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Free Cutting Board!

 

Remember, give $25 or more, and we will give you a great cutting board to brighten your home and your life, as a thank you from the countless people you are helping to brighten their outlook.

 


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600+ Plants started
We have corn, tomatoes and several other fresh produce items in the ground. We now have 600+ Plants in the ground as of 5/10/2009. We still need your help, we would like to plant another 2000+ plants within the next 10 days! Please make your donations today, to help plant more!

General Information

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PLANTING STATUS: 600+ Plants in the ground as of 5/10/2009 | Goal of 2000



Welcome to Buy A Seed

 

The mission of the "Buy A Seed" is to provide a gateway to share Fresh Produce and grocery products with our Nation and neighbors in need. Click here for more information about our mission.

We want to change the way the food system works. We believe everyone should have access to healthy food, regardless of income. We call this "food justice" - the belief that healthy food is a human right. The food system is failing to provide low-income people with the healthy foods they need to thrive. It is also failing to create good jobs and support local food businesses in urban communities. So "Buy A Seed" is working towards creating a food system that centralize the needs of the urban and rural poor and develop programs and enterprises that produce and distribute fresh foods, provide nutrition education, promote agriculture and create local jobs.

The Program

"Buy A Seed" is working to partner with hundreds of organizations to pioneer an innovative food policy reform initiative that returns healthy fresh produce to the diets of our nations Hungry. Our programs will include workshops that teach the relationship to food and health and explore the disparities in health that relate to the political framework of society.

We Need Your Help

Through your generous donations "Buy A Seed" will be able to accomplish its goals. Contributors of $500.00 to $999.00 will be listed on all future materials, and on our website, as "donors" and contributors of $1,000.00 or more will be listed as "major contributors." Donations as little as $2.00 can be made on-line by clicking the donate link on this website.

More and more public health studies are linking poor nutrition to a host of diseases that compromise the lives of low-income families. In 2007, California's 9th District Congresswoman Barbara Lee tried to survive on $21 worth of food stamps for a week and found that she could not afford to purchase fresh produce. Since then and since the economic recession has grown, many TV reporters and other have repeated this task with the same results. In response to this widespread problem, "Buy A Seed" has proposed an innovative program that provides fresh produce to low income people which are specifically grown for this reason.