The Arroyo Time Bank, Altadena Heritage, and RIPE Altadena are hosting a conversation with state and federal agriculture officials about the Oriental Fruit Fly quarantine affecting Altadena and surrounding areas on Sat., Jan. 15, 10-11 AM. 

Arroyo Time Bank is working to create a neighborhood fruit-picking and processing project that can help utilize the excess fruit in our area in compliance with the quarantine regulations. If you have excess citrus or other quarantined fruit you would like to share, please come to this meeting to learn how to do so while complying with the quarantine regulations. Officials from the US Department of Agriculture  and California Department of Food and Agriculture will join this community meeting to answer questions about the quarantine and about the paperwork needed to complete in order to make community food programs compliant with quarantine rules. Come and participate in making Altadena a model for how communities under quarantine can eliminate food waste. Please contact Kristin Petherbridge (littlelief@hotmail.com) or Gloria Putnam (zanegreyestate-altadena@yahoo.com) with any questions or for more information.

The meeting will be held at a private home at 2485 Marengo.  Please enter this private residence through the pedestrian gate.