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gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
Mon May 13, 2013, 12:43 AM May 2013

forageing app

At first, it was just an idea. We wanted to make an app that invited users to share backyard fruit with neighbors and non-profits. Then we realized there are lots of other food “bounties” out there—healthy, free produce that is going to waste everyday. The fruits and vegetables that don’t sell at a farmer’s market. Food trucks’ leftover baguettes. The beets or cabbages that come in Community Supported Agriculture boxes and don’t get eaten. We wanted to create an app that delivered all that goodness to people who could use it, which is how we came up with our tagline: Uniting the Citizens of Leftover Nation.

http://www.foragecity.com/
Yes, there is an app for that.
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forageing app (Original Post) gejohnston May 2013 OP
A really good idea Curmudgeoness May 2013 #1
good question gejohnston May 2013 #2
Why are you questioning your smartphone decision? Curmudgeoness May 2013 #3
the lowest cell I have seen is gejohnston May 2013 #4

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
1. A really good idea
Mon May 13, 2013, 07:13 PM
May 2013

although I would not use it. I may be frugal, but I am not needy.....and that is something that I would prefer to leave for the needy.

But, would the needy have a cell phone with apps to use this? Even I am not willing to pay the money for a cell phone, with or without apps, and people with little money could not afford a cell phone. How is this going to work? Or is it just for the people who want to save money and avoid waste or good food?

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
2. good question
Mon May 13, 2013, 07:30 PM
May 2013

basic cell phones with pre pay are cheaper than landlines. Personally, I would belong to the latter group. As for smart phone vs "dumb phone", I'm questioning the wisdom of my jumping on the smartphone band wagon.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
3. Why are you questioning your smartphone decision?
Mon May 13, 2013, 07:38 PM
May 2013

Just curious, since I am a luddite.

I am not sure if any cell phone is as cheap as my landline though. Are they cheaper than $16 a month? Not that it matters, I refuse to get rid of my landline---ever. I don't need electricity to use it, and when I went through a prolonged period without power or water, the phone was the only thing that was normal in my life.....so I have a soft spot.

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
4. the lowest cell I have seen is
Mon May 13, 2013, 07:49 PM
May 2013

$35 a month.
The extra cost. I use the phone to make phone calls. I can wait to get home to check facebook and DU. The sight of teens and twenty somethings texting instead of interacting with the world around them kind of makes me sad.

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