Dauphin's food bank will be getting a donation from a local farmer come harvest time.
Don Dewar says he typically rents the land immediately north of the city's lagoon, but the city has purchased that area from the RM for lagoon expansion.
With the city's blessing, Dewar will this year work unused land there rent-free, for the benefit of the Dauphin Food Bank.
"We still hope we can rent it in the future once it's all done but we don't know how much is going to be used and how much is going to be available this year for crop. So I was just proposing that this year we'll see what happens. We'll grow crop on it with the help of different area suppliers... we'll do the work, and money (from the) crop will be sold for the benefit of the Dauphin Food Bank," says Dewar.
Dewar says it will be a small number of acres, and he thinks they'll be okay, but he may try and get some help for harvest.
Mayor Eric Irwin says council is 100 per cent behind the initiative.
