SANTA CLARA COUNTY is taking a unique approach to prevent food waste: bring it directly to the people who need it most.
Last year, the county started a food recovery program to install commercial refrigerators in affordable housing developments and stock them with produce and ready-to-eat meals. It partnered with nonprofit Martha’s Kitchen to deliver the food twice a week. Now residents in five affordable housing sites — including San Jose’s Curtner Studios and Iamesi Village and three others in Mountain View and Palo Alto — can have fresh food right at their fingertips. More sites are being established at no ongoing cost to the county.
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