Vacation help

Summer is the time when things are ripening in the garden as well as the time when folks go on vacation; what's a gardener to do, just let things fall off the vine, let the squash get huge and inedible, let the skunks and possums and raccoons have their way with the corn and cantaloupe and whatever else? No, of course not. Harvest Stewards will be happy to come by during a gardener's absence to pick whatever would otherwise go bad or to waste. And, it should go without saying, whatever is harvested will be donated to a local food charity.