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Folks to support farmers, ranchers
with purchase of $1 burgers Guadalupe County observes Texas Food Connection Day Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- Today is the day that you will be reminded of exactly where the food on your table comes from. Today is Texas Food Connection Day in which urban and rural neighbors are encouraged to come together and celebrate food and the work that goes into growing it. Here in Guadalupe County, the Farm Bureau works to further ensure those conversations by treating the public to $1 hamburgers. Each year in February, the local farm bureau office grills the hamburgers in its parking lot. Darin Klaehn, the president of the Guadalupe County Farm Bureau board of directors, says while $1 burgers might sound amazing, the dollar amount symbolizes much more than just a good deal. “Normally, the dollar represents the amount of money that is shared
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amongst the farmers and ranchers. It’s less than that but that’s kind of where the number the $1 comes from. That’s what our gross profit is that we have to share,” said Klaehn. Klaehn says this longtime tradition has been critical in getting the community to thank a farmer or
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rancher. He says there’s no better way than to observe this day than food. “So, we cook 300 burgers. That’s the number we normally do. So, we have 300 hamburgers that we are going to cook. We start serving at 11 a.m. It is a first come first serve.
When we run out, unfortunately, it usually happens about the first hour and half that we run out and we will have burgers for $1 and we will have drinks and chips for $1,” said Klaehn. Klaehn says the Texas Food Connection Day event remains the perfect way to feed growing appetites -- appetites for both food and knowledge. “One of the big things that we want people to understand is where their food truly comes from. Who grows it? Who provides it? So instead of focusing that HEB provides it, it is the farmers and the ranchers of the community, of the state that are growing the food that everyone eats and then on top of that, it is the when you happen to see a tractor driving down the road, the safety on how wide our equipment is, how big our equipment... Burgers, pg. 4