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A Somber Tome to Spring
It’s been an eventful week. Spring is here. All my pet projects are starting their transplants. 4 Seasons City Farm has gotten a good start on setting up their gardens, Bella Cafe has their first salad pots ready for distribution to their host food pantry and Food not Bombs had their first seed starting party. Good things to come from all. This weeks research included looking into the urban chicken movement and the lack of local organic chicken feed. I even read a blog on how to raise my own grubs as a necessary protein component of chicken feed. Soy has been incorporated into most mixes but isn’t the most preferred protein, just the cheapest. I even watched a video about slaughtering … Read entire article »
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Food Pantry Research
By Karen G. Thank you for the opportunity to address an issue that is very near and dear to my heart. That is the need to talk about and make changes in the availability of fresh vegetables. I would like to enlist the help of churches, non-profits and even individual gardeners to grow locally and donate it to pantries. The following information and ideas are from my research into why and how food could be improved for everyone. The need for fresh and healthy produce is vast and unending. Fresh locally grown pesticide free food would solve many problems our society is facing. Health problems such as heart disease, colon cancer and obesity could be prevented.(over 30% according to health experts. 50% was quoted by a Surgeon General at a hearing according … Read entire article »
Filed under: Farmer's Markets, Food Pantries, Local Food Processing, New Farmers
Food Pantry Ideas
I have an idea on how to help food pantries get more local and fresh produce during the season. There are several farmer’s markets around the city, all with vendors that bring alot of produce during the summer season. Could an organization organize and train volunteers to make the rounds at these markets and talk to the farmers about contributing their unsold produce at the end of each market day to local food pantries? There would need to be a few or more volunteers to make the contacts. The volunteer would arrange to pickup the produce at the end of market day or at a set location that same day and take it to the food pantry. Volunteers could not be at all the markets right at closing time, so arrangements could … Read entire article »
Filed under: Food Pantries
