Annual Watermelon Crawl held in North Little Rock Saturday

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – It was time again Saturday morning for the annual Watermelon Crawl in North Little Rock.

Around 100 volunteers gathered watermelons for the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance this weekend.

The melons were picked up at the five-acre watermelon field cultivated by the hunger relief alliance at Stone Links Park.

From there they'll be distributed through the Arkansas Foodbank.

"The volunteers will harvest them, and put them in the boxes, we take the boxes and we will actually deliver them to the Arkansas Food Bank from the field, and they will be distributed out starting Monday morning,” Brandon Chapman, Food sourcing and logistics manager for Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance stated.

Around 60,000 pounds of watermelons were picked during the event.

The alliance hosted its first watermelon crawl in 2011. Since 2008 it estimates more than 13-million pounds of food has been saved through similar efforts.