Cole Kawaja’s Eagle Project

Life Scout Cole Kawaja’s Eagle project was to make sure that unused fruit and vegetables from backyard farms and orchards around Silicon Valley finds its way to food programs. So many homeowners in the area plant vines and trees with the best intentions, then can’t keep up with production and leave fruit to rot on the trees, or the vegetables on the vines. Over the course of several months, Cole located unpicked apples, limes, pears, figs, tomatoes, squash and persimmons in home gardens around Portola Valley, then rallied fellow scouts to help pick and deliver the goods to different distribution centers where they will feed families in need.