Food For Thought


If your extra garden produce is tossed into a garbage dump, it produces methane which is a global warming gas that has 20 times the impact of carbon dioxide.

If you can not share your extra crops with a pantry, compost it instead of trashing it.


Helpful Links - Other Resources



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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.

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

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

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


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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