Food news from DUWhy is this posted every week?Needs your immediate attention ...The people at the http://friendsofpineridgereservation.org/projects/">Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota are asking for donations. Please check out their link to see how you can help.
The Tundra Drums begins their
summer food bank drive. Please click on the link and help out in any way you can. Here is their
shopping list for donations.
If you know of any other community that needs help, please post in reply and it will be added to next week's food bank thread.
Some donation ideas*
donate money DUer peace13 reminds us that if a food bank accepts money, they can get food in bulk. Also consider donating
office supplies to the organization that runs the food bank (old computers, phones, fax machines, paper, etc)
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DUer blaze signed up to have a donation made automatically every month, find out if your local food bank accepts them too
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"adopt" a food bank item and replenish it whenever it runs low (posted by
DUer girl gone mad)
* donate
birthday or holiday "kits" (
DUer Rabrrrrrr)
* donate to
Second Harvest http://www.feedingamerica.org/?show_nce=1*
Find and donate "free after rebate" items offered by many stores
http://www.salescircular.com/*
DUer peacebird found her household with a few extra dollars every month after paying off a car note, so now they donate that amount to food bank every month. (Way to go peacebird!)
* support
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) http://www.chiron-communications.com/farms.html (see more below)
Support your local cooperative extension service* From the extension links in this section, donate all the items to complete one of the recipes (print out and donate copies of the recipe, too!)
* Donate recipe books (or other publications on nutrition) from your local cooperative extension service (
Most states cooperative extensions services have all kinds of things available)
More information about the
Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (
Main website and
Food, Nutrition and Health links)
The Cooperative Extension System is a nationwide, non-credit educational network. Each U.S. state and territory has a state office at its land-grant university and a network of local or regional offices. These offices are staffed by one or more experts who provide useful, practical, and research-based information to agricultural producers, small business owners, youth, consumers, and others in rural areas and communities of all sizes.
CSREES is the federal partner in the Cooperative Extension System. It provides federal funding to the system and, through program leadership, helps the system identify and address current issues and problems. Food bank checklist* Print out the flier below and make copies for your friends, family or co-workers to take with you when you go grocery shopping.
* surreptitiously leave copies at the grocery store!
(You don't have to pick up everything on the list, just remember to pick up something.)
If you're unable to donate at this time, but may need assistance yourself, please check out these ideas from your fellow DUers ...Please support candidates and policies that guarantee livable wages.