Dry skies forecast harder times for 2 million of the poorest Californians. Two headlines from Sunday blogs tell separate but inevitably cause-and-effect stories.
#1 is “California’s Thirsting Farmland,” from The New York Times. It reminds us that recent rains are good “only to keep the dust down,” and 800,000 acres of fallowed croplands are bringing food that costs more, is harder to find and probably not as safe.
Headline #2 is “Food Banks Drying Up, Too,” from the San Francisco Chronicle. “Food banks are at the lowest rung of the food-distribution pecking order,” the blogger writes, as Central Valley programs brace for lines that in 2009 began at 3am in Firebaugh and Mendota. Getting there late meant going home empty-handed.
Please read both — invest a few minutes — and then decide what you can do.
http://nyti.ms/1ms4sSS & http://bit.ly/1eX5rdV
The Gualco Group, Inc. works with the California Assn. of Food Banks, the California Board of Food & Agriculture and others to improve free food distribution through the California Food Waste Roundtable.