Mission Mission

Every Sunday, the Free Farm Stand sets up shop at Treat Commons and offers a beautiful array of produce to low-income and tight-budgeted folks from the neighborhood. It’s run by Tree, who also writes the Free Farm Stand blog. Over the weekend, the woman on the left had a bright idea:

Fillipa suggested I put up a sign in the neighborhood saying that I am available to pick people’s fruit trees. She knows of two neighbors with fruit trees that don’t get picked. I think I will do that and let people know that the farm stand will take any fruit as well as pick it.

Link. So if your fruit tree is sitting unattended, get in touch with Tree via the blog, or visit the Free Farm Stand at the Treat Commons Community Garden (at 23rd and Treat) every Sunday from 1-3pm.

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Over at the Free Farm Stand, Tree is floating the idea of taking on an intern:

I like the way City Slicker Farm in West Oakland has interns that help run their program. I am thinking of trying to get cheap inflatable water park a grant to pay a stipend to an intern or apprentice that would help grow food for the farm stand and to learn urban farming at the same time.

Any takers? It’s prime summer internship time, after all.

Link to more on the intern idea, as well as a complete wrap-up of yesterday’s Free Farm Stand festivities.

Link to West Oakland’s City Slicker Farms.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Treat Street Treats