[NAFEX] Fruit to give away
Spidra Webster
spidra at speakeasy.net
Sat Sep 23 12:38:35 EDT 2006
On Sep 23, 2006, at 6:43 AM, Jim Fruth wrote:
> I didn't
> have time to pick them, so I made up a sign saying "FREE, pick your own
> raspberries." The director told me that the sign probably wouldn't do
> any
> good. His clients desperately want raspberries but only if I pick and
> bring
> them. Just in case, we hung the sign anyway and we hung it where it
> could
> not be missed. The director was right. Nobody came. The berries
> ripened
> and fell on the ground with no one to pick them.
>
Wow.
In the Bay Area here, there's an organization that has volunteers that
pick fruit for delivery to the poor, disabled, etc.
http://villageharvest.org/
Unless the fruit doesn't taste good, seeing fruit rotting on the ground
is a sad sad sight.
Spidra Webster
http://www.myspace.com/meganlynch
http://www.spidra.com
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