A recent story in The Richmond Review details the recent difficulties at The Richmond Fruit Tree Sharing Project, a scheme to grow and share organic produce with the people suffering from poverty. Seems like a pretty good cause to me. This season for the first time they are selling CSA shares (community supported agriculture) to the general public in order to raise funds. A three hundred dollar investment yields a profit of twelve weeks worth of organic produce this summer. Or to put it another way, for the price of three small apples and a head of skanky California romaine at Whole Foods you can get a box of local produce. And help a good cause. And eat local and organic all summer. For the Win. That old trope and motivational speaker favourite about the Mandarin symbols for crisis and opportunity being the same (which sino-linguists say is nonsense, btw.) certainly holds true in this instance. Their crisis is your opportunity.
See website for details, only five shares are left at the moment.
~KT
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Thanks, KT, for mentioning this. The Sharing Farm is an awesome project. Last year, about 20,000 lbs of vegetables, fruit and berries were distributed through the Richmond Foodbank, and community meal programs such as mine at Gilmore Park Church.
Without the help of the Sharing Farm and Richmond Fruittree Sharing Project, a lot of families would not have access to fresh vegetables; not to mention local and organic. The Farm employs 3 summer students, and some contract staff. But the bulk of the work is done by volunteers of all stripes. I’m on the Board now, and am really happy to be involved with the project.
Folks, please help out, if you can :)