Harvest Festival

Talk about two sides of the same coin!  Three years ago I was posting about the fact that at a Harvest Festival service you were far more likely to see gifts of tinned and packaged food rather than fresh produce, and that some people found that sad. Now today we have a news item saying that, although more people are now growing their own and so more fresh stuff is being donated, churches and schools are finding it difficult to get rid of it, because charities and food banks are refusing to accept it for "hygiene" reasons, whatever those are.  Can't win, can you?