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Thread #96226   Message #1883120
Posted By: GUEST,pattyClink
11-Nov-06 - 11:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Help! A plethora of apples!
Subject: RE: BS: Help! A plethora of apples!
Does your ?? mean 'what is a food bank or feeding centre'?   If so I'll take a stab.

Food banks collect and store donated food for strapped families to come "shop" for what they need, generally non-perishables. So you'd have to find one, and call and ask if apples would keep well enough to sit on their shelves til needed.   Some other operations may emphasize daily 'gleaning' of perishable excess foods from donors or restaurants for redistributiont to charitable facilities, so you might do a local search on 'gleaners' to find such an organization.   Feeding centers, well we have several around town, they serve hot meals to homeless folks or whoever needs a meal. Again you'd have to call, they might be thrilled to get some fresh fruit or they may have a bunch of elderly who don't chomp raw apples and may not have the manpower to transform it into goodies. If you're in a truly rural area, you may not have any of these centers nearby.

One more aside on this, when our farmers around here have excess they simply find a likely spot on a busy road or intersection and sell the fruit from the tailgate of the truck.   If you don't have time to spend days doing that, maybe just for a couple of busy Saturdays? If there already tons of people doing that, drop by with samples and ask one or two if they would like to acquire some of your crop?