Our work
What a farm gains
Produce that leaves the yard and feeds people nearby.
A farm that works with The Neighbour’s Table gets the contact of an organization that collects what it cannot sell, from students who do what they said they would do.
Surplus is a standing problem on a working farm. A contract falls through, a buyer’s specification changes, a crop comes in heavier than the market wanted, or the fruit is the wrong size or shape for a supermarket shelf. What is left is edible and already grown, and it is usually disced back into the field, which means ploughed back into the soil. Instead, the farm can hand it to an organization that collects it, free, with its own vehicle.
The grower hears from one named student, with the Teacher Advisor copied, not a switchboard. The farm arranges the pickup directly with the organization that collects, and the chapter records the outcome either way. Where an organization nearby can collect, produce stays in the region it was grown in.
Grown here, eaten here.
Our work
The whole operation in one place: how chapters build farm lists, ask farms one question and hand every yes to a food bank, and what we advocate for while we do it.
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The work
Ask, introduce, record. Three things, done by students in named roles, once a week at lunch, through the school year.
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Surplus produce
Surplus is not spoiled food. It is produce that is sound, graded out, overstocked or unsold, and this page explains where it comes from and why there is so much of it.
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