Vandals smashed a vegetable garden for the Gooise food bank last weekend. Little remained of, among other things, the maize plants of the vegetable garden in Huizen, where vegetables are grown for food bank customers. To the horror and anger of manager Hans de Man. “Use your brain, you’re duping people who really need it,” he responds.
Food bank vegetable garden ruined – NH Nieuws
“Yes, very unfortunate,” says Hans, shaking his head in the vegetable garden, where he sets the lines on behalf of the food bank. “People do this, you don’t know what gets into them.” He therefore has no idea who molested the corn plants this weekend. “They just cut it with a machete ‘chak’.”
He can’t think of a really logical reason for deliberately cutting the plant: “You can’t take cuttings yourself in this way (replanting, ed.) and there was still no corn on the cob.”
“Maize is incredibly popular with our food bank customers”
Food bank customers miss out
Yet this means that the customers of the food bank in ‘t Gooi misunderstand. “It is an incredibly popular item with our food bank customers,” explains Hans. The vegetable garden has been specially laid out to make the distribution of the food bank healthier. Very well-known vegetables and herbs such as lettuce and coriander grow here, but also much more exotic varieties such as New Zealand spinach.
Hans therefore likes to get in touch with the perpetrators. “I’m willing to listen to those people what possessed them to just knock this away.”