Harvest Challenge
The Harvest Challenge
Issued by the Wingeleth Family
runs November 1 - January 20, 2021
This Harvest Challenge is issued in the spirit of Thanksgiving. It is all about sharing the bounty of the food grown in Carroll Park. Through the Composting, Food Scrap and Food Harvest Questionnaire, it also sets the stage for some exciting neighborhood composting and food sharing projects that we hope to launch in the next several months. Because this challenge extends over several months, it will overlap with our December Holiday Challenge and then bump head-on into our Tree Planting Challenge.
The Harvest Challenge is this: Choose from one to seven of the following items. Count up all your points from now until January 20th.
The Menu
1. Fill out the Composting, Food Scrap and Food Harvest Questionnaire and return to Liam's house at 330 Carroll Park West or Matt and Chelle's house at 367 Carroll Park East (5 points)
2. Plant something in your garden that results in food
(3 points per item, 5 bonus points for novice gardeners) Keep track of what you plant from November 1 to January 15
3. Commit to putting your excess harvest in neighbors produce box (3 points)
We will tell you locations of food boxes as they go up.
4. Put up your own produce box that your neighbors can use too (10 points)
We will contact anyone who checks this box to discuss how to do this
5. Donate excess produce to food rescue organization (3 points)
If you check this box, we’ll send you more information.
6. Donate non-perishable food to the church food box (2 points per item)
Keep track of # of items donate from November 15 to January 15.
7.Sign up for a compost workshop (5 Points)
We will contact anyone who checks this box to discuss schedul
Compost Workshop
January 9, 2021
Morning Session: 10am - 11am or
Afternoon Session: 3pm-4pm
Interested in composting? Come to a composting class in the south park hosted by Matt Wingeleth. He'll teach you about different ways to compost, and what it takes to set up your own system or share a system with your neighbors.
RSVP by texting Isaac at 562-725-9796 or Terri at 562-852-6300.
Matt Wingeleth's beautiful compost and smashed pumpkins from the Pumpkin Smashing event on November 1st.
Food Scrap, Compost and Food Harvest Survey
In preparation for our Fall Challenges, we are asking Carroll Parkers to complete this brief survey related to food harvest, food scraps and composting. We are hoping to launch some exciting ways to make a bigger collective impact on food waste through combining our efforts.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, "When we waste food, we also waste all the energy and water it takes to grow, harvest, transport, and package it. And if food goes to the landfill and rots, it produces methane—a greenhouse gas even more potent than carbon dioxide. About 11% of all the greenhouse gas emissions that come from the food system could be reduced if we stop wasting food. In the US alone, the production of lost or wasted food generates the equivalent of 37 million cars’ worth of greenhouse gas emissions."