As a result, Mr. Papadopoulos came up with a plan to offer the food at a low price by advertising it on the farm's Facebook status page on Sunday nights.

　　"We're going to put ‘Breaking news! Crop mob. Two pallets of Bloomfield Farms' organic veggies, $150 dollars per pallet.'"

　　　　The deals were open to anyone using the social media website. One week, several homeowners in a neighboring community bought the vegetables. Another week, the buyers were a group of friends.

　　Nick Papadopoulos began using social media after he went to work on a farm belonging to his wife's father. One night he began thinking about the issue of wasted food when he could not find a place to donate 32 cases of organic broccoli. He ended up giving some of the food to chickens and using the rest to make fertilizer.

　　"I don't believe we should let it go to waste. I believe we should share it, donate it, whatever it takes to get it out there, and if possible - as farmers - we would like to recover a small portion of our cost."

　　After his success of using Facebook, Mr. Papadopoulos helped to set up a website called cropmobster.com. It is a place where people involved with food production, feeding the hungry and those who want to buy locally-grown food can find surplus produce.

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