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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

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     Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 08:09:59 JST Tinker ☀️

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     Ok! Had a technical demo of the web app for food rescue.

     I think we're going to go with them.

     Solid desktop app that scales well for mobile.

     Its a lightweight org with a small budget but they're doing a lot with it. Feature rich currently and does everything i need it to do so far as coordinating between the food rescue sites, the food distribution sites, and the gleaners connecting the two.

     Once we get it up and running officially, i'll post it here.

     #foodRescue #foodSecurity #mutualAid #solarPunk #postScarcity

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     Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 08:10:00 JST Tinker ☀️

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     Update on my Food Rescue Initiative for my local town!!!

     Two Things.

     One, I've been getting hooked up with the local mutual aid crowd in my town and met some wonderful people recently!!! One of them is an organizer and is very very interested in creating more Free Fridges throughout town annnnnnd is very interested in setting up a Food Rescue program!

     So her and I have been teaming up to get it done.

     Two, we just had a meeting with a national (United States) group that has their own web app for coordinating between food contributors (the places that create the food and would otherwise throw out the good food that wasn't sold), food distributors, and the gleaners / volunteers who connect the two... basically logistics.

     It was a good meeting and we may start to work under their aegis.

     We're doing a technical demo of the web app this week hopefully.

     If we decide to go with them, I'll put the update here.

     I'm excited!!!

     #solarPunk #foodRescue #foodSecurity

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