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During this year, many organizations who pick fruit and donate it to needy folks in their communities have approached us for help. They have asked us to build them a data management portal, similar to Neighborhood Fruit for their gleaning organizations to use.

Last summer, we introduced you to our buddies Paul Hamilton and Aurora Wilson of Greenhearts Family Farm. Paul has been thinking alot about oil, because of the crisis in the Gulf, and had this to share.

Food folks, this might be of interest, brought to you by Sustainable Economies Law Center (one of the founders, Jenny Kassan, is the managing director at Katovich Law Group.) http://www.sustainableeconomieslawcenter.org/

Monday, July 12, 6:30, Hub Berkeley

• Workshop on legal issues that arise for commercial and non-profit urban farmers
• Presentation on SELC's research and hot legal topics
  

There's a great analysis on chickens in Good Eater:
If you haven’t noticed, there’s a nation-wide underground craze for backyard and urban chickens, to which I too have fallen prey. Yet the farmer in me has not yet smothered the MBA. The following is an objective analysis of whether or not the output of backyard chickens can ultimately “re-coop” the costs. The answer was surprising, and I have produced 5 key recommendations for economically raising backyard chickens.

Greg Giuliani, of Seattle Tree Fruit Society, recently pointed out: "A mid-sized apple tree will produce close to the same weight in fruit whether it has, for example, 200 or 50 apples on it."