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Nonprofit that normally saves excess farm goods from waste is collecting unused ingredients from now-closed restaurants to feed the needy
OCEANSIDE — When O’side Kitchen Collaborative launched in June 2019, its chief mission was to use the city’s newly built Green Oceanside Kitchen complex to recover, store and repurpose unwanted produce and other food items that might otherwise end up in landfills. Nine months later, the pandemic hit. Within a matter of days, the nonprofit foundation reimagined how it could use the city’s large, state-of-the-art commercial kitchen to feed Oceanside’s most vulnerable population during the public health crisis. Since March 2020, OKC has prepared and helped deliver more than 400,000...