Gardeners Sharing Their Ample Harvest With A Community Food Pantry
By Alan on May 01 in Blog tagged Alan Osmond, Ample Harvest, community, donate excess garden produce, food pantry, gardeners, help feed families, One Heart, oneheart.org, sharing their harvest, theNeighbor.com | Comments Off
Gardeners Sharing Their Ample Harvest With
A Community Food Pantry
AmpleHarvest.org LetsMove Challenge
AmpleHarvest.org is a nationwide campaign that enables millions of home gardeners to donate excess garden produce to local food pantries. This donated produce is often the only fresh food available at the food pantries that 1 out of every 6 Americans relies on to help feed their family.
AmpleHarvest.org’s “No Food Left Behind” concept is designed to educate, encourage and enable growers nationwide to help their community by helping them reach into their backyards instead of their back pockets to help their neighbors in need.
Let’s Move! encourages people to eat healthy food, but for the tens of millions of Americans who simply can’t afford it, AmpleHarvest.org enables what Let’s Move! and the First Lady advocate.
America’s challenge is not that we don’t have enough healthy food. Rather, it is that we don’t know that the healthy food we need is already in our community and available at no cost from local growers. AmpleHarvest.org solved that problem.
You can help in your own community.
**Urge a local food pantry to register at AmpleHarvest.org.**
Find the food pantry in your community – possibly in a nearby house of worship, YMCA or other civic location. Give them the www.AmpleHarvest.org/pantry flier and urge them to register ASAP. Let them know they don’t need refrigeration for freshly harvested produce, they don’t need the Internet and that AmpleHarvest.org is totally FREE!
**Help others learn about AmpleHarvest.org.**
Put www.AmpleHarvest.org/blogarticle in your blog or newsletter.
**Help local gardeners learn to share their garden bounty**
Print the www.AmpleHarvest.org/gardenshop flier and post it in local garden shops, nurseries, community and bulletin boards to help growers help the hungry.
**Help publicize the AmpleHarvest.org Campaign**
Ask your local media to visit www.AmpleHarvest.org/press and do a story about people in the community wanting fresh produce for their families from the local food pantry
**Lastly, (Click HERE)
Please vote for AmpleHarvest.org
in this challenge!**
Every vote helps increase the chances that more people in more communities will get access to fresh food… many for the first time.
This is Alan Osmond inviting you to support AmpleHarvest.org/VOTE to bring awareness and food from those who have it to those who are in need!
We are OF ONE HEART when we LOVE
THE NEIGHBOR as ourselves.
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Alan Osmond
For The Family
What To Do Before An Earthquake
By Alan on Apr 09 in Blog tagged check for hazards, communication, community, educate yourself, plan, safe places, supplies, What to do before an earthquake | Comments Off
Earthquakes strike suddenly, violently and without warning. Identifying potential hazards ahead of time and advance planning can reduce the dangers of serious injury or loss of life from an earthquake. Repairing deep plaster cracks in ceilings and foundations, anchoring overhead lighting fixtures to the ceiling, and following local seismic building standards, will help reduce the impact of earthquakes.
Six Ways to Plan Ahead
- Check for Hazards in the Home
- Fasten shelves securely to walls.
- Place large or heavy objects on lower shelves.
- Store breakable items such as bottled foods, glass, and china in low, closed cabinets with latches.
- Hang heavy items such as pictures and mirrors away from beds, couches, and anywhere people sit.
- Brace overhead light fixtures.
- Repair defective electrical wiring and leaky gas connections. These are potential fire risks.
- Secure a water heater by strapping it to the wall studs and bolting it to the floor.
- Repair any deep cracks in ceilings or foundations. Get expert advice if there are signs of structural defects.
- Store weed killers, pesticides, and flammable products securely in closed cabinets with latches and on bottom shelves.
- Identify Safe Places Indoors and Outdoors
- Under sturdy furniture such as a heavy desk or table.
- Against an inside wall.
- Away from where glass could shatter around windows, mirrors, pictures, or where heavy bookcases or other heavy furniture could fall over.
- In the open, away from buildings, trees, telephone and electrical lines, overpasses, or elevated expressways.
- Educate Yourself and Family Members
- Contact your local emergency management office or American Red Cross chapter for more information on earthquakes. Also read the “How-To Series” for information on how to protect your property from earthquakes.
- Teach children how and when to call 9-1-1, police, or fire department and which radio station to tune to for emergency information.
- Teach all family members how and when to turn off gas, electricity, and water.
- Have Disaster Supplies on Hand
- Flashlight and extra batteries.
- Portable battery-operated radio and extra batteries.
- First aid kit and manual.
- Emergency food and water.
- Nonelectric can opener.
- Essential medicines.
- Cash and credit cards.
- Sturdy shoes.
- Develop an Emergency Communication Plan
- In case family members are separated from one another during an earthquake (a real possibility during the day when adults are at work and children are at school), develop a plan for reuniting after the disaster.
- Ask an out-of-state relative or friend to serve as the “family contact.” After a disaster, it’s often easier to call long distance. Make sure everyone in the family knows the name, address, and phone number of the contact person.
- Help Your Community Get Ready
- Publish a special section in your local newspaper with emergency information on earthquakes. Localize the information by printing the phone numbers of local emergency services offices, the American Red Cross, and hospitals.
- Conduct a week-long series on locating hazards in the home.
- Work with local emergency services and American Red Cross officials to prepare special reports for people with mobility impairments on what to do during an earthquake.
- Provide tips on conducting earthquake drills in the home.
- Interview representatives of the gas, electric, and water companies about shutting off utilities.
- Work together in your community to apply your knowledge to building codes, retrofitting programs, hazard hunts, and neighborhood and family emergency plans.
