Entries from July 2009
All over the country, food banks are running low because of economic hard times. Meanwhile, tons of food goes uneaten. In fact, by some estimates, half of all the edibles we create go to waste. But some groups actually do something about it, collecting otherwise unwanted food and distributing it to the needy. Lately I’ve been [...]
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Tags: food banks·gleaning
Bread for the City is one of those organizations that normally works behind the scenes, not only feeding the poor but providing a variety of badly needed social services. The group also has a dynamite blog that lately has been dishing up some cogent–and very scary–analyses of how Mayor Adrian Fenty’s recessionary budget proposals, scheduled [...]
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Tags: District of Columbia·social services
Do you have room in your garden for a few extra vegetables? Or perhaps you are already growing more than you and your family can eat. Now there’s no excuse not to direct the nutritious extra food from your garden to people who can really use it. The Capitol Area Food Bank has started a [...]
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Tags: charities·sharing produce