12/22/2024
(consider if you have a lil hobby garden; but you’ve over produced. What if there was a captured local audience that would love to take those extra tomatoes off your hands? That is where The Stalk Exchange can help)
Most studies have failed to account for the food grown and lost in millions of home & community gardens. In 2015 and 2016, AmpleHarvest.org conducted a study with more than 2,500 gardeners nationwide asking two key questions:
How much more food do you grow than you can use (i.e. is there food waste)?
Would you be willing to donate the excess to a nearby food pantry if you had the opportunity (i.e. would you turn what might have been wasted food into a charitable donation)?
The results far exceeded what we could have every expected. The amount of home grown food that is not consumed is large enough to change the calculated national food waste totals.