We’ve noted the Toronto NGO Not Far From the Tree before, and over the weekend the Globe and Mail had a story about the group and its cousins in other cities around North America who pick fruit from urban orchards. Thing is, it’s not as easy, or cheap, as free food sounds. Apparently, it costs something like $15,000 a year to mobilize the equipment and picking. It also takes time and money to manage the post-picking supply chain. The perennial complaint that money doesn’t grow on trees makes more sense now. Even when free stuff does grow on trees, it seems it’s a complicated and expensive undertaking to pass it around. Read the whole story »
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