Giving Away Tens of Thousands of Free Meals A Year Is Our LIFESTYLE, Not Just a Holiday Observance!
Some people like to do good deeds from time to time. We are grateful for that, because EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS!
We know organizations that make a huge deal about giving away food to the homeless on Thanksgiving or Christmas. They even do big fund raisers taking donations to make it possible.
Here at The GOE, it's an everyday part of our life. Every day we feed free meals, give away clothing, shelter people and MOST IMPORTANTLY EDUCATE people.
You can see a post @quinneaker made on Christmas about waking up early not to open presents and eat consume but instead feeding $3,000 worth of free food. He is our founder, our unwavering inspiration, and the vortex through which this is all possible.
Then one day later, he made a post about FEEDING MORE PEOPLE and what a "New Paradigm Santa" IS!
We sometimes make posts about giving away free food, but if we were to make a post every time we gave away a free meal we would have 50 posts a day......
So instead of making 50 posts a day about giving away free food we are just making this post right now to remember the FACT that we are feeding 40,000 free meals a year.
We will make posts more often about the free food we are feeding every day in hopes to inspire, yet we will still refrain from making the 50+ plus posts a day....
Thanks for all your support! Your support helps us help more people and there is no account we are aware of that helps more people every day and every year than @gardenofeden.
Food is an honored & elemental part of our daily life in community. You can learn more about our unique, intimate, and super sustainable relationship with food here!
We are happy & grateful to share our abundance - there's more than enough of everything! If you or anyone you know wants or needs food, contact us - we will give you free food, no questions asked. We make this offer every single day, because we are here to help one and all.
Because we stand in support of the greatest good & especially the revolutionary potential of this platform, we've never cashed out any $teem or even powered down - which is good for everyone! This means that when you upvote our posts, you are increasing the value of your own $teem wealth as well!
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wow amazing ..
Well done. I hope you will find the support of the community
Great job, guys
Really great to see this post get some attention and support. That is one way we can all be a part of the solution by supporting projects, organizations and people who are being the change and creating solutions.
YES! Everyone can do SOMETHING to make the world a better place, even if it means contributing resources rather than supplying the manual labor to achieve results. And the beautiful thing about Steemit is that upvotes are FREE!!!! It's not actually costing anyone anything to contribute to a worthy cause!!!
Hi @gardenofeden! So inspiring to meet you here.
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Hi @earthnation! Thanks for the info & support! Will look into your initiative. What do you have in mind for partnership?
I thank you so much in the names of these people. You are such amazing people!👍
thank you too :)
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Everyone can BE the change in this world!
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Amazing to find someone(s) working to feed people AND teach them how to sustain their life in alternative ways. I like your pictures, too! You look - genuine, and genuinely happy!
Anything is possible, and there's more than enough of everything! These are truths we want to remind everyone about!!!
Amazing people doing great work for fellow human beings. Blessings to you and yours!
Blessings to you too, @team101!
Matthew and I talk often about how we plan to use our homestead to give back to the community as well. I will have to takes notes on how you are able to give so much. Until then, we donate to our local food bank at the check out of our weekly grocery shop and send a monthly donation to another charitable organization as well. This year, Matthew's mom had the idea to donate a goat to a village in lui of gifts which we were more than happy to get on board with.
If you don't hear this enough already, thank you for your generosity and for encouraging others to give back as well. We all need these reminders from day to day. -Aimee
We hear it but its never to much!
Thanks for the recognition and support!
So great to know that you are doing something to help people and the world be a happier and healthier place.
Yes donating goats, seeds education etc to help peopple be more self reliant is way better than canned goods but do what you can as you can.
Also just remember that many charitable organizations that take donations are not very efficient with the funds including lots of salaries and expenses for the organization that don't even help the people the organization is saying they help. Some do get a lot done with it and they are worth donating to for sure!
Blessings~*~
Great points! We are very specific with the organizations we choose to support for that very reason. We used to donate canned food but switched to monetary so they have greater access to fresh produce and meat. We truly are looking forward to getting our homestead operational so we can do nore good ourselves and rely less on other organizations. I hope you keep posting about your community work so we can learn more! -A
We're here every day!! Happy to share the wealth of knowledge we have, and so glad to hear that you are inspired to make a difference in your corner of the globe as well. Let us know if there is a specific aspect of sustainability and homesteading you would like to know more about, and we might be able to address it in a post for you!
Wow! Thank you! We will definitely keep in touch as we set up our property. This is exciting. :) -A
We're excited too!!!
If you are able to do these things from your homesteading...Thats even more beautiful, dude... You also, be very proud!!
Thank you
It's fantastically rewarding work to feed folk less fortunate, I do my best as well I am homeless in England, In England there are over 1,000,000 children living in temporary accommodation & the number of homeless seems to increase daily from what I can see with my own eyes. I have a tent & a thermal sleeping bag & that makes me more fortunate than most.
I spent a night in a homeless shelter once it was like a hut really with donated sleeping bags and mats they opened at 11pm & closed at 8am they had a strict set of rules No drugs or alcohol anyone smelling of booze was refused entry & the night I spent there gave me an idea that I put into fruition.
I knew the shops & bakers wouldn't turn over out of date produce to me but I also knew that they had plenty of food that got thrown away at the end of every day that was going to waste. What I needed was someone to do the representing part for me they were never going to listen to a hobo so I went to all the local churches. It took a while I wanted the vicars not the parish, I figured a vicar was the right kind of person to do the deal playing on the Christian spirit a bit, I thought they would have a hard time saying No to me I was a door to door salesman for years & put that old skill back into practice. I wrote the spiel for them in advance, It took me to visit about a couple of dozen churches most of which I never got to meet the man in charge but in the end I got my result. I now deliver food & hygiene products like shampoo, toothpaste & deodorant to on average about 35 families with children in temporary accommodation & also supply & sometimes even cook for an all night cafe for all the homeless in the area to have a hot meal.
I have a great deal of respect for anyone that helps out the homeless most people don't understand that they are probably only one paycheck from being in the same position themselves there are many reasons people end up there.
Well done to your organization for doing what you do keep it up & expand if you can. please give every individual you have working there my extended gratitude & love from England.
Greetings and thanks for the acknowledgement and support.
Also thank you for doing something to help improve the world. We can all do something and honestly if everyone just did a little bit to help each other and make the world a better place we wouldn't have problems or at least hardly any especially the ones we currently have.
That's great to hear you're doing what you can! It's a really pathetic state of affairs here in the US - in many parts including our DFW metroplex it's actually illegal to help the homeless. For us, that's all the more reason to serve our fellow man!
My tent is against the law in England but they will never find it, I was lucky enough to find somewhere that nobody ever goes it's finding that perfect pitch. I don't know the law in the states it may vary but I know it here I wonder how similar it is.
We have Laws & we have Acts & they are very different although most people are unaware of it.
If we are stopped for breaching an Act it is the Law enforcers job to make us admit our guilt to it, If we don't admit it or even if we do not agree with the Act there isn't a thing they can do about it absolutely nothing.
What they will try to do & they are trained to do is get you to admit your guilt, They will say things like "Come on you know what you have done it will look better on you if you admit it", Its' a trick, If you go along with it you are done for.
I know this for a fact as I was a law enforcement officer & have been through the training of the powers of arrest PACE - Police & powers of arrest Act 1984.
Just because a law enforcement officer tells you that you are a criminal you should in no way assume he is right, His job is to make revenue for issuing fines he is a glorified salesman in most cases you will find he works for a private company NOT the public if you dig deeper & know your rights. In fact if he is wearing a police uniform there is a very good chance that he is actually breaking the law by 'Impersonating a police officer' although you would need a very good barrister to sue him for it as the courts operate the same system, They too are very often private companies seeking revenue for issuing fines & enslaving people in prisons for very cheap slave labour.
If you look into what a prison actually manufactures as a product to be sold to the private sector & see where the money ends up you will see this. It doesn't go back into the system it goes into a Fat cats pocket. They abolished the slavery on the plantations & just found another way to do it. That's why I strongly suspect that a high percentage of African Americans are in prison.
Yes we are well aware of the pathetic state of the "justice" system and police. You obviously have intimate experience with them, as do we after they sent a SWAT raid on our people, and one reason we encourage everyone to truly know their rights.
QUESTION EVERYTHING!! ESPECIALLY if it is coming from an "officer", that's even more incentive NOT to believe the things they say. The "system" is very broken, and very much about making money.
Yes I have very intimate experience with them, It was my first career I did it for 4 years so it was more of an intimate experience with myself. They don't hassle me at all my tent is well hidden from public view. I don't beg or sit on the streets drinking so I'm of no concern to them. Vagrancy is an offence in England but they will only pull that as an excuse to arrest someone because they are being a nuisance. We have good & bad police here some are the salt of the Earth some are like Hitler. The reason I left that fold was because I didn't agree with most of the laws of the land. I used to get told off for being too lenient if I didn't personally see something as an offense I wouldn't enforce it. Back then it was a no no. Although these days I hear they actually train them to be a bit more like I was. In America I hear these days they are like a cross between the KGB in the 60s & the Gestapo in the 40s.
Keep up the great work, and the delicious food photos :D
Thanks for the encouragement!
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