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davis_squareHello,
Can anybody suggest a food bank or a soup kitchen to donate our farm share -- somewhere close to Porter or Davis sqr? We will be gone for two weeks and will have 2 shares that we would love not to go to waste.
Thanks!
UPDATE: Thank you to everybody who responded. A friend of ours who we split our large share with picked the share up and said she would deal with it.
Can anybody suggest a food bank or a soup kitchen to donate our farm share -- somewhere close to Porter or Davis sqr? We will be gone for two weeks and will have 2 shares that we would love not to go to waste.
Thanks!
UPDATE: Thank you to everybody who responded. A friend of ours who we split our large share with picked the share up and said she would deal with it.
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Date: 2010-02-08 02:42 pm (UTC)[Edited to fix typos.]
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Date: 2010-02-08 03:29 pm (UTC)This is not my experience. Pantries ask for shelf-stable goods because not all of them have refrigeration, because some are only open once or twice a month, and because people will drop things on the pantry's doorstep without notice and sometimes the food will sit there for a day or so before someone can put it away.
I don't know where you saw produce getting thrown away, but at the pantries I have run and/or volunteered at, that only happens in the height of summer.
I echo the recommendation to check with the farm to see if they already work with Food For Free, Boston-Area Gleaners, or perhaps with a pantry directly. If they don't, you can drop the food at 11 Inman St., where it will go either to the CEOC pantry, or via Food For Free, to one of sixty other food programs.
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Date: 2010-02-08 03:43 pm (UTC)When I worked with Food Not Bombs, we were always offered far more food than we could use, because everyone always had a ton of extra perishables. Arisia was given a huge amount of food for similar reasons. And of course there's taking a peek into most any supermarket dumpster, though it may be that they don't want to work with food banks, I don't know.
I have never been of the impression that people here are hungry because there isn't actually enough food around. Is that not the case?
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Date: 2010-02-08 04:32 pm (UTC)Hunger has as much to do with the cost of housing and healthcare as it does with the availability of food.
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Date: 2010-02-08 07:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-08 10:30 pm (UTC)I'm in Porter and I'd be incredibly grateful to do the pickup, if you're going to donate it anyway.
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Date: 2010-02-11 04:25 am (UTC)i just finished rolling $50 in pennies.