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Hello Fruity Folks!! (View in Browser)
We have some exciting news! Neighborhood Fruit has been nominated for the best Slow Money Business in America! Please vote for us; you can cast up to three votes per business. If we win, we can do more of what you love, so vote today and tell your friends about it! Slow Money is committed to investing in local food systems, connecting investors to their local economies and nurturing healthy communities, embedded in their principles.
Today, April 22nd, is the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. On this day, Neighborhood Fruit celebrates the growing community of sharing and care for each other. We are heartened to see so many people participate! Happy Earth Day, fruit lovers!
Fruitfully Yours,
Kaytea and Oriana |
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Fruit Label
Home is Where the Fruit Is
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Early photographs of Earth from space helped people to viscerally realize that we all inhabit the same planet, catalyzing the early green movement. This month's label does homage to the environmental activists of the 50's and 60's, as well as sci-fi movies of that era that fictionalized future environmental crises.
The Fruit Label helps users identify what fruit has been prepared
for them; it also helps fruit growers communicate they are part of the
Neighborhood Fruit community. The label prints at four per page to save you ink and paper!
Don't have fruit to share? Download the desktop version just for fun!
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We are always looking for label art submissions. Please contact us for guidelines. |
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Earth Day Celebration
Report and photos from Heron's Head Park
Fruit Girls celebrated Earth Day by at Heron's Head Park, with Literacy for Environmental Justice, neighbors, community organizers, kids, bicyclists, activists, dogs, and even goats!
They were unveiling their new EcoCenter, San Francisco’s first 100% “off-the-grid” building, modeling solar power and alternative wastewater technologies. Nearly every feature of this 1,500-square-foot facility is innovative and model to educate the public about renewable energy, pollution and greenhouse gas reduction, wastewater treatment, renewable building materials, and the green economy.
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There's always fun news in the Neighborhood Fruit Blog! |
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Gardening Contest
Show off What You Got!
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Our friends at Instructables are running a gardening contest! Whether your garden is big or small, indoor or outdoor, dirt or hydroponic, urban or rural, just explain how you grow, build, or create anything for your garden. It's a great excuse to share your mad garden skills, and win some great tools in the process. Contest starts soon - check here for details.
Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. It's the world's largest show-and-tell and is full of step-by-step recipes, as well as food and garden-related projects! Try it today! |
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Tell us about your garden! |
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Recipes and Techniques
When life gives you lemons, make Limoncello!
Limoncello is one of those wonderful things that is significantly better when it is homemade than store bought. This traditional Italian liquor is delicious when poured over ice cubes and sipped at the end of a long hot day, or sipped straight in the dead of winter, savoring the warm sun flavor.
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What's cookin' in your kitchen? |
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