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01-14-2009, 09:38 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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Voluntary Harvesting - A socially conscious way of eliminating food waste
I subscribe to the newsletter from TrendCentral, they sent this article to me last month. I thought it would be of interest to many here, so here you go:
Trend Central - Article VOLUNTARY HARVESTING A socially conscious way of eliminating food waste Food swapping isn't the only way waste-minded consumers are dealing with excess edibles. With food prices at an all time high and concern regarding food waste on the rise - not only in restaurants and grocery stores (which freegans have been making use of for years), but also in home gardens and trees in public spaces - activists in warm climates are tapping into free alternative sources of food to provide healthy fruit for the needy. The United Food Bank in Mesa, Arizona has "citrus volunteers" pick citrus from homeowners' yards who agree to donate; volunteers at the North Berkeley Harvest pick fruit from people's yards and donate it to non-profit organizations (pictured above); Village Harvest in the Silicon Valley has a database of over 1,000 homeowners who donate their surplus fruit; and the LA-based "social activist" artist group Fallen Fruit goes door-to-door asking people if they can pick the unwanted fruit in their yards, harvests from trees and bushes on public land, and offers tours to show the public just how easy it is. Now that's food for thought!
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Re: Voluntary Harvesting - A socially conscious way of eliminating food waste
cool!!!
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