THATCHER — Produce on Wheels Without Waste returns this Saturday.
The program, administered locally by the Safford Lions Club, makes available healthy food at a low cost. For a $15 donation, participants get about 70 pounds of fresh produce.
“We started the farmer’s market-style this year; it started in January and it’s going quite well,” said Marion Hastings with the Safford Lions Club.
Pow Wow takes place in the parking lot of Home Depot, from 8-11 a.m. or while supplies last. Participants are asked to enter at the north entrance of Home Depot and drive along the back aisle to the pick-up area.
Pre-orders are available for $20 by clicking here.
Any produce remaining at the close of Pow Wow is shared with Our Neighbor’s Farm and Pantry, the St. Vincent DePaul food bank and Mt. Graham Safe House. Any produce found unfit for human consumption is sold to area farmers and ranchers for animal feed, so there is no waste in the program.
Pow Wow is overseen by Borderlands Produce Rescue. The goal is to prevent excess produce from going to waste and the Pow Wow program saves about 32 million pounds of produce each year.
