Take a bite out of hunger

  • December 16, 2014
  • /   Staff Reports
  • /   training-development
The average child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before finishing high school. The 2014 Peanut Challenge ensured that children eat locally grown peanuts in healthy, nutritious and yummy peanut butter. The UF/IFAS Santa Rosa County Extension, in partnership with Friends of Extension, collected 2,259 pounds of peanut butter in 1,477 jars to donate to food pantries in Santa Rosa County. The challenge got big support from civic and faith-based organizations that joined in to contribute, along with local businesses, individuals, schools and all county offices including libraries. The peanut butter spread to Bay Area Food Bank, Family Resource of Santa Rosa County and the food pantries at Eastside Baptist Church, First Baptist Milton, Avalon Baptist, First Baptist Bagdad, First United Methodist Church Milton and Christ United Methodist Church. Participants that donated peanut butter or served as collection points included Santa Rosa County, the City of Milton, all five county libraries, Navy Federal Credit Union, 4-H Advisory Council, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Aktion Club at ARC Santa Rosa, Jay Elementary and High School, Central High School, Lowe’s in Pace and Gulf Breeze, Pace Rotary Club, West Florida Research and Education Center, Sam’s Club, Walmart, Winn-Dixie, and United Bank in Jay, Pace and Milton. The Peanut Butter Challenge is an annual project of UF/IFAS Extension in Northwest Florida and the Florida Peanut Producers Association. All county extension offices in Northwest Florida collect donations of peanut butter to help fill the needs of the hungry in our area. In addition, the Florida Peanut Producers Association donates a pallet of peanut butter that is divided among the Northwest Florida counties.
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