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Join the Fight Against #FoodInsecurity! Food insecurity is a pressing issue that affects many in our community year-round. Here’s how you can help!
Donate to Local Pantries:
Leonia Scout Troops are collecting donations for the Leonia Food Pantry on Saturday, April 5 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 pm at American Legion Post #1, 399 Broad Avenue, Leonia, NJ, U.S.A. Bring your donations in bags or boxes.
The Houston Food Bank and Plant it Forward, a nonprofit farming organization, pitched the idea of exempting urban farms from water fees to the Houston City Council’s resilience committee on Thursday.
Become a monthly donor today at raresites.org/donate
Going to be a lot of hungry people': Food banks, farmers across US decry federal cuts
#Trumpunfittoserve #fafo2025
#Trumpeconomycrash #FoodInsecurity https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/kidskind/2025/03/31/cuts-to-u-s-department-of-agriculture-programs-that-provide-food-for-schools-and-food-banks-have-com/82742839007/
Perhaps you should be renamed “Community InDignity.”
Yet another slap in the face for this #disabled #queer #ActuallyAutistic #poor person who is doing everything they can, yet regularly refused assistance.
In this case offered help, but then snatched away at the last second.
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Anything helps!!! Even just $5!!!As climate chaos increases around the world, Michelle Week, a farmer outside of Portland Oregon is drawing on her Sinixt indigenous knowledge to adapt her farm to the changing seasons. By practicing techniques like seed saving and dry farming, Michelle is combating the increasing food security crisis while continuing to provide fresh food to her local community.
#Food #FoodInsecurity #Native #Indigenous
https://youtu.be/B-yscXAxSMs
my mother is getting me later todayWFP cuts food rations as new refugee arrivals test its Burundi operations http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJkf8W #WFP #Burundi #Refugees #HumanitarianAid #FoodInsecurity
Consider planting an extra row for the hungry in your garden this spring
If you’re going to plant fruits, vegetables or herbs this spring, why not grow some extra for your local soup kitchen or pantry?
By JESSICA DAMIANO, March 18, 2025
"If you’re gearing up to plant fruits, vegetables or herbs this spring, why not grow some extra to donate to your local #SoupKitchen or #FoodPantry?
"The national #PlantARowForTheHungry campaign, launched in 1995, has been encouraging home and community gardeners to do just that every year to help feed neighbors in need of fresh food.
"The program was spearheaded in 1995 by Anchorage Daily News garden columnist Jeff Lowenfels, who wrote a column encouraging his readers to plant extra crops and donate their harvests.
"After seeing the impact that his column had on local food donations, Lowenfels partnered with GardenComm International, then known as Garden Writers of America, to enlist garden columnists all over the country to promote the cause in their own communities. Since then, more than 20 million pounds of produce, providing more than 80 million meals, have been donated through the campaign by home gardeners.
"'All of this has been achieved without government subsidy or bureaucratic red tape — just people helping people,' according to organizers on the campaign’s website. And there’s no big advertising campaign, either — just garden columnists and their readers spreading the word."
Read more:
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/03/18/gardening-for-the-hungry/
#BuildingCommunity #FoodInsecurity #FoodSecurity #SolarPunkSunday #CommunityGardens
#LovelandCO - Still a green thumb: Loveland high schooler keeps up community garden started when she was 10-years-old
Story by Austin Fleskes, March 22, 2025
"Lauren Dietz was only 10 years old when she signed up for a Thompson School District contest to make an impact in her community. When the fifth grader at New Vision Charter School won, she used the money for a community garden to try and cut down on food insecurity in Loveland.
"That garden is still operating today, and the 15-year-old Mountain View High School freshman has no intention of stepping away from it.
"'I wouldn’t want to pass this off to anybody else,' she said. 'This is a passion project that I love doing and I want to keep doing it.'
"Lauren’s Community Garden offers 10 metal planting plots at the Loveland Youth Gardeners’ farm in east Loveland where residents can plant and grow their own food. Throughout the season, they are given the chance to work with other gardeners and and even get advice from LYG master gardeners to learn more about the ins and outs of growing.
"The free opportunity asks only that the gardeners be able to tend their space at least 30 minutes every other day and volunteer some of their time with the #YouthGardeners.
"Lauren won the Thompson Kids Can Change the World contest in 2021, receiving $250 with the goal of making a positive difference in her community. She said she looked to set up the community garden because she saw the impact of #FoodInsecurity on her community during the pandemic, explaining as she stood near the 10 metal planting plots at the Loveland Youth Gardeners’ farm in east Loveland. She said she saw the contest as an outlet to address that.
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"Residents looking to apply to be part of the community garden this year can do so online at lovelandyouthgardeners.org. The growing season runs from May through October and those looking to apply must do so by May 1."
Full article:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/still-a-green-thumb-loveland-high-schooler-keeps-up-community-garden-started-when-she-was-10-years-old/ar-AA1BqkCl
#BuildingCommunity #CommunityGardens #FoodSecurity #SolarPunkSunday #Colorado
Salt Lake Salvation Army offers ‘choice-model’ food pantry to residents in need https://www.diningandcooking.com/1969298/salt-lake-salvation-army-offers-choice-model-food-pantry-to-residents-in-need/ #ChoiceModel #community #food #FoodInsecurity #FoodPantry #groceries #inflation #SalvationArmy #support
