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Duer 157099

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Wed Apr 3, 2013, 01:57 PM Apr 2013

Flash mob solution to crop surplus

The concept is simple. A lot of perishable food goes to waste and there are a lot of hungry people in Sonoma County. Why not connect the dots? That's just what Papadopoulos has done.

When Papadopoulos began working with Bloomfield Farms not quite a year ago, he saw immediately that an enormous amount of food was wasted. On an average day at a farmers market, for example, close to 30 percent of crops came back to the farm. Typically, these returns ended up in the compost.

This reality, combined with the knowledge that about 17 percent of Californians, most of them children, don't know where their next meal will come from, troubled Papadopoulos constantly. And like an oyster transforms an abrasive grain of sand into a beautiful pearl, Papadopoulos transformed his worry into an innovative distribution system that is already catching fire far beyond the borders of Sonoma County. He's had calls from farmers in four states and an organic farmer in Mexico interested in setting up similar systems in their communities.


More at link.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20130403/LIFESTYLE/304031007/1350?p=all&tc=pgall
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Flash mob solution to crop surplus (Original Post) Duer 157099 Apr 2013 OP
Yes! Crob mobs. OneGrassRoot Apr 2013 #1
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