#food-rescue

#food-rescue

Would you like to do something good for your city, and eat well while you're at it? Berlin's newest dining initiative, "Mit Sinn Serviert" (Served with Purpose), makes that as easy as ordering your next coffee or bowl of soup. The campaign, newly relaunched by Berliner Tafel, invites restaurants, cafés, and snack bars all over the city to dedicate one item from their menu to support people in need.

Every day, tons of fresh, healthy food goes to waste while families go hungry,

Even apart from the altruistic aspect of the work, Fruit Rescue's gleaning events - which are open to anyone who signs up through the group's Eventbrite page - are a fun, family-friendly way to spend a morning. The aforementioned peach-picking session didn't wind up happening (backyard fruit can be a fickle enterprise), but my nine-year-old daughter and I drove out to Martinez's Alhambra Valley on an impossibly clear-skied Tuesday morning to harvest about a dozen Bartlett pear trees in a tidy, picturesque frontyard orchard.