San Antonio food bank, federal parks join to provide produce

Longtime mission priest Jim Galvin told the San Antonio Express-News (http://bit.ly/1TNrCBh ) that he never imagined the food bank would partner with the national parks "to benefit so many people."

Under the agreement, the food bank will maintain a five-acre demonstration farm to grow corn and other historic crops, using labor-intensive irrigation canals.

The food bank, the largest hunger relief operation in South Texas that networks with 530 nonprofits and with programs in 16 counties, seemed to be an ideal partner, Arce said.