Magic City Harvest Perishes The Thought Of Perishable Food

Alabama News Center | September 23, 2017 @ 5:00 am

By Karim Shamsi-Basha

Next time you go out to dinner, try to figure out what happens to all the extra perishable food. Or when you’re at the grocery store, what about all the food nearing expiration that hasn’t been bought?

A group of people in Birmingham are doing something about this problem. Instead of the food ending in the garbage bin, it goes to agencies that feed the hungry.

“Magic City Harvest is a food recovery agency,’’ board member Carlye Dudgeon said. “We collect perishable food from grocery stores, schools and restaurants all over the Birmingham area and we deliver that food to over 30 agencies that feed people every day in Jefferson, Shelby and Talladega counties.”

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