Editor,
As all transplants know, the first winter snow storm is heavenly, but the next 10 are less so. So it is with harvest time in many of Laguna’s residential orchards. What a joy frolicking through oranges, grapefruit, lemons, limes or apples. What a feeling of pride gracing your kitchen, dining room, hallway, bedrooms and bathrooms with bowls of fruit! And your gazebo, laundry room and kid’s pre-school classroom.
Before long, however, your infernal trees keep bursting long after the novelty has worn off. You long for a trip to Pavilions to buy a manageable number of lemons, maybe three. You remember with fondness walking to your car without stepping on something rotting, not to mention swatting tiny flying things.
What to do? We have a wonderful suggestion. Share your bounty with our shoppers at the Laguna Food Pantry! They will be as happy and grateful as you were after your first day’s harvest. And if it is too difficult to gather your fruit, call us and we’ll come get it.
Thanks from our all-volunteer staff.
Andy Siegenfeld, Laguna Beach
The author is chair of the Laguna Food Pantry.
