“Did you know that as much as 30 percent of all produce grown on farms is plowed under because it doesn’t look good enough to be sold in supermarkets? That is true. But Marin Organic is working to change all that by harvesting the rejected crops to provide local schools with healthier lunches. It’s free…and they say you could do it too. The national TV show Eco Company tells the whole story in this report. For more stories like this [...]
“Phat Beets Produce is a food justice collective. The collective was started in North Oakland in 2007 as a guerrilla produce stand in a North Oakland park. We now support two certified, clinic based farmers’ markets, one youth led school farm stand and community nutrition hub, and a youth market garden in partnership with a local hospital obesity prevention program. As a collective, we strive to support social businesses and small farmers and farmers of color.” http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/ Video from commonseed
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