On a chilly January day, worn-out white Christmas lights continue to hang above green and black plastic crates that are neatly stacked outside a storefront.
Carrots, swedes, onions, sprouts, and tomatoes are among the many fresh fruits and vegetables that fill each. Others are loaded with pears, oranges, potatoes, and bread.
Anyone who happens to go by may do it for free. Amazingly, however, a lot of it is still unaltered. The local soup kitchen will ultimately get the majority of this free food.
Meanwhile, the sprouts will be given to the horses at the riding school, and the carrots will be sent to a donkey refuge.
As the town’s food bank opens for 2025, we are on the North Kent coast, where savage North Sea winds are blowing down Margate High Street. A healthy diet is “increasingly unaffordable,”