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Well it was another awesome possum week in the reclaimed food department. We were able to pick up 4 boxes for fruits and vegetables from Mr. Produce Guy. All of which was headed for the dumpster. Spotted bananas, heck yeah I’ll take those. I can turn them in to Banana Bread, Banana Fudgesicles, Banana Cake, Read More >>
It still blows my mind that all of this food I collect every week for my chickens and my family would otherwise be headed for the dumpster. We’ve been picking up free “scraps” from Mr. Produce Guy for over a year now and week after week I am shocked at what’s headed for the trash. Read More >>
This week we picked up four boxes of discard fruits and vegetables from Mr. Produce Guy. How do you eat your banana’s? Do you prefer them green? Totally yellow, or with a few spots? My grandfather would wait until a banana was practically black before he ate it. As a kid I thought it was Read More >>
Last week I hit the motherload of free produce. It was nuts! You can definitely tell when things start to pick up in the produce section and people start to buy more fruit. Although the free produce boxes from Mr. Produce Guy were overflowing again this week, the pickings were kind of slim when compared Read More >>
Have you ever wanted to go foraging for food but didn’t know where to start? Now, there is a map that shows you all of the places around the world that you can score free food. NPR featured an article recently that told about how two committed foragers created a map of the world that Read More >>
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