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Tom Waits’ New Book Raises Funds for Sonoma Food Bank

A new chap book by Tom Waits, called “Seeds on Hard Ground”, is being released this month to help raise money for homeless services and a food bank in the northern California county where Waits and his family live. All of the book’s proceeds are being donated to the Redwood Empire Food Bank, as well …

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Banking on the Harvest

Food Industry, Food Politics + Justice, Food Safety, Grow Your Own Food / By Danielle Nierenberg

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. In the Maradi area in south central Niger, where 70 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, the months before the harvest are called “the hunger season.” From mid-July to mid-September, food supplies are at their lowest and most families only eat one meal a …

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