Santa Clara County is taking a unique approach to prevent food waste: bring it directly to the people who need it most.

Last year, the county started a food recovery program to install commercial refrigerators in affordable housing developments and stock them with produce and ready-to-eat meals. It partnered with nonprofit Martha’s Kitchen to deliver the food twice a week. Now residents in five affordable housing sites — including San Jose’s Curtner Studios and Iamesi Village and three others in Mountain View and Palo Alto — can have fresh food right at their fingertips. More sites are being established at no ongoing cost to the county.

“If you make healthy food available, you make (being) healthy easy,” Martha’s Kitchen Executive Director Bill Lee told San José Spotlight. “It’s part of

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