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The AmpleHarvest.org Campaign is a national effort utilizing the Internet that enables 40+ million Americans who grow food in home gardens to easily donate their excess harvest to registered local food pantries spread across all 50 states.
Why We Do It
One out of six Americans needs food assistance, but can't get fresh produce from the local food pantry, while, millions of American homeowners grow more food in their backyard gardens than they can possibly use.
It Doesn't Have to Be This Way!
AmpleHarvest.org envisions an America where millions of gardeners eliminate malnutrition and hunger in their own community using only their backyard gardens.
Hunger and the Environment
Reduce the waste stream, methane emissions and lower a food pantries carbon food print... while fighting hunger too!
AmpleHarvest.org improves the health of the planet... and the people on on it.
You might be deeply concerned about the environment - especially the waste stream and global warming.
Or you might be very concerned about hunger in America.
Or both might be equally important to you.
Wouldn't it be great if working to solve one also helped to solve the other?
Read on.
While one out of every six Americans do not have enough food to feed their families, more than 40 million American backyard gardeners grow food in home gardens, often more than they can use, preserve to give to friends.
Some let the excess rot in the garden, some compost it and some simply throw it in the trash. This waste is bad for the health of America and it's bad for the health of the planet.
The EPA now considers wasted food a major environmental problem.
Excess produce thrown into the garbage not only adds to our waste stream problems, it also releases methane into the atmosphere ... a global warming gas with twenty times the impact of CO2.
The AmpleHarvest.org Campaign is a nationwide campaign that educates, encourages and enables America's gardeners with extra produce to find a local food pantry eager for their excess harvest. The donated bounty not only helps to diminish hunger in the community, it also reduces the waste stream, the carbon footprint of the food distributed by the pantry as well as methane emissions from trash dumps.
How often do you come across a solution for two separate problems?
Please encourage your friends and family across America to do the same as you have.
Every food pantry registered on AmpleHarvest.org brings us one step closer to improving the environment, and oh yea.... diminishing hunger in America too.
More than 40 million gardeners across America grow fruit, vegetables, herbs and nuts in backyard, terrace, kitchen and community gardens. Some even have orchards or small farms. Many end up growing more than they can use, preserve or give to friends.
At the same time, tens of millions of Americans struggling to feed their families can't get fresh produce from the local food pantry.
It doesn't have to be this way.
If you are growing more food than you can use, AmpleHarvest.org can help you find a local food pantry eager to accept it.
Join the millions of gardeners across the country using AmpleHarvest.org to share their bounty with their neighbors in need by clicking here.
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