Developing, educating, maintaining a fruit bank for low income families all over the country!
Knowledgeable lfrvs will supervise these banks and we will empower, educate, and assist the entire community through our efforts! Speaking events!
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  • Mera/Feather Story July 10, 2013 at 11:48am

    Is anyone still interested in this idea/group?

  • Mera/Feather Story April 20, 2011 at 11:46am
    Wow. I'm so glad this group was started.  When I first got very serious about lfrv Doug Graham gave us the advice of starting a co-op where we were because the fruit supply was low and over-priced...I have been planning and thinking of ways to implement this idea since, even though I have moved. This project sounds exactly inline with the ideas I was planning.
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Update on fruit bank

Hello all... I am currently in the Southeast U.S.  I've been thinking about this idea and came to the conclusion that the most important thing I can think to work on is educating people about the fruit economy and how to empower their communities by presenting the idea of growing, picking, sharing and eating fruit, a lot of it...especially for homeless and low-income people, schools, prisons, hospitals, etc. If fruit trees in a community are known, identified, recorded and people who are hungry…

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Who Wants A Fruit Bank Where You Are?

My idea about how to educate people on this lifestyle is to have maybe a few mobile branches, and to make it a fruit school, similar to the free skool trend.  My goal is to get an RV/camper or something of the sort and go to areas where people need to hear this message, as well as see how it works, and I think it would also be great to host camping trips, especially near wild growing fruit and let people come out and see what it's like to eat a lot of fruit, and live a fruity lifestyle.

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Where To Get Fruit?

If I'm not mistaken(and I don't think I am, since I've looked into it)... grocery stores will not donate food unless you're a registered non-profit, and for the most part they only donate to food banks. However, it might be possible to find gardeners, farmers, etc. to donate.  Also it could be a great idea to locate wild trees and trees in yards to get fruit from. In terms of getting free fruits&veggies, I think it is fine to accept any fruits and veggies...but in terms of a cost-share…

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Ideas and Goals

Hi everyone, I talked with the creator of this group and I told her I'd like to take on this project since she is too busy to do so.  I had already been planning a project like this, due to the fact that my family is low-income, and when asked how to do lfrv with low-income Dr. Doug Graham advised us to start a co-op.  I have looked into that and found a great way of making this work.  For people to cost-share for produce and also to have an abundance of fruit/veg donated or gleaned for free,…

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