Free potatoes and purple sprouting broccoli are on offer to any community groups that can use them.
Sharon Goodyer, from Our Kitchen on the Isle of Thanet, and the Kent Gleaners have picked the produce today (April 12) in Wingham.
There are approximately 400 kilos of potatoes and 200 kilos of broccoli.
Kent Gleaning Network coordinator Carrie Eales said: “Gleaning is such a wonderful demonstration of community cooperation. Today we’ve got members of several community groups and volunteers from Cummins, a local engineering firm, all working together to rescue great produce from going to waste.
“Thanks to Sharon at Our Kitchen, this food will be distributed to charities throughout Thanet, ensuring vulnerable people have access to nutritious fresh food. This veg is perfectly fresh and nutritious, its only crime is to be the wrong size, shape or slightly too ripe for the strict cosmetic standards of commercial buyers.
“Thanks to today’s food waste heroes this produce will travel rapidly from farm to fork and will be feeding Kent’s most vulnerable people by tomorrow.”
Find more on Kent Gleaners at https://feedbackglobal.org/campaigns/gleaning-network/
Email Sharon on [email protected] or find the Our Kitchen page here
