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With thousands of acres of their own to farm, one might think the Groeneweg family would have little time or opportunity to volunteer to farm another piece of land.

Yet, that’s what they did, helping to grow and harvest 42 acres worth of crop for Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFB), an organization that supports food assistance programs in the developing world.

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“It’s something that I always kind of wanted to do in the background,” said Franck Groeneweg, who owns Green Atlantic Farms near Edgeley with wife Kari. “I’ve always had great respect for Canadian Foodgrains Bank but there was really nothing that we had put together until this came along.”

Originally from France, Groeneweg was living in the United States when, in the early 2000s, he was drawn to Saskatchewan by the amount of land for sale.

“There was a lot of opportunity in land and we had a hard time getting going in other parts of the world, whether it was France or the U.S., and looked at Saskatchewan as something that had to get better,” he said. “So we came here and it’s been a fun endeavour.”