Give-and-Take Produce Exchange
A Community Space to Share or Pick Up Fresh Produce
Do you or someone you know have extra fruits, veggies, or eggs from your garden or farm that you don’t want to go to waste? Or maybe you’re looking for some free, fresh produce to bring home?
Starting June 10, 2025, MDI residents will have the opportunity to participate in the Give-and-Take Produce Exchange, a community-driven give-and-take produce trailer managed by Healthy Acadia’s Downeast Gleaning Initiative and located at Peggy Rockefeller Farm in Bar Harbor (538 Norway Drive - accessible via the Crooked Road entrance). This space allows community members to donate excess garden or farm produce or take home fresh food as needed - free of charge.
Using this give-and-take model, our Downeast Gleaning Initiative aims to reduce food waste and expand community access to fresh, local produce. The trailer will be open for anyone to drop off fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, or other homegrown items. In return, community members are welcome to take whatever they need, ensuring that homegrown food does not go to waste while helping neighbors.
This program is slated to run through the end of the harvest season.
How It Works
Donations: Drop off fresh eggs, vegetables, fruits, or other homegrown food items.
Pick-ups: Anyone is free to take what they need, so long as they bring their own container.
Getting Here: To access the produce trailer at 538 Norway Drive, visitors should enter via the Crooked Road entrance and follow the signs marked, "Healthy Acadia Produce."
For More Information
Contact Molly Hetzel by phone at (207) 406-2614, or by email at molly.hetzel@healthyacadia.org.
Let's come together to reduce food waste and share our abundant harvests with our neighbors. Thank you!
Follow @downeastgleaning on Instagram for the latest updates on available produce and other gleaning efforts across the region.
Updated June 26, 2025.