r/Assistance • u/perfectlyPositive • Apr 21 '24

META Growing extra vegetables this year

This isn’t a normal type of offer for assistance, but I know we have a lot of generous people that lurk here. Can we get a thread of people pledging to grow extra vegetables in their garden this year for the explicit purpose of donating to food banks? Everyone deserves fresh food.

I pledge: I planted two extra tomatoes (one Roma, one cherry), and two extra green beans for the purpose of donating.

Here is a website that can connect growers with food pantries that accept fresh produce near them: https://ampleharvest.org/find-pantry/

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u/Justakatttt REGISTERED Apr 21 '24

I always have extra, and I donate to my neighbors/ buy nothing group.

About 3 weeks ago I had people come by to take some extra tomato plants I had that popped up from last year.

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u/perfectlyPositive Apr 21 '24

Volunteer tomatoes are the best!