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Annual North Little Rock Watermelon Crawl
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Editor-in-Chief
North Little Rock, Arkansas – Once more, the hour had arrived. The annual Watermelon Crawl in North Little Rock takes place on Saturday morning.
This past weekend, around a hundred volunteers harvested watermelons for the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance.
The hunger relief coalition cultivated a five-acre watermelon field at Stone Links Park, where the melons were picked up.
The Arkansas Foodbank will then distribute them from that point on.
“The volunteers will harvest them, and put them in the boxes, we take the boxes and we will actually deliver them to the Arkansas Food Bank from the field, and they will be distributed out starting Monday morning,” Brandon Chapman, Food sourcing and logistics manager for Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance stated.
During the event, almost 60,000 pounds of watermelons were harvested.
In 2011, the coalition held its inaugural watermelon crawl. Through comparable initiatives, an estimated 13 million pounds of food have been saved since 2008.
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