http://www.AmpleHarvest.org
Helps connect gardeners with food pantries around the country who can use extra produce. Very cool!
Showing posts with label beth day memorial food pantry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beth day memorial food pantry. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Promoting the Food Pantry Garden
So during the Easter Egg Hunt, I was passing out little packs of bean seeds to children to promote our food pantry garden. Hopefully some folks will grow extra and donate it to our food pantry!
John got us a couple loads of compost and we are ready to plant the raised beds. We hope to till up the ground around them for more planting in the ground as we don't have enough materials for more beds yet.
The children's church may come help us plant beans one Sunday, so they can learn about gardening at the church too. I hope to get John to make us a compost tumbler for the church also, so we can compost our vegetable scraps and green clippings there too. Very excited about the new area by the retention pond, it looks like it gets a good amount of sunlight!
If you would like to contribute a tomato plant or some time watering the garden, let me know!
Shelly
John got us a couple loads of compost and we are ready to plant the raised beds. We hope to till up the ground around them for more planting in the ground as we don't have enough materials for more beds yet.
The children's church may come help us plant beans one Sunday, so they can learn about gardening at the church too. I hope to get John to make us a compost tumbler for the church also, so we can compost our vegetable scraps and green clippings there too. Very excited about the new area by the retention pond, it looks like it gets a good amount of sunlight!
If you would like to contribute a tomato plant or some time watering the garden, let me know!
Shelly
Thursday, February 12, 2009
How to feed a million people
This is amazing! I can't get these pictures to load but if you see the web link you will see photos of this.
See this article about a guy in Naples FL who puts together packets of rice, protein and flavoring to make nutritious meals for $.10 a serving -- more than 3.5 million as of this last December -- and that's in just 9 months!
http://www.naples-daily-news.com/news/2008/mar/09/rotary-club-naples-distributes-its-millionth-rice-/
This program is through the group Steve Popper started, Kids Against Hunger -- http://kidsagainsthungerofswfl.org/Contact_Us.php
Want to do this in your town? contact them at: info@kidsagainsthungerofswfl.org
Churches, youth groups, community groups help do this in Naples -- why not here?
What is a packaging event?
A packaging event is a community-involved project. During the Event, participants will be trained and supervised in how to package the food. Training will take about ten minutes, the rest of the time will be spent packaging the food. There is no heavy lifting. There are jobs for everyone regardless of age or ability. Some participants will be pouring the ingredients into the bags, others will be weighing the bags, others will be sealing the bags, runners will bring the sealed bags to people who box and palletize the finished meals. People as young as three years old have participated. Church groups, civic organizations, schools and senior citizen groups have all participated in packaging the Kids Against Hunger Meals.
How are the meals packaged?
Packaging meals are simple. The ingredients of rice, soy protein, dried vegetables, vitamins/minerals and chicken flavoring are a complete, nutritious meal, with packaged meals having been sent throughout the world. There are 6 meals to a bag, and 36 bags to a box. Each box contains 216 meals. There are over 285,000 meals to a container.
How long does it take to package meals?
A typical packaging event lasts about two hours. During that time, each person normally packages around 350 meals.
An event with 285 people will package 100,000 meals in two hours!
How much does it cost?
Each meal costs $0.12. With the news of food costs rising throughout the world, the fact that our costs
remain so low is a major component to our success. Packaging Event hosts are asked to raise money to cover the cost of the number of meals packaged at their event. The standard donation is $25 per person at each event.
There are NO administrative charges. 100% of all money raised goes to pay for the cost of the meals.
So where do the meals go?
Kids Against Hunger gives the meals away free of charge. We have set up a distribution network utilizing the Harry Chapin Food Bank, and Collier Harvest. Between both organizations the meals are distributed to over 200 agencies in Southwest Florida, located in Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Hendry and Glades Counties. Some of the agencies that distribute the Kids Against Hunger Meals include, St Matthew's House, Shelter for Abused Women, Immokalee Friendship House, and Guadalupe Family Center. We are committed to distribute as many meals possible in Southwest Florida. In addition we have sent food to Jamaica and Haiti, as hurricane relief and in response to food riots.
See this article about a guy in Naples FL who puts together packets of rice, protein and flavoring to make nutritious meals for $.10 a serving -- more than 3.5 million as of this last December -- and that's in just 9 months!
An International Food Relief Campaign
Meals Packaged to Date:
3,815,912
http://www.naples-daily-news.com/news/2008/mar/09/rotary-club-naples-distributes-its-millionth-rice-/
This program is through the group Steve Popper started, Kids Against Hunger -- http://kidsagainsthungerofswfl.org/Contact_Us.php
Want to do this in your town? contact them at: info@kidsagainsthungerofswfl.org
Churches, youth groups, community groups help do this in Naples -- why not here?
What is a packaging event?
A packaging event is a community-involved project. During the Event, participants will be trained and supervised in how to package the food. Training will take about ten minutes, the rest of the time will be spent packaging the food. There is no heavy lifting. There are jobs for everyone regardless of age or ability. Some participants will be pouring the ingredients into the bags, others will be weighing the bags, others will be sealing the bags, runners will bring the sealed bags to people who box and palletize the finished meals. People as young as three years old have participated. Church groups, civic organizations, schools and senior citizen groups have all participated in packaging the Kids Against Hunger Meals.
How are the meals packaged?
Packaging meals are simple. The ingredients of rice, soy protein, dried vegetables, vitamins/minerals and chicken flavoring are a complete, nutritious meal, with packaged meals having been sent throughout the world. There are 6 meals to a bag, and 36 bags to a box. Each box contains 216 meals. There are over 285,000 meals to a container.
How long does it take to package meals?
A typical packaging event lasts about two hours. During that time, each person normally packages around 350 meals.
An event with 285 people will package 100,000 meals in two hours!
How much does it cost?
Each meal costs $0.12. With the news of food costs rising throughout the world, the fact that our costs
remain so low is a major component to our success. Packaging Event hosts are asked to raise money to cover the cost of the number of meals packaged at their event. The standard donation is $25 per person at each event.
There are NO administrative charges. 100% of all money raised goes to pay for the cost of the meals.
So where do the meals go?
Kids Against Hunger gives the meals away free of charge. We have set up a distribution network utilizing the Harry Chapin Food Bank, and Collier Harvest. Between both organizations the meals are distributed to over 200 agencies in Southwest Florida, located in Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Hendry and Glades Counties. Some of the agencies that distribute the Kids Against Hunger Meals include, St Matthew's House, Shelter for Abused Women, Immokalee Friendship House, and Guadalupe Family Center. We are committed to distribute as many meals possible in Southwest Florida. In addition we have sent food to Jamaica and Haiti, as hurricane relief and in response to food riots.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Plant those seeds now!
See the cool website at wintersown.org to see photos and get info on howyou can start your plants NOW outside in milk jugs an plastic containers. you can also exchange seeds and get free ones from others.
The plants will grow stronger and earlier from being outside, even in freezing temps. If you are not into starting plants and watching over them, bring your plastic jugs and plastic covered containers from restaurants, food etc. to church and we'll plant them for you!
We hope to have a great garden area around the new parking lot this summer, for fresh vegetables for the food pantry. We will be needing help with some of it to get set up so watch for details!
Shelly
The plants will grow stronger and earlier from being outside, even in freezing temps. If you are not into starting plants and watching over them, bring your plastic jugs and plastic covered containers from restaurants, food etc. to church and we'll plant them for you!
We hope to have a great garden area around the new parking lot this summer, for fresh vegetables for the food pantry. We will be needing help with some of it to get set up so watch for details!
Shelly
Friday, January 9, 2009
Request from Publix
Manager at the Kennesaw Publix at Jiles asked if we would please take a black marker and strike down through somewhere in the upc code of items so they would not be returned for cash. He got a report that a man named Jerry C. was doing this and bragging about how much money he got from Publix. That's not our intent, I know. Mike Chester said if we run a line down vertically in the upc codes that will not let it scan for refunds. I think this is a terrible misuse of our time, effort and money to give money for beer, etc. I'd like all other food pantries to know this too.
Shelly
Shelly
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Sharing the Bread of Life
I've been thinking a lot about how to get the people at our food pantry more nutritious food. One idea I've been pursuing was linking up with Real Bread Ministry which wants to help get fresh bread to food pantries.
Sue Becker asked me to put my ideas together, so I did.
She has such a great network of bread makers in this area, so I thought why not each person who makes bread make one loaf for the hungry and freeze it, then donate to their local food pantry.
Hopefully that will resonate with her. I often have more dough, and more bread than we can use and freeze the extra. But can't make 60 loaves extra every two weeks--financial and kitchen-wise.
Also trying to find ways to use some of the beans and grains I have to package into small quantities to make lentil soup, etc. Don't know if anyone noticed the bags of millet !! People probably wondered what the heck is this . . .
need to label, give directions on it if it's something they might not be familiar with.
Anyway . . . let me know if you have any ideas!
http://www.breadbeckers.com she's willing to give supplies at cost for food pantry baking . . .
Shelly
Now accepting food donations for Beth Day Memorial Food Pantry
http://www.chem-dry.net/allstar.ga
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