By Slanted Light

Thanks! *g* Now I just need to get planting! The garden is shared with my landlords - in fact it's their garden of course, but they share it with me. They're older, and finding it very hard to keep things in control, so I'm trying to help a bit with that.

And not a silly question at all! Food saving is basically saying food that the supermarkets haven't sold, and would otherwise have to throw away because it's reached its use-by or best-before date. Of course most of it still perfectly good, and our village store, which is a Co-op, has a scheme where you can apply to collect the food to do something useful with it in the community. So I did that at the end of last year, and after alot of faffing got started in March. I'd go and collect the food in the evening, walk across the road and lay it out on a folding table, with the help of volunteers, and people could come and take whatever they could use to stop it being wasted. Obviously in lockdown we can't do that, but it seemed stupid for the food to be thrown away again when people need it more than ever now, so I'm organising it to be delivered to people's doorsteps after collection instead. Even in our small village there are people who have been laid off work, or are self-employed and work has dried up, or who can't get to the shops themselves now (and can't afford much anyway when someone else goes for them). So the food saving is really proving its importance now...