David in Normandy wrote:
A good idea if someone could arrange it, would be to have some local
drop-off points where people with surplus vegetables could leave their
produce for collection by one of those charities associated with helping
to feed the elderly or those living in poverty with no garden themselves.

Hmm, there's a UK organisation who make a thing about going out collecting
surplus unwanted fruit from garden trees and distributing it to Worthy
Places.

The name of the organisation slips my mind, and I can't think offhand what
to google for, but your google-foo may be better than mine right now if you
were interested.