From now until the first hard freeze in N California, members of our church will bring their surplus vegies, fruits, lemons/oranges and ? to church on Sunday.
There will be at least one table loaded with fresh/free goodies. Often there are more than one table loaded with the goodies.
My grand parents had about an acre+ of garden. They would put their extras on a box out by their driveway/street for neighbors or anyone, who was hungry to take what they wanted. This went on during the depression, WWII and the Korean War.
In their later years, Grand Dad had a stroke and their garden became minimal. Their neighbors built a nice wooden box with trays and put it on their front porch. It would be filled up with goodies donated by the neighbors. It was payback for decades of my grandparents’s generosity.
My grandmother had a few dozen hens, and she had a small egg and fresh chicken business (customers killed and cleaned their own chickens). She was a good Dutch business lady, however, her soft side made sure that deserving families got a chicken and eggs if they couldn’t afford them.
I spent a summer with my grandmother, who was a widow at that time. We never had to buy veggies, fruit, eggs and many other items.