Volunteering: I just helped deliver a mammoth summer load of vegetables to the community fridge

The community fridge where I volunteer by bringing food (and doof, sadly) stores would otherwise through away for anyone to take recently coordinated a deal with the Union Square farmers market to pick up what vendors don’t sell.

Half a dozen of us picked up and delivered our first load. Several of us made two trips. It was the most volume and I’d say highest quality of any load I helped deliver. These pictures don’t show how much and how glorious the produce was, all local.

Redistributing food so it doesn’t go to waste solves an immediate problem. I still can’t see how to solve the systemic problem of overproducing. In the meantime, at least people got to eat this food instead of it being composted (although people who pick up at the fridge tend to prefer packaged food and doof).