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San Luis Obispo County, CA Non-Profits in Need of Fresh Produce

May 21, 2016 /

Are you a San Luis Obispo County gardener with an overabundance of fresh fruit or vegetables? These food banks and shelters are in desperate need of assistance. Please take some of your backyard bounty to these locations.

Bryan Brown at the Maxine Lewis Memorial Shelter says, “We could definitely use help as we have a very thin budget for our food. We will gladly accept food from gardeners if allowed an opportunity to visit the garden site. Meat has become very limited for us so this is an item we are interested in (assuming it goes through a local butcher).”

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Maxine Lewis Memorial Shelter

Kitchen Address:  230 Leeward Avenue, Pismo Beach (volunteers cook out of the Veterans Hall kitchen)

Please call or email at least one day in advance to arrange drop off. Best time to receive is between 11 am and 1 pm, but other arrangements can be made.  bbrown@capslo.org

Gardeners should make arrangements to let managers visit and assess the gardens or orchards first.

Items they would love to receive: ALL vegetables, especially potatoes, winter squash, corn, and all salad fixin’s.  Fruit–oranges, blueberries, melon, plums.

Tucson Non-Profits in Need of Garden Produce

October 16, 2015 /

Are you a Tucson gardener with an overabundance of fresh fruit or vegetables? These five food banks and shelters are in desperate need of assistance. Please take some of your backyard bounty to these locations.

Victor Hightower, the kitchen manager at Hospitality House, says, “We will gladly accept almost any food donations, as our needs are urgent and year round. Fresh produce, in particular, is rare and hard to come by, so any would be greatly appreciated!”

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Casa Maria

Kitchen Address:  352 East 25th Street, Tucson

8.30—11.30 am DAILY

casamariatucson.org   More information on how to donate and volunteer.

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Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

Kitchen Address:  2331 E. Adams St, Tucson

9 – Noon DAILY

http://grace-stpauls.org/

(520) 327-6857

Andrew Gardner, Pantry Team Leader at GSP, says, “Yes, we would take donations of fresh produce from gardeners.  Our level of need is on-going.  We’re open 5 or 6 days a week for three hours a day, and we serve approximately 80 households a week.  The best fruits and vegetables for us would be ones that won’t spoil within a few days.  Our demand for food that needs to be prepared varies as the number of homeless or precariously housed people fluctuates, and some days we serve people that don’t have any access to cooking facilities.  Given that, and that we have limited refrigerated storage space, if there is produce that won’t spoil quickly (e.g. citrus, squash, etc.) that would be best.”

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ICS Food Bank

2820 W. Ina Road, Tucson

(520) 297-6049

icstucson.org

9am -1pm, Mon-Sat.

Pickup for accumulated items available. Please call ahead.  More information about donations.

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Salvation Army Hospitality House

1002 N. Main Ave., Tucson

(520) 339-3479

salvationarmytucson.org

More info about Hospitality House

Tucson NFP

Tucson Neighborhood Food Pantry

1603 S Eastside Loop (22nd & Pantano area)

4-6 pm Tu/Thurs/Sat

TNFP.org  More ways that you can help

(520) 777-9629

 

How to Host a Foodcycle Event in Your Town

September 30, 2015 /

Would you like to host a Foodcycle Week or Event in your home town? It’s really very easy!

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Five Steps to Start Your Own Foodcycle Week
  1. Contact us and we’ll supply you with a four-color flyer that you can customize to include the name(s) of the non-profit(s) that you’d like to support.
  2. Prepare a list of your local food banks, soup kitchens and shelters. Search online and just cut-and-paste the search engine results into a word processing document.
  3. Call through the list and ask each non-profit the questions listed below.
  4. Now just customize the flyer to include the name, address, phone number and website of each non-profit. Share the flyer with your friends, neighbors, school parents, coworkers, and church.
  5. Share your plans on Facebook, Twitter and other social media!
Questions to Ask
  • Will you take donations of fresh produce from gardeners?
  • What is your level of need–occasional or urgent?
  • Do you have special needs at certain times of the year, like holidays?
  • Is there any particular type of vegetable or fruit you need?
  • Are there certain days and times that you are open to receive produce?
  • Would you like me to email you a flyer to share with your mailing list?
  • Who am I speaking with, and what’s your position?
Want to Go Big?

That’s really all there is to it, but if you want to really go big, here are some other ideas:

  • Ask vendors at your local farmer’s market to hand out printed flyers
  • Contact local garden clubs and ask them to email your flyer to their members (you can find local garden clubs on Facebook)
  • Ask your local garden centers and home supply stores to hand out printed flyers and share your flyer in their customer newsletters
  • Create a press release or write an article and send it to your local newspapers, radio stations and television anchors. If you don’t know how, contact me (mary@solid-communications.com) and I will send you a custom press release for free.

And please remember to take LOTS of photos! Share them on social media and send them to me. I’ll share them here on my blog and my social media!

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Email me at
mary@solid-communications.com

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