RE: Food is free project on going. cooperation proven.
What a wonderful project!
Where I live we don't even have community gardens. But in a nearby town, a university town with a good source of young, strong labor (students) there is a community charity that will come to your garden and pick whatever you want them to and then they distribute it at their food bank.
This benefits so many, especially people who have planted fine gardens and fruit trees over the years, but as they become older and their children move away, and the trees get larger and more productive, they just can't keep up and the fruit goes to waste. Plant a few cucumbers or tomatoes or squash and they can quickly get out of hand! So they call the charity and it's win-win-win all the way around.
This isn't a rural area and there is no agricultural acreage to speak of, but it's an idea that other communities could do.
That sounds superb, may I ask are you city bound, as in living in one? I used too, I think to be honest I could not again, I like the quiet, the calm, and the animals now, hence why I live in the middle of nowhere remarkable, and do not speak much of the local lingo, it suits me fine.
Yes, I live in a city, a small one in Southern California near San Bernardino. When my grandparents arrived here (1920's) there was nothing but miles of citrus groves and my uncle had a large chicken ranch. Trees are gone, smelly chickens are gone. Now it's miles of tract homes and industrial buildings. Very little open acreage left. One of our neighbors had a few chickens but someone complained and they're gone. Loud parties seem to be okay though.