Alec Jacobson

Photographer, Writer
    
Farm to Foodbank for Colorado State University
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Location: Burlington, Vermont, USA
Nationality: American
Biography: Alec Jacobson is a photographer and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, who likes to dive deep into slow-moving stories.  Drawing on his studies in Anthropology, French and Arabic at Amherst College, he prefers to be the only... MORE
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Farm to Foodbank for Colorado State University
Copyright Alec Jacobson 2024
Date of Work Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Updated Jan 2020
Location grand junction
Topics Abundance, Agriculture, Belief, Business, Children, Community, Conservation, Editorial, Essays, Faith, Family, Food, Health/Healing, Homelessness, Hunger, Landscape, NGO, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, School/College, Spotlight, Still life, Travel
At the Colorado State University Extension research farm in Orchard Mesa, Colorado, the crops used to go unharvested.  But then Amanda McQuade came along, marshaling a small army of interns and volunteers to harvest and distribute the produce to food banks around the region.  Now the farm not only adds fresh fruits and vegetables to thousands of meals, but the program has also opened the opportunity for school children from around Grand Junction to visit the farm and connect more deeply with their food.
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