I have grapes go to waste every year, I can't pick 'em and it seems
that few want to pick them. Seedless Canadice, Himrod, a variety I
don't know the name of but are seedless and WONDERFUL. I started them
from a friend's vine. It was seeded in their yard, always had been,
seedless in mine (except for those years where all the seedless
varieties have pulpy seeds due to growing conditions), Mars and Venus
deep red and black seedless. Wonderful grapes.

People want you to bring them to their doors at times.

This is not to say that is wouldn't be a good thing to grow a row or
more for the homeless and hungry. Soup kitchens if nothing else would
welcome fresh produce to make soup with, but food banks usually are
not set up to store or distribute fresh foods unless they have a brisk
business every day.

I think there are some church groups here in town who would manage to
get overripe bananas donated as I'd seen the stuff they were giving
out on a couple occasions when I'd driven friends out to get things.
They were ready for banana bread.

Years ago they used to have a commodity food program and they gave out
some things that were better than you could buy.. huge pitted prunes
and nice raisins, powdered eggs.. while not something you'd want to
eat as scrambled eggs were great to make baking mixes with.

We had, don't know if they still are in operation, Gleaners who went
out into the fields after mechanical harvesters had cleaned out what
they could from the fields, and they would get all the produce that
the machinery had missed and bring it in for the food banks and soup
kitchens. I'll have to try to find them this year and see if they
want anything that might grow after some are pruned to correct what
someone had done with them... sheared them like a hedge! LOL

Janice

On 04 Feb 2004 11:51:30 GMT, (Bpyboy) wrote:

I heard something on the radio about a group called "Plant a Row" (i think?)
where gardeners plant extra stuff, then donate the extras to charity. Anyone
here involved with such a group?

It seems to me, that donating some tomatoes or potatoes will not ever be able
to get corrupted, like SO MUCH of cash donations do (tied up in administrative
BS, or just lifted outright).

I'm thinking of putting in an additional row and looking for some local drop
points for the veggies. seems like a good idea to me--i mean, my garden always
produces way more than i can use anyways!