Create an annual 'LOW-COST PRODUCE DISTRIBUTION DAY' for Greater Boston

http://fairfoods.org/dollarbag.html

Throughout the long, sometimes-troubled, and often fast-moving history of the City of Boston have been visionaries who distributed fresh produce for free or for very low cost.

One of Boston's under-celebrated but very valuable group's is Fair Foods of Dorchester, but others have also done good work in this area.  But perhaps the major effort by these 'old ladies with trucks' led by Nancy Jamison is with Fair Foods, whose work is highly appreciated by those who receive the weekly hefty bags of fresh vegetables. These easily-available edibles contribute to their more easily practicing the evidence-based diets that many lower income persons would not prioritize when they go shopping in their local groceries and convenience stores.

Fair Foods is a Boston food rescue non-profit that rescues surplus fruits and vegetables from Boston industry source and distributes the food to those in need.  The policy is 'no qualification; no limit!'

'Fair Foods of Dorchester' now is in its 4th decade
of rescuing and distributing high-quality low-cost surplus vegetables and fruits
to lower income neighborhoods of Greater Boston.

This helps people and public agencies and nonprofits
achieve community health goals at no cost to them.

But lest we slight all the others who work in this area, let's make the thank you generic, since those who benefit from any one of the several charitable outreaches know whose hand is feeding them.

It's time for Boston and surrounding cities and towns -
AND for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
to declare and publicize an annual 'LOW-COST PRODUCE DISTRIBUTION DAY'
in order to increase visibility of - and participation in -
the $2 Bag of produce distribution programs of Fair Foods, and the other distribution strategies others may have devised.

http://fairfoods.org/dollarbag.html
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