The disposal of truckloads of apparently edible oranges at a Metro Vancouver transfer station is highlighting concerns about food waste.
Sonia Rivest, who works as a gardener, began to see the massive piles of oranges show up at the North Vancouver transfer station in early November.
“I just assumed it was fruit that either had gone bad or had some kind of biological issue,” she told Global News.
“It was shocking. Maybe even the next week I saw it again, and I was like, ‘OK, maybe there is a really big amount that went poor and could not be sold or used safely,’ again assuming there was a good reason this was happening.”
As far as Rivest has been able to discern, that wasn’t the case.
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New favorite thing about writing this arranged marriage AU: I can be as self-indulgent with historical detail as I want! 🤓🥹🥰
That's one of those things that it's easy to know intellectually but hard to internalize until the actual writing process. Hope y'all are ready to learn about the following representative sample of topics in excruciating detail:
Sauna construction
Food preservation (subtitle: I just think it's neat that borts is more nutritious than modern field rations)
The internal social politics of patrician families in Late Republican Rome*
Horse archery
Archeology at Pompeii*
Guerilla warfare and supply lines
Aqueducts
✨CLOAKS✨
The Battle of Teutoburg Forest*
For now I'm choosing to blame most of this on Stede's autistic coding (cough my own projection cough) but that's really just an excuse. An excuse I'm thrilled to hide behind for my own sanity in the decade it's gonna take me to finish this thing if I continue to keep getting so distracted by research/inventing mythology that will inform the worldbuilding but not make it into the fic with any actual detail.
And you can't stop me!!!!
*this is more inspiration than anything because it's not set in our world and therefore not in actual Rome but you you know what I mean
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In Metro Vancouver, where land is at a premium and the cost of living continues to increase, a group of gardeners are using public and private land to feed their community — part of a plan to promote a sharing economy, and empower people to design, build and maintain community spaces.
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Vancouver Food Runners don't sell sneakers, but the registered charity's volunteers do run around town, picking up produce that's about to go bad and bringing it to food banks and other non-profits supporting people in need.
Executive director Michelle Reining says amidst the current affordability crisis, which is driving up the cost of housing, child care, gas and groceries, the needs are greater than ever.
By her estimate, more than one in 10 households in Vancouver are struggling with food security.
"Every week it's something a little bit different so there's some creativity," she told CBC on Friday, pointing to a pallet of grapes, tomatoes, potatoes, watermelon and other produce donated by B.C. meal delivery service Fresh Prep.
"When this goes to the organization, the chefs can take it in and they're going to create different meals with this, create different food hampers. This is perfectly good food that will be given back to the community." [...]
She says the goal is to tackle food waste and food security in one go, using a website and smart phone app to make it easy for businesses to sign up to contribute, and for potential community partners to reach out.
"We're part of a wide range of organizations in Vancouver doing this kind of work," she said. [...]
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