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  • From: "David Tannen" <david AT centerville.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>, "Margaret L Wilson" <booldawgs AT cavenet.com>
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  • Subject: [Market-farming] Donating to the ederly
  • Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:37:32 -0600

How does one go about donating fresh produce to the elderly or those in need. I was under the impression that food banks will not accept fresh produce.

David
Primm Springs, TN
In beautiful middle Tennessee

.-- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Meadows" <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
To: "Margaret L Wilson" <booldawgs AT cavenet.com>; "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] owning land


On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 18:04:13 -0800, you wrote:



I was at the little local market yesterday. A 4 ounce package of organic mesclun mix was over $3.60. I don't shop for much. I have 2 freezers full of meat, veggies and fruit and potatoes and other roots in storage, Prices seemed outrageous since last time I looked. The economy is in bad shape here and people are hurting. I saw an elderly lady with a list pricing items and putting them back. I was listening while standing in line. Most people were using charge cards to buy their groceries. I will donate extra produce to the elderly here next summer. Ironically, it is very rural here and almost everyone could have a small garden, a cage of rabbits and a couple laying hens. I guess they are forgotten skills.


This is true here as well.

Many of the elderly, of course, no longer have the physical
stamina to garden or even to care for hens or rabbits: they
are very frail and/or quite ill. They might remember how to
garden: but they can't actually do it anymore.

I'm just *beginning* to not have the physical ability to
garden myself (by virtue of illness, not of age). It is not
a good feeling. Not at all. I have to 'garden smart' to do
it at all.

It would be good if - in addition to donating produce to the
elderly - someone in each community taught people (who
wanted to learn) how to garden and helped the elderly and/or
ill establish and maintain gardens.

Pat
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