Houweling's Tomatoes raises awareness for food education program

CAMARILO, CA - According to a press release, Houweling's Tomatoes will continue to help students in Guatemala learning about eating healthy.

In 2012, Houweling's Tomatoes owner Casey Houweling visited Impact Ministries in Tactic, Guatemala and met the ministry's founders, Les and Rita Peters. The Peters had established six school sites in Tactic to improve education for younger students. Houweling become involved soon after by seeing a need to teach students about nutrition and healthy eating habits. He then founded the 'Seeds of Tomorrow' program. 

Since then, with the help from KUBO Group, industry partners and donations, a propagation greenhouse was constructed and opened on Sept. 30, 2013. Now, an abundance of vegetables are added to the daily meal program, an agriculture program has grown out of the project, and nutrition and home economic classes are taught in all of the Impact Ministry schools. Edgar Suc, a former student at at an Impact Ministry school, is now head farmer of the greenhouse, growing all the fruits and vegetables for the meal programs and selling the extra produce in the market.

Donations for a new commercial kitchen were raised in December 2015 through a Guatemalan themed Gala fundraiser in Ventura County, California. According to a press release, the project is now feeding 1,600 children per day, with high quality food at 40 cents per meal.

Houweling’s Tomatoes continues to fundraise for the project and raise awareness with the goal of changing the cycle of childhood hunger and malnutrition.

For more information about Impact Ministries, visit www.impactministriesusa.org. Donations for the Seeds of Tomorrow Project supporting the daily meal costs can be made online. U.S. donations can be made here and Canadian donations can be made here.