Photo by Lindsay Kennedy - TALL XIII The High Plains Food Bank is certainly a model for all other food banks.  This is a non-profit organization that collects food and distributes food over 30,000 square miles of the Texas Panhandle.  A staggering statistic – 1 out of every 6 is at risk of [...]

Photo by Lindsay Kennedy - TALL XIII Our day began in Hereford, Texas at the White Energy Ethanol Plant.  This plant produces 100 million gallons.  There is not enough corn in the area to supply the plant so over 25 rail cars a day are brought in from the Mid-West.  That is one [...]

Photo by Lindsay Kennedy - TALL XIII First stop was the Lubbock Cotton Growers Co-op Gin.   This co-op gin was established in 1939 and destroyed in a fire.  In 2009 they rebuilt a state-of-the-art high capacity gin that gins an average of 70,000 bales per year.  We watched the trucks come in and [...]

We were welcomed by Tanya Foerster – a TALL XII alumnus.  You could see and hear her continued enthusiasm for the TALL program.  She served on the planning committee for the Lubbock session and what an amazing session it was!! Jaroy Moore followed with a comment that truly set the tone – “we are family”.  [...]