Ample Harvest? Pass some along: Wasted Food blogs about Ample Harvest, a high-tech way to connect gardeners with extra produce to food pantries that need fresh food. Perhaps it’s one of a number of ways that technology might change the food system, but in the meantime, the Campus Kitchen at the University of Vermont’s Plant a Row for Hunger project is  based on the same principle, but doin’ it up grassroots.

Group sees large donations, but no room: It’s not only the fledgling Campus Kitchens that are looking for space, but food banks and food pantries too. Some have gotten help from unlikely sources, and others create partnerships that allow them to store the overload. But while need grows, are donations being wasted because of lack of space?

 More food donated, less waste: With these forces combined, Florida may be in the running for food recovery capital of the U.S: the Florida state legislature expanded the Emerson Good Samaritan Act last year, and Campus Kitchens are up and running at Jackson University and the University of Florida. This editorial joins the call for more food donations and more redistribution:

Now, with Lee County facing a staggering rise in demand at feeding agencies, it’s time for providers and restaurants to take full advantage of the state’s food-donation program.

Why the poor pay more: This piece considers the lived experience of poverty, and focuses on the little things that make up the cycle: check-cashing costs, laundromat waits, corner store prices, and gaps in the system where working moms tend to fall.

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