Market Farming

[Brooke <bbrooke61 AT yahoo.com>]

What a great idea...I would imagine one could go to an assisted living environment or a nursing home or a retirement village to donate fresh produce. That's where I would start. As for teaching elderly to garden and maintain, doesn't the Master Gardeners program do that? They should, if they don't. That's another great idea. Imagine if there were a program to teach the poor how to garden and can and store foods...just imagine what that would do to someone's self esteem to be able to provide through a little sweat and dirt. I just found out the other day that one can buy produce seeds with their food stamps. Imagine if that were a stipulation, that they must use a certain amount to buy seed as well as take a few classes on how to be self sufficient....I know, I know...in a perfect world, and that we ain't got. Darn.

Brooke

David Tannen <david AT centerville.net> wrote:

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"
To: "Margaret L Wilson" ; "Market Farming"

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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