3 dozen donuts placed in the free fridge!

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   Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 13:24:41 JST Tinker ☀️

   I'm starting up a Food Rescue program in my town.

   The idea is that restaurants and stores throw away good food every night. Food rescue (also known as "gleaning") is where a person (Food Rescue Hero or Gleaner) goes to stores/restaurants and takes the good food that would otherwise be thrown out and provides it to hungry folks (either distributed centrally through a food pantry, decentrally through a free fridge / community pantry, or peer-to-peer directly to a person or family).

   I'm currently researching tracking and coordination apps (such as foodrescue.us and others) but in the process of doing this I found myself at a local donut shop asking if they had 5-gallon food safe buckets that they could give away for hydroponics (i had received a tip!). They said they did and we started talking about food rescue. They said they had tried to donate their unsold donuts to a couple of pantries but no one could ever pick them up. I told them I would.

   ...and look what they provided!!!

   My first food rescue, y'all!!!

   3 dozen donuts!

   I ran them straight to the free fridge! They can do this every night!!!

   So cheers to Freddy Donuts in Fredericksburg, Virginia!

   #foodRescue #freeFridge #communityPantry #foodSecurity #mutualAid #solarPunk