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Food For Thought
An estimated 100 billion pounds of food, enough to totally eliminate hunger, is thrown away annually in the United States.
It does not have to be this way - and you can help.
Your support of the AmpleHarvest.org Campaign helps many more food pantries receive fresh produce - improving community health while also helping the environment.
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Helpful Links - Other Resources
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White House AmpleHarvest.org highlighted on the White House web site. America's Grow a Row helps farms and community gardens get food to food banks and pantries Dinner Garden provides seeds, gardening supplies, and gardening advice free of charge to all people in the USA. We assist those in need in establishing food security for their families. Our goal is for people to plant home, neighborhood, and container gardens so they can use the vegetables they grow for food and income. Family to Family A program creating a bridge between suburban communities with enough to share and some of our country's most impoverished areas Victory Garden Project Help someone pay it forward. Each Victory Garden creates its own chain of events, because after one growing season, each family that receives a "Victory Garden" will "pay it forward" ...mentor another family by teaching them the planting and farming skills they have learned. That second family will receive the same Victory Garden Kit from a second donor family that contains the same items and so on." Feeding America is the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger Produce for Better Health Foundation Produce for Better Health Foundation offers the Fruits & Veggies - More Matters health initiative. In simple, user-friendly ways, the Fruits & Veggies - More Matters health initiative offers expert cooking advice, nutrition information and shopping tips. Great information for children. Grow a Row (the Canadian equivalent to AmpleHarvest.org) builds on the long-standing tradition of gardeners loving to share their harvest with others. It is a people-helping-people program to assist in feeding the hungry in their own communities National Gardening Association offers one of the Web's largest and most respected array of gardening content for backyard gardeners including "how to" information and free newsletters Gardener's Supply Company is an employee owned company that "is in business to spread the joys and rewards of gardening, because gardening nourishes the body,elevates the spirit, builds community and makes the world a better place." Sustainable West Milford (parent organization of AmpleHarvest.org) enables community members to transform West Milford [NJ] and it's regional neighbors into an economically vibrant, environmentally friendly, and sustainable community through their personal participation and leadership US Department of Agriculture Consumer Corner Hunger and Food Aid Information Wasted Food is a blog by author Jonathan Bloom that takes an in-depth look at food loss in America EPA Food Donation: Feed People-Not Landfills State Cooperative Extension Web Sites The Cooperative Extension sites have a wealth of information for any backyard gardener. Once you go to the site (each one if very different from the others) look for a link for "homes and gardens", "landscape", "consumer horticulture", etc. to find information on improving your backyard garden. Neighboring state sites may offer information your own state's site lacks. |
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