I received a very interesting link to a CNN story from one of my listservs this morning. Its about the Santa Barbara County Food Bank and the ways that local businesses, individuals, and farmers are helping by donating food and fresh produce to the food bank. They also mention what I have mentioned here before, the increased demand for food from those who normally would not seek it from local food banks.
I have been so busy that my plans to formalize The Giving Gardeners seem to have been put on hold, but after viewing this video, it's rejuvenated me again to get going!
The story talks about the thousands of pounds that local farmers donate each year and also mentioned a program called Backyard Bounty, where home gardeners with extra produce and fruit can donate. So, its definitely a model that's been done and I will be exploring how they do it.
It also made me realize that even though we don't have the number of local farmers that they do up in Santa Barbara County, we do have plenty of backyard growers and I just need to work on getting them involved.
Check out the story for yourself, it's about 5 minutes long: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/06/09/gutierrez.food.costs.cnn?iref=videosearch
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