Incredible Edible Merchantville expanded their efforts to ensure community food security by making fresh home-grown food accessible for pick up or drop off through a produce exchanges at
Rasta Kitchen, 618 West Maple
Avenue and Eclipse Brewing, 25 East Park Avenue in Merchantville. Both businesses offer easy access to free locally grown veggies and herbs - tomatoes, squash, peppers, cucumbers, rosemary, basil and oregano. Rasta Kitchen is open 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Eclipse Brewing is open weekdays 4:00-9:00 p.m. and weekends 12:00-8:00 p.m. Making fresh home-grown food accessible to address community food security is one of 15 small action projects that the IE group has initiated in town since 2018, including bi-weekly donations to the Dolores Clark Food Pantry at Grace Church. Stop by these exchanges, take what you need, and if you grew too much, feel free to bring your donations!
