Many of you have been asking how you can donate extra food that you are not able to use. I have been thinking more about this and one of the goals of the garden is to increase local food security through community gardening/growing our own food. If this is to be achieved, it is important to learn (or re-learn) how to also preserve food for months when we are not able to grow. I understand such things as lettuce and such are not easily preserved but much of the other greens (i.d. spinach, chard, chinese greens, etc.), root vegetables, peas, beans, tomatoes, squash, etc., are.
We are planning a workshop that will provide information on how to preserve the food that you grow. I will send out info on when that workshop will be held soon. Unfortunately the workshop won't be a 'demo' as we don't have a space for it, but there will be a lot of information that will be useful to you in helping you to put some food away for winter.
I am still looking at a system for gardeners to donate unused food to local food charities. The idea of the Thursda evening pick up won't work, so I'm looking into something else. I'll keep you all posted.
More soon!
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