Food scarcity! Now I’ve got your attention, let’s talk about… oh. Food scarcity. Really?
Sure we can’t talk about a videogame instead? How about Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator?
Nope, we’re going to tear our eyes away from these delightful dads for a few minutes so we can tell you about an excellent new community garden fundraiser to help fight food scarcity. Maybe that will finally impress Damian…
Let me introduce you to something far less heartbreaking. Meet $eed Money.
$eed money isn’t just a typo I’ve subconsciously made because of all the money I’ve blown on hot dad dates. Of course not. That would be silly. They’re actually a Maine-based nonprofit which provides grants, crowdfunding opportunities and training to food garden projects around the world.
One of the campaigns they’re currently running is tackling food deserts. A food desert is when a community lacks either affordable or nearby healthy food options, forcing them to travel great lengths, often at unaffordable costs, just to get a balanced diet.
Now I could try and explain it in our usual hilarious/obnoxious/thirsty way. But why don’t we just watch this excellent video of Alex Haraus explaining it infinitely more clearly? Let’s!
As Alex just explained without a single laboured reference to Dream Daddy (each to their own) a great way to combat food deserts is through Community Gardens. Not only do they become a fantastic source of fresh, healthy food, they’re also good for the environment, encourage community togetherness, help mental and physical health, and would be the perfect place to take a flaming-hot father on a date (hypothetical example).
Here at Climate Replay, we don’t want to just fill your weekends with doom and gloom. We like solutions! And hot dads! But mainly solutions! On average in the United States, it costs about $1000 to get a community garden going. You might have noticed that that number is $999 more than my headline promised. You might be shrieking “CLICKBAIT!” from your frothing-mouth right now while planning to dox me out of revenge (don’t waste your time – as this article is proving, I’m way too open about what I’m into. Send me dads please).
But the reason we said it cost only a dollar is because – it does! One thing that makes this $eed Money fundraiser interesting is that they’ve capped donations at one dollar. You CAN’T donate more than a dollar, even if you want to. This may seem unnecessarily limiting, but they’re making a great point here. You don’t help people by having more money (extreme wealth inequality, after all, is one of the reasons we’re in this food desert mess in the first place). You help by getting more people involved. Donate your dollar then spread the word! Just like we’re doing! Not that we’re bragging or anything (do you think Damien noticed? Did he?!)
At time of writing they’ve raised $441. If you donate and tell your friends, and they tell some friends, and they tell some other friends, and those friends say “go away, I’m playing Dream Daddy” but then they feel bad for snapping at you, so they donate out of guilt, and then tell their friends, who also pause Dream Daddy and donate… well we could get a garden funded in no time!
To make your donation or spread the word, click this very sentence to be taken to the fundraiser. You can also find more info about community gardens and all sorts of great initiatives that $eed Money are supporting on that site too.
Climate Replay is not affiliated with Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator or $eed Money. We’re just creepy fans of both.
