Article by Mel Ulle
Occasionally, you learn about a nonprofit that is doing something so simple, obvious, and necessary that it causes a smallish explosion in your brain. And then you ask yourself, “is everyone in the world smarter than me and thinking up brilliant solutions to the world’s most complex issues while I am just sitting here watching comedies on Brit Box?” And the answer is “yes.” Genius is everywhere, except in this house where we can’t seem to figure out how to fix a Dyson so we sit here in squalor praying it will fix itself.
Meet the relatively new and simply brilliant Fresh Food Connect. The issue they sought to solve is a common quandary most vegetable gardeners face each year in late August, or early September. Too much produce and not enough squash-eaters.
Each year, roughly one in ten people in the U.S. experiences food insecurity, yet 40% of our food goes to waste. Meanwhile, one in three American households grows vegetables and/or fruit at home or in community gardens. Fresh Food Connect created a mobile app to assist thousands of home gardeners to share their homegrown produce donations to support local hunger relief agencies.
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