Bloomington-Normal native donates 14 tons of sweet corn to Midwest Food Bank

Posted on August 3, 2023

*The Midwest Food Bank in Normal received over 14 tons of sweet corn on Thursday. (Photo courtesy: Midwest Food Bank)*

By Blake Haas

NORMAL – Nothing is sweeter than giving back to the community – especially when it’s sweet corn.

On Thursday, the Midwest Food Bank received a 14-ton donation of sweet corn.

Dr. Dave Nayak donated the corn from his farms in Gardner, Illinois.

As a proud Central-Illinoisan, Midwest serves many food-insecure who do not know where their next meal may come from. We hope that our model will help incentivize more farmers throughout our wonderful state and beyond to donate their yield or yield-equivalent to our Food Banks. Because at the end of the day, we all have an inherent responsibility to be a good neighbor to those around us in our communities,” said Dr. Dave Nayak in a news release.

Last year, Farms fed over 100,000 people by donating their sweet corn to Illinois Food Banks.

The Normal West High School boy’s soccer team prepared the corn for future distributions.

Blake Haas can be reached at [email protected].

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