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Garden groups and city officials push local solutions after food truck suspends service
Summary
Community gardeners, pantry volunteers and the city discussed ways to stabilize food access after a regional food-distribution truck stopped visiting New Carlisle; garden groups described education and on-site processing as part of the response.
At a New Carlisle City Council meeting, city staff and local garden leaders described steps to mitigate a recent suspension of a regional food-distribution truck and to expand locally produced food distribution and education.
Speakers said a food truck run by a regional distributor stopped serving New Carlisle; community gardeners and pantry volunteers described expanded local activity — including market sales, a summer kitchen for group processing, and educational classes — intended to replace some lost capacity. "I call it 'harvest dilemma,'" Jefferson Street Oasis manager Terry Frederick said, describing the difficulty gardeners face getting fresh produce harvested and processed quickly enough for pantry distribution.
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