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bleedinglib

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8. From the garden!!

Reply to Skidmore (Original post)

Tue May 21, 2013, 10:15 AM

May 2013

I work with a local help organization. We have a food pantry, Womens shelter, low income housing & rent assistance.
I'm planting extra veggies this year to help provide fresh healthy foods for the needy. Not only is this good physical therapy, It's fun
& does help our pantry!!

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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