The Food Policy Council of San Antonio worked with the city and county to secure the area's first garden aimed at addressing food inequity.
Courtesy / Mitch Hagney
While it will take five to 10 years for the trees to successfully bear edible fruit, Hagney said he’s excited to see the project finally get underway. The food forest has been a dream of his and the Food Policy Council’s for a while now, Hagney said, and the nonprofit has been working closely with the city’s Office of Innovation and the county’s Parks Division for the past year to see the project through.
Having a lot of that legwork already done made it easy to work with the Food Policy Council to help it find the right piece of county land, McGlamery told the San Antonio Report. To launch the food forest, the Food Policy Council received $25,000 from the city’s Office of Innovation, $5,000 from the Texas Food and Wine Alliance and additional funds through private donations, Hagney said.
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