Too Many Vegetables in Your Garden? There's an App for That!

If you find that your vegetable garden this year turns out to be a little too bountiful, the solution may be as close as your cell phone. AmpleHarvest.org, a charitable organization dedicated to linking gardeners with extra produce to almost 3500 food pantries throughout the country, released a free iPhone app last year that can quickly tell you which nearby food banks can use your surplus harvest. You can get the same info on the iPhone app that you can find on AmpleHarvest.org's web site--location and phone number of the food pantry, days and times they are open to receive donations, and additional grocery items they may be in need of (in case you find a great sale at the grocery store, for example).

And AmpleHarvest.org will soon be releasing an Android app that does the same thing as the iPhone app. I love it when technology and gardening cross-pollinate!

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