Food not Bombs

This will make the second week I've donated food we've "urban farmed" to Food not Bombs. This week I'm donating about 20 pounds of food, including potatoes, an onion, rutabagas, beets, zucchini, lettuce, broccoli, three loaves of bread, and sandwich rolls. Here's a documentary about Food not Bombs in Eugene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jZKjBVXGJI

Sunday, May 22

Two of us went on a late night Sunday run. We hit the jackpot at one place, where as soon as we opened the dumpster, there were two dozen eggs sitting right on top. One egg in each dozen had a small crack. The dumpster was overflowing (literally) with produce. We were asked to leave before we could get through most of the bags. We decided to come back later in the evening, but the Sanipac guy beat us by just a few minutes. Lesson learned: If you think you have bags of good stuff, throw it in the car/truck and sort it out later, rather than losing precious time slowly sorting through bags. Here was the haul:

2 dozen eggs (plus one)
20# bag of russet potatoes
7 rutabagas
7 lemons
1 bag of butter lettuce
apple
8 bunches of beets
1 bag of brocolli
1 bag of granola
10 baguettes
5 sandwich rolls
1 box of campari tomatoes
17 roma tomatoes
8 limes
7 oranges (various)
4 zuchinnis
2 onions
1 carrot
1 bag of green beans
1 head of lettuce
1 red potato
6 heads of broccoli

Tuesday, May 17th

Four of us went out last night. Left the house at 11pm, and was back home by 12:30. Uneventful night, but quite the haul

10 heads of Garlic
2 bunches of radishes
2 cantaloupes
2 yellow bell peppers
1 orange bell pepper
1 green bell pepper
3 ears of corn
1 mango
3 kiwis
1 5# bag of carrots + 2 carrots
1 bunch of asparagus + 1 stalk
1 8oz package of button mushrooms
1 package of cheese tortellini
1 package of fusilli
1 bunch of cilantro
1 bunch of kale
2 zuchinnis
1 cuke
10 bags of brussel sprouts
12 oranges
2 potatoes
5 baguettes
5 croissants
1 blueberry muffin
4 rolls (various)
18 apples
1 tub of cherry tomatoes
1 tub of mixed fruit
1 bag of mandarin oranges
2 packages of strawberrys
5 single serving yogurts
1 64oz tub of Nancy's plain yogurt
1 package of goat cheese
1 tub of spinach/sour cream dip
5 eggs
2 bags of celery
4 bananas
1 8oz pack of Irish butter
1 package of swiss cheese
1 package of french cheese
1 bag of jasmine rice
5 tomatoes

Documentary on Dumpster Diving

Here is a trailer for a film called "Dive" that looks to be well done, getting into the social consequences of and ways to resist living in a society built on waste.

http://www.divethefilm.com/trailer.aspx

Sunday, May 16th

I left the house at 11:15pm, hit two places, was back home with all the produce washed and photographed and climbing into bed by 12:30. I got caught by a store employee who just seemed more exasperated than anything else by my presence. The exchange went something like:

Him: Dude, what are you doing!?
Me: Getting food that you throw away.
Him: You can't be here, this isn't your property.
Me: OK.

I was going to go back to it when he left, but unfortunately he went and turned the trash compacter on. On to the next place then.

Here's what I got:
1 bag of key limes
A ziploc bag full of kale
11 tomatoes
1 yam
1 poblano chile
1 habanero chile
1 zuchinni
1 bunch of upland cress
1 bunch of radishes
14 brussell sprouts
1 cantelope
5 bananas
2 1 3/4 pound bags of honey gold potatoes
1 head of garlic
4 half pineapples
8 apples
2 pears
Large bag of sunflower seeds