Donate Your Extra Produce
Easton and the non-profit organization Food Rescue US are once again teaming up to ask residents to donate their excess summer produce to homebound seniors through the “Grow-A-Row” program.
Donations of homegrown produce or items purchased from Easton farms can be dropped off at Shaggy Coos Farm at 53 Center Road on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to noon, beginning July 8, for volunteers to deliver the food to Easton’s seniors.
The yearly program is sponsored by Daniel Simonelli, Easton municipal agent for the aging, Shaggy Coos, and Food Rescue US, which works to eliminate hunger and food waste and keep food out of landfills to reduce greenhouse gasses.
“The Grow-A-Row program, while not started by me, was something I was always looking to keep going each summer and it is a privilege to be able to do it for my second summer as Easton’s municipal agent,” said Daniel Simonelli, Municipal Agent for the Aging & Social Services Coordinator. “This program does a tremendous job of bringing community together to help the seniors in Easton. It not only brings fresh produce right to seniors, but it provides an aspect of socialization for recipients as it is a friendly face coming to their door each week with locally grown and donated produce.”
Easton residents have responded well to the “Grow-A-Row” program, now in its fourth year of operation. In 2022 volunteers donated an average of four pounds of fresh food each week to seniors.
