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I don’t think I’ll ever figure out how the produce section of any store makes money. What you see above is just a couple of hours of “waste.” Imagine how many boxes of produce would be on my porch if I collected free produce scraps for an entire month. I won’t, but I bet it Read More >>
What? No bananas? Seriously? What happened? Was there a monkey convention or something we didn’t hear about? It’s been ages since we haven’t had at least 10 pounds of bananas in the free produce boxes Mr. Produce Guy sets aside for us each week. Shriveled mangos, soft grapes and super soft apples. Perfect for chickens, Read More >>
Another week, another couple of boxes of ugly discarded produce we hauled home because nobody wanted to pay full price for them at the supermarket. This week Mr. Produce Guy stuffed our reclaimed boxes full of all sorts of goodies for our backyard flock of chickens. There were practically 2 boxes filled with just greens! Read More >>
Thanksgiving is right around the corner so I thought I would throw on my pilgrim outfit and do a little bartering with my neighbors this week. Because hello, who doesn’t need a little fresh produce right about now? I decided to stop by my neighbor Hulda’s house first. Hulda is cool. She occasionally helps me Read More >>
Well there was a heck of a lot of variety this week in the reclaimed food boxes we picked up from Mr. Produce Guy. Lot’s of melons, lettuce and miscellany for the chickens, and plenty of good stuff for us. Bananas. I don’t think a week has gone by in the last few months where Read More >>
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