{"id":18556,"date":"2016-08-31T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T07:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/?p=18556"},"modified":"2016-08-30T23:05:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T06:05:13","slug":"volunteering-food-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/volunteering-food-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteering with Food Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18561\" src=\"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_8651-1200x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Food Forward | Garlic, My Soul\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_8651-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_8651-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend I volunteered with a great organization I want y&#8217;all to check out (or find a similar\u00a0one near you! So here&#8217;s how it started. As you may or may not know, I have an orange and a lemon tree in my backyard (the best.thing.ever!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18558\" src=\"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JenniePortraits-49-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Jennie Palluzzi | Garlic, My Soul\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JenniePortraits-49-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JenniePortraits-49.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18557\" src=\"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JenniePortraits-84-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Jennie Palluzzi | Garlic, My Soul\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JenniePortraits-84-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/JenniePortraits-84.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Above two photographs by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marycostaphotography.com\/\">Mary Costa Photography<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, does it get better than that? I think not. Anyways, so the fruit trees bloom a lot and produce fruit nearly year round. This means I have an overabundance of fruit in my backyard for much of the year. I&#8217;ve pawned lemons and oranges off on friends but it&#8217;s not always enough to keep up with the supply, and although the animals eat them (birds I tell myself, surely not rats!) I can&#8217;t help but think they&#8217;d be put to better use if eaten by people. So I did a little research and came across this article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/gramfeed.com\">LA Times<\/a>. From the article, published in April of last year, &#8220;Food Foward&#8230;has already collected and distributed <strong>8.6 million pounds<\/strong> of fresh produce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From their site:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We convene at private properties, public spaces, and farmers and wholesale markets to recover excess fruits and vegetables, donating 100% to local direct-service agencies who feed our community\u2019s most vulnerable.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So I thought, great! Donation time! But I wanted to see if there was more I could do. So I signed up to volunteer. You guys, it&#8217;s so stupid easy I can&#8217;t believe I hadn&#8217;t done it sooner. You go to a farmers market (after signing up for a &#8220;glean&#8221; as they&#8217;re called online). You meet with the glean leader, grab aprons, and hand out boxes to vendors that have produce\u00a0to donate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18559\" src=\"http:\/\/garlicmysoul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_8644-900x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Farmers Market | Garlic, My Soul\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You wait about 20 minutes (and maybe do some shopping a la above), then go pick up the boxes and someone from a vendor partner picks up the boxes. It&#8217;s about an hour and a half, total. You put together some boxes, keep track of the weight of all the produce (so the vendors can get the tax deduction they deserve!) then you hand it off.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. I&#8217;m sure for different markets there are different protocols, but at the Burbank market it was super easy and the vendors already have a relationship with Food Forward. Easy peasy.<\/p>\n<p>There are a <a href=\"https:\/\/foodforward.org\/get-involved\/volunteers\/\">ton of ways to volunteer<\/a>\u00a0with Food Forward, and I encourage you to check them all out. I will be signing up again in the near future to help out in this easiest of ways; and I see those lemons &amp; oranges coming in, and can&#8217;t wait to glean the trees and donate those, too. Here we come, harvest season!<\/p>\n<p>Do you guys volunteer for any causes? Any food related ones that deserve highlighting? Tell me about them in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I volunteered with a great organization I want y&#8217;all to check out (or find a similar\u00a0one near you! So here&#8217;s how it started. 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