Inspiration

Here are a few examples of people doing things I’d like to do.

Compost

The Compost Cooperative in Greenfield, Massachussets provides residents with 5 gallon buckets to fill with food scraps, then picks up the buckets and delivers them to a local farm to be composted. The Denver Compost Collective is doing the same thing.

Food rescue

Here are a few examples of organizations that pick up food that’s headed for the trash can and redistribute it so it gets eaten:

Philly Food Rescue
Boulder Food Rescue (bonus points: they do it on bicycles)
More operations listed on the Food Rescue Hero website

Farming

Here are a few nearby farms growing food organically:

Hornsby Farms in Auburn, AL is a small family farm. (Not sure how I feel about plasticulture 🤔)

Lost crops

Buckeye Seed & Supply produces and sells goosefoot seeds. So does PlantPassion777 on Etsy.

Coffee

Cafe Campesino is a small coffee roaster in Americus, GA that gets their beans from a cooperatively owned and operated coffee importing organization.