Carol VandenEngel and Glenn Green are paddling across Canada to help you eat your vegetables.

The pair are promoting the food security charity Loving Spoonful by canoeing from Vancouver to their hometown of Kingston, Ont. Their journey included a pit stop in Nelson earlier this week.

Green said Loving Spoonful, which is also based in Kingston, teaches how to grow and harvest food as well as prepare meals.

91裸聊视频淚n Kingston and that area of Ontario, people don91裸聊视频檛 have access to healthy, fresh food,91裸聊视频� he said. 91裸聊视频淲hether it be mobility issues or it91裸聊视频檚 an illness that they have or lack of skills that aren91裸聊视频檛 present. Everyone should have the right to eat healthy food. It is expensive to eat healthy food, but by growing food, learning how to harvest the food and preparing meals from it, that91裸聊视频檚 a way to curb that.91裸聊视频�

Last year they paddled the first leg from Ottawa to Sydney, N.S., and started this year91裸聊视频檚 trip on May 5 with the hope they91裸聊视频檒l be done by October.

Their route sticks close to the Canada-U.S. border until Alberta where they begin moving north. Then in Manitoba they turn south once more on a route that eventually takes them across Lake Superior toward Ottawa and Kingston.

VandenEngel said they have been canoeing recreationally for 15-to-20 years, and that it made sense to get back in the water for what will be a journey of 8,515 kilometres.

91裸聊视频淲e really have a passion for the outdoors,91裸聊视频� said VandenEngel. 91裸聊视频淲e91裸聊视频檝e travelled abroad quite a bit and thought let91裸聊视频檚 see our own beautiful country and what better way from the canoe. We91裸聊视频檝e been canoeing and seeing the water ways and it91裸聊视频檚 spectacular.91裸聊视频�

To follow VandenEngel and Green91裸聊视频檚 journey or make a donation to Loving Spoonful, visit .

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