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kentauros

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15. Community gardens and farms are great!

Reply to BrotherIvan (Reply #13)

Tue May 26, 2015, 06:33 PM

May 2015

I'm not part of one, but will tell anyone I meet about them and how they work.

I recently discovered a community farm not far from here. Though that particular one is run by a church, it still produces a lot of food, grown by refugees to give them a means of making a living, as I understand the Plant-It-Forward group's mission

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The Man Behind France's New Food Waste Law Wants to Make it Global [View all] LongTomH May 2015 OP

A damned good idea. nt hifiguy May 2015 #1

We all need to be thinking like this BrotherIvan May 2015 #2

I "think" one reason this isn't done in the US kentauros May 2015 #12

That is true, but there can be workarounds BrotherIvan May 2015 #13

Community gardens and farms are great! kentauros May 2015 #15

Cities need to change their laws re lawns and vegetable gardening BrotherIvan May 2015 #16

I love the "guerilla gardening" concept, too. kentauros May 2015 #17

There's so much change we can make ourselves BrotherIvan May 2015 #18

Gardening is therapeutic for so many. kentauros May 2015 #19

Absolutely BrotherIvan May 2015 #20

That's beautiful! kentauros May 2015 #21

To a person who likes to eat and to cook as much as I do BrotherIvan May 2015 #22

k&r nt bananas May 2015 #3

About a month ago MSNBC had a program on food waste and once in a while since then there have jwirr May 2015 #4

California could do this as a ballot initiative KamaAina May 2015 #5

The way to introduce laws like this in the US would be city by city...... LongTomH May 2015 #6

Good point BrotherIvan May 2015 #14

The defeat of the GMO labeling, still makes my blood boil. SoapBox May 2015 #7

I'm cool with that. NaturalHigh May 2015 #8

Under the French law, food that is truly unfit for human consumption would be composted....... LongTomH May 2015 #11

Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! Enthusiast May 2015 #9

K & R !!!! Thespian2 May 2015 #10