{"id":12754,"date":"2012-09-26T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T10:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/?p=12754"},"modified":"2012-09-25T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T01:15:15","slug":"giving-back-at-farm-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/giving-back-at-farm-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Back At Farm Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Attaching itself to the popularity of farmers markets, the Give It Fresh Today cause opened a table last month at Windward Mall\u2019s Wednesday market and already has collected more than 270 pounds of surplus and donated produce to feed hungry area families.<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIn the first few weeks, the Kaneohe community has fully embraced the concept,\u201d said GIFT founder and volunteer Vivian Best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth our local shoppers and local farmers are enthusiastic about feeding our local community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The concept is simple: Shoppers can buy extra items and donate them; gardeners can bring their harvests from home, as well as excess seeds for GIFT\u2019s seed-share box. The group also maintains a reusable bag exchange for market customers.<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Best said she now hopes to recruit more volunteers to help out at the mall\u2019s new Sunday market. (Her team is located at the top of the escalator from 2:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays.)<\/p>\n<p>For more details or to offer help, call her at 282-0053 or email giveitfreshtoday@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with the nonprofit Aloha Harvest, GIFT delivers donated Windward Mall produce free of charge to agencies such as Family Promise of Kailua, Kaneohe Seventh-day Adventist Church and Hope Chapel Olomana.<\/p>\n<p>It also operates at Kapiolani Community College\u2019s Saturday and Tuesday markets, and at Blaisdell Center\u2019s Wednesday market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attaching itself to the popularity of farmers markets, the Give It Fresh Today cause opened a table last month at..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windward","category-windward-oahu-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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