Too many cucumbers or tomatoes growing all at once in your garden? Thought the kids would eat the apples you bought? Don’t throw good food into the compost (or worse, the garbage)! Instead, drop edible produce and herbs off at one of the many produce drop-off sites in Westport this summer. Your food donation will be brought to a food distribution center in the area, and will provide sustenance to food-insecure CT residents. Fresh, whole food is greatly appreciated and scarce at most food pantries.

More food is incinerated than any other single material in our everyday trash, constituting 22% of discarded municipal solid waste. Let’s do our part to change that. And if you want to help further, consider volunteering with Food Rescue US to pick up food from a supermarket, restaurant or other food establishment (school, hospital, cafeteria, etc) and bring it to a food distribution center.