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In the kitchen at the Lower Montague Women’s Institute, volunteers with the Down East Food Collective regularly get together to prepare and cook more than 100 servings of freshly made sauces and pasta for Montague’s community fridge.
They do this once a month to improve food insecurity on Prince Edward Island, and have been organizing monthly community cook days to fill the food pantry at the Montague Christian Church since April.
The volunteers work to fill the fridge first, then start filling up the freezer, said Tina Ratcliffe, one of the collective’s founding members.
The meals are usually gone within 24 to 48 hours, she said.
“It brings great joy for me personally to be able to give back to the community,” she said.
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“When you see people using the fridge and taking and sustaining themselves by the meals that we have prepared, it’s phenomenal.”
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