This is an interesting link

[conuly]

About the surprising difficulty in donating "unpretty" produce to the poor. The part about half of food grown in the US being wasted has to be hyperbole, though. I know we waste a lot, but surely it isn't that much...?

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[conuly]

You can use lemons to make lemon meringue pie.

As far as California goes....

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/12/fallen_fruit_1.php

[leora.livejournal.com]

*nods* And I'm fairly sure people do something similar in the general bay area. Although the persimmons can't be scavenged, nor could the lemons or oranges, because they don't hang over. In fact, you'd need to get into a gated section of our backyard to access them.

And while I could have made pies. it's not like it's something I could have done often. A project like that would have pretty much been what I did with several days worth of energy, which simply isn't practical. And nobody else I lived with baked. However, now we just have the persimmons on our property, and hopefully we can get them to people who want them.

They don't have as much of a growing season, from what I can tell online, so it shouldn't be as much of an issue. The lemon tree had fruit all year round. Large, beautiful, abundant fruit. Which meant we always had lemons, but dealing with surplus was also a constant issue. I expect the persimmons to only fruit in the winter (what we call winter here, anyway).