Food Banks Finding Aid in Bounty of Backyard

From New York Times, By Patricia Leigh Brown
Published on September 13, 2009

For the St. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance in Phoenix, the abundance means a brigade of citrus volunteers from January through March, picking 1.4 million pounds of oranges and grapefruit from Sun City and Surprise. The fruit reaches thousands of people, from those at domestic violence shelters in Tempe to those on the Havasupai Indian Reservation in the Grand Canyon. Keep reading.

Jim Wilson/The New York Times

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