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supernova

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5. It's called Farmers Foodshare

Reply to Skidmore (Original post)

Tue May 21, 2013, 08:42 AM

May 2013

They have a booth at the market and people can make donations of cash, market vendors can donate food or extra that they didn't sell that day. The FFS program also near the end of the market takes the cash on hand and buys fresh local food from vendors and distributes it to those in need.

I sell a kind of baked good, my own creation. Sometimes I donate, sometimes the program buys from me.

Everybody wins!

http://www.farmerfoodshare.org/

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On feeding the poor...a local area's solution to stocking the food pantry. [View all] Skidmore May 2013 OP

Great idea.. Gotta make it visible and easy...and routine SoCalDem May 2013 #1

Thank you. K&R n/t OneGrassRoot May 2013 #2

Our local Krogers store does a neat thing. They have a barrel set up and next to it they southernyankeebelle May 2013 #3

We had a store in another town that did something similar. Skidmore May 2013 #4

We have a farmers market in our rural town. I know that the senior center has southernyankeebelle May 2013 #9

It's called Farmers Foodshare supernova May 2013 #5

It's good to see other places are doing this. Skidmore May 2013 #6

The social benefits of that must be astounding. socialsecurityisAAA May 2013 #7

From the garden!! bleedinglib May 2013 #8

that's a great idea. here's another one. The Food bank owns an organic farm cali May 2013 #10