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By Keaton Brown

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Good Food Box program gaining traction in Green Lake

Oct 10, 2019 | 3:21 PM

A new program in Green Lake designed to help provide healthy food for those who are not able to afford fresh fruits and vegetables every month is picking up momentum.

The Good Food Box program is a non-profit community initiative between KidsFirst and Gaylynn Ray, the Community Outreach Education Worker at the Green Lake Health Centre. Everyone who signs up for the program will receive a box filled with fruits, vegetables and grains once a month for $25.

“Our first boxes we had grapes, apples, oranges, and a good sized amount… We had onions, carrots, corn and we put boxes of stuffing in there because it was Thanksgiving coming up. Just a few more little things here and there, we have four fruits and four vegetables and one grain,” Ray said.

The boxes will be similar from month to month but quantities can increase if they have a large number of people register for the month.

“Depending on the amount of people that we do get it, could be more but it will never be less. It is just the more people we get, the cheaper it is to buy in bulk but we do maintain that it will never be less than the [$25],” she said.

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Ray said that their first month saw 26 people receive boxes and they have already been fielding calls from other residents interested in the program now that they have seen them first hand.

“I know that after we did the Good Food Box I had a flood of phone calls come in that they do want it now. It is positive, people were just trying to see what it was going to be and what was going to be in the boxes,” she said.

Similar programs around northern Saskatchewan that have been running for a longer period of time see anywhere between 50 and 100 boxes handed out each month.

Anyone interested in signing up for the Good Food Box program is encouraged to contact Gaylynn Ray at 306-832-6255.

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Keaton.brown@jpbg.ca

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