No Food Left Behind
is the motto of this organisation.

http://www.ampleharvest.org/

It could do well in countries such as the DR.....

If every spare lot , government office grounds, school grounds were transfomed into market gardens.

s.

Didn't you post something similair to this a while back? Don't think DR is going to use this idea though.

Hungry in the USA?



HAHAHAHAHAHA


In the USA the "poor" have Cell Phones and Cable TV.


Why don't you talk about the starving people in that Fascist State you call the UK?

We have some common thoughts... I look out on to large empty roof tops and empty blocks and sigh," if only" .
This something that would need to start one roof at a time one empty block at a time.

I am talking to a hotel that have a car park empty roof top. The idea is to use the area to subsidize their restaurants, as a plant nursery and grow fresh flowers for rooms...
But I will say it will be run and will be a working organic and sustainable style garden, using organic food waste and garden cuttings to make soils, worm farms and mulch... to be used and excess sold ??? I have a high profile restaurant ready to help and a coffee producer willing to help market and expand the program with me....
This can be also used as a teaching program for anyone needing help and information on the best way to lower household food costs and reduce recyclable household waste... And educate the needy in basic food production in small areas...
Contact me if you have any ideas that could help move this forward...

I like and support the idea. Anything that uses new, innovative way to solve hunger and feed the most needy using immediate available resources, makes sense and I am all gun-ho about it. The concept facinates me.

I remember as a kid, it was common to see urban blight, depressed, low income communities, with many poor people having difficulty getting enough to eat, yet there was an abundant supply of empty and abandoned lots, sitting idle, many of which became defacto dump sites for vandals to rid illegal waste. Some one had the bright idea of turning these unproductive pieces of land into local neighborhood vegetable gardens.

The lots were cleaned up, seedings were donated and volunteers planted all kinds of vegetables, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, lettuce, radish and organic waste used as fertilizer. The community had access to free or low cost supply of fresh produce and any excess harvest was sold through a farmers market cooperative. The money raised was given back to the community to help overcome and further fight hunger.

It can't get any better than that, what more can you ask for? Instead of donations which do not in the long term solve but rather perpetuates the root cause of the problem, community vegetable gardens is the best way to teach people how to help themselves.

there are poor and hungry in all countries. believe me i've been to nations where kids have no clothes and have watched toddlers drop their food in a puddle on a muddy road full of animals and pick it up in front of their parents and eat it. i understand the relativity.

that said people are starving in the us. i've worked in a soup kitchen and can tell you from experience. i've had to take in a friend in high school that was homeless and helped feed another that had to finish high school living out of the back of a broken down van.

it happens here too. nit ti the same extent but it happens. good thread.

[Hungry in the USA?

HAHAHAHAHAHA

In the USA the "poor" have Cell Phones and Cable TV.

Why don't you talk about the starving people in that Fascist State you call the UK?]


Sorry I really have no reply or comment to such a stupid statement for this person, but will say that such a man that sits on a high horse and spits on anyone that may need help... he would tell drowning man to learn to swim and it is his fault that someone pushed him in.....

This may be the result of the hunger?

Cuba could begin to look attractive to many Americans ; other countries too.

Class war coming to America

Published: 12 January, 2012, 22:17

Men look in the window of the Central Park United Methodist Church which has a soup kitchen and food pantry on October 20, 2011 in Reading, Pennsylvania. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

TAGS: Crisis, USA, Culture, Economy
Never mind the budding war between America and Iran. A skirmish could be coming a lot closer to home and it might even be as centrally located as your own city. In only two years, tensions have grown greatly between the upper and lower classes.
The results from a recent survey out of the Pew Research Center reveal that 66 percent of the adults studied believe that there are either “very strong” or “strong” conflicts existing between America’s elite and impoverished, a statistic that has skyrocketed in recent years. Between 2009 and 20011, the proportion of those that sense conflicts exist as such between the class groups grew by 19 percentage points. While less than half of Americans fearing a fight brewing at the dawn of the Obama administration, today two-out-of-three Americans feel that there is a strong conflict between both extremes of society.
The growing inequality among the distribution of wealth in America has been a focal point of the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement. Next week the group will stage a protest in front of the Capitol Building in DC to demonstrate against, among other things, the corporate corruption between big business and Washington.
Aside from the relationship between the Capitol Building and the banks, though, the incredible amount of inequality in America today can be seen everywhere. As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, tensions tighten within the US. While a buffer zone of the middle class once bridged a gap between the extremes of the spectrum and allowed the less fortunate an obtainable goal to strive for, earlier statistics published in 2011 reveal that even the middle class is evaporating in America. Between 1970 and 2010, the number of Americans who live in middle-income neighborhoods shrank from 65 percent down to 44. While some were fortunate enough to move into higher ranks of society, the study conducted by Stanford University found that the many moving to an ever-expanding lower-class.
“The bottom fifth in the US looks very different from the bottom fifth in other countries,” researcher Scott Winship of the Brookings Institution told the National Review recently. “Poor Americans have to work their way up from a lower floor.”
"They don't feel any ability to move up. They feel stuck and don't feel there's a lottery ticket to take them to a higher class," former George W Bush strategist Matthew Dowd added to ABC.
And while the elite one percent can claim to make salaries in the excess of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, 20.5 million Americans — or 6.7 percent — have incomes that leave them to be grouped below half of the official poverty line. In Washington, DC, one-in-ten are grouped to be among the poorest of the poor.
President Obama has addressed the worsening issue, but has seemingly done little to correct the epidemic. Even after the administration boasted that they managed to lower the number of unemployment benefit claims the last two months, the supposed victory was short-lived. On Thursday this week, the US Department of Labor revealed that claims were back up to their highest in six weeks. Only last month the president told an audience in Kansas, "Now, this kind of inequality – a level that we haven't seen since the Great Depression – hurts us all.” With a year left until his administration either starts anew or is forced from the White House, he has proven so far that his policies have only worsened conditions for millions of unfortunate Americans while allowing the the most lavish lobbyists, politicians and corporate bigwigs to bring in billions.
"I am not angry at rich people I am angry at the people who manipulate the system,” Kevin Smith, 51, adds to CNN. Smith’s anger, many will attest, is directed accordingly. The system in question allowed the one percent to see a near 300 percent surge in income between 1979 and 2007.
As statistics suggest that tensions tighten, the news does not necessarily come as a shocker to any. Income segregation has been rampant in metropolitan areas of late, an earlier Stanford University study showed. Harvard University sociologist William J. Wilson explained to the New York Times in November that “More affluent citizens lives fundamentally different from the middle- and lower-income groups,” which in turn, he said, creates a divide that “decreases a sense of community.”
In the latest polling from Pew, the statistics show that the numbers are indeed pointing towards the truth. According to the survey, 46 percent of the 2,048 adults questioned believe that the wealthy only got that way “because they know the right people or were born into wealthy families.” With an assumption that a strong or very strong conflict exists increasing in only two years time, at this rate 85 percent of Americans would sense a class war in two years’ time.

http://rt.com/usa/news/class-war-america-inequality-645/

S.

It's a great way to do this. In the city or suburbs where I live in the states, mostly everyone is into gardening and had planted or have fruit trees. Everyone is so proud of what we harvest.
It is so a great feeling to eat produce from your small plant bed and trees.
It is natural to bring fruits and vegetable to your neighbors, we all share.

It used to be like this in the Cibao when I was growing up. Almost everyone had fruit trees, and believe me one would get lots of visitors in during fruit season.

i like the idea of gardens and community gardens too. detroit has already considered rezoning parts of the city for farming and that just may be the wave of the future as jobs get shipped overseas with no one either democrat or republican with the spine to stop it.