The Canadian Foodgrains Bank held an information evening in Boissevain on April 15th.
2011 was not a great year for the local growing project.
Ben Martens a Boissevain area farmer says 2011 was the first time volunteers were unable to plant a crop.
Harold Penner with the Foodgrains Bank spoke to local sdupporters about the bank, its work around the world and how local efforts go a long way to helping the bank to emet its mandate.
The Boissevain-Morton-Whitewater project will be a field of 300 acres of canola on the Del Fraser farm near Fairfax.
The local growing project has raised more than $600,000 dollars for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank over the past 14 years.
Harold Penner talks about overseas projects
Boissevain area farmer Ben Martens