Rancho de la Libertad<p>Scored a truck bed full of "waste" produce from the Joshua Tree farmer's market. All of this, because it's ugly, would be thrown away. Some of the farmers compost, but many don't -- which is insane to me, but most of these farmers are from semi-small farms that are still run in a relatively industrialized kind of way. </p><p>But we're thrilled to take it home. All of this is divided up and will be given to our chickens. What is too bad for them to eat gets composted, but we like to let them compost most of it for us - they're better at it, and we rely less on the feed supplier the more we can feed them scraps. </p><p>If you have a local market, try asking for the uglies. Most vendors will have carrot tops, watermelon rinds, apple cores, and the like from putting out samples and pulling the unwanted greens off of popular veggies. Fruit sellers often have "seconds": bruised or ugly fruit they aren't allowed to sell. Our fruit guy told us their farm PAYS MONEY to ship the ugly fruit to dairy farms. </p><p>Even if you don't have animals to eat it, most of the ugly food is edible. You could use or distribute the free produce. I jam, can, and dry most of the fruit and throw the worst of it to the chickens. Sad veggies can become nutritious stock. You get the idea. There is no reason for this to go to a landfill and create methane. (If you have some time and a little land, you could feed a pig on extras like this and then have enough meat to feed a family of four for a few months after a year). Small steps towards sovereignty -- this is what we need.</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Food</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DigIt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DigIt</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/FoodWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FoodWaste</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Compost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Compost</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/FarmersMarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarmersMarket</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/EcoFriendly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcoFriendly</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sovereignty</span></a></p>