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What happens to the food giveaways when the harvest ends?
Read full article: What happens to the food giveaways when the harvest ends?“Our fear is, once harvest season is over in the next couple of months, we’re not going to have these great items, like green beans, the tomatoes you see behind me,” says Paco Velez, CEO of Feeding South Florida. All the wonderful things that South Florida grows — we’re going to start running low.”Velez says the organization’s supply of nonperishables is already dwindling. “We’re running short on peanut butter, we’re running short on canned tuna, canned chicken,” he says. Velez says Feeding South Florida has become a 24-hour operation and has seen its distribution triple the past couple weeks. “It’s not OK if Feeding South Florida runs out food, because families are truly relying on us to meet the entirety of their needs.”HOW TO HELPhttps://feedingsouthflorida.org/http://farmshare.org/how-to-help/INFO ON FUTURE FOOD DISTRIBUTIONShttps://feedingsouthflorida.org/covid19/http://farmshare.org/food-distributions/