Enloe's Third Annual Garden Gallop

The third annual Food Shuttle Garden Gallop 5k was hosted by Broughton Food Ark last Saturday, in collaboration with other student-run food ark chapters including Enloe, Panther Creek, and Sanderson. 50 participants took their mark to run, walk, skip, or gallop the 2.6 mile route through beautiful Dorothea Dix park. The goal of the event is to spread awareness of food insecurity in North Carolina and raise funds to combat this pressing issue. All proceeds of the event were donated to Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, a hunger-relief organization that reaches seven counties in and around the Triangle.

Inter-Faith food shuttle plans to allocate these funds to their Agriculture Education Initiative, which includes programs such as Spring Scouts and Seed to Supper. Spring Scouts is a skills-based afterschool program that teaches students about cooking, gardening, and nutrition education in a hands-on, fun and engaging way. Seed to Supper also incorporates education as a solution, providing a five-week beginners gardening course, teaching individuals how to grow their own fruits and vegetables, build backyard gardens, and sustain their harvest. Children, young people, and families throughout our community will benefit from support to these programs.

Enloe Food Ark hopes to make the race a popular school-wide tradition in coming years, as well as involve the totality of our student body in benefitting this cause. Coming up at the end of the school year, The Food Ark will hold its annual CAM Jam dance. Benefits from this event will also be donated to organizations aiming to end food insecurity in North Carolina, so be sure to look out for this exciting Enloe tradition later this Spring and be a part of the change.