated in Australia, Canada, Mexico, Myanmar, Pakistan, Turkey and the United States. Chickpeas reached a total global market share of 12.7 million tons in 2019, with forecasts projecting substantial growth through 2025 as demand continues to rise.