“In summer 2009 Mark Desvaux and Dan Spencer were struggling with the same problem [of surplus crops].

They rang East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice at Milton, and discovered the charity would be delighted to take unwanted crops to use in their kitchen.

A donation centre was set up at their allotment site, and by the end of the summer £1,000 worth of food had been collected.

Mark and Dan set up the website Foodshare, and schools, allotments and churches around the county, and further afield, have signed up.”

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cambridgeshire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8909000/8909052.stm