Local food supply chains fluctuate with changes in climate and international affairs. The San Antonio Food Bank is working on ways to make farming more sustainable and efficient, trying to insulate the region’s food supply from shifting environmental and political winds.

More than 100,000 people rely on the SA Food Bank each week. Much of the food the bank distributes is fresh produce harvested by the nonprofit’s employees and volunteers. The food bank has 75 ares of land dedicated to agriculture, rotating through many crops: from nopal cactus to figs and potatoes.

Director of food sustainability Mitch Hagney said the farming efforts fit into the food bank’s larger goal: providing food for today, tomorrow and a lifetime.

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