Every Saturday afternoon around 2 p.m., Olga King arrives at the Playa Vista Farmers Market with two empty boxes in the backseat of her car.
She will leave the market with leftover fruits and vegetables donated from vendors to distribute to families in Inglewood, the community where she lives.
She has been a volunteer for FoodCycle LA for four years. Each day she drives to pickup locations, such as Whole Foods, Bristol Farms or Trader Joe’s, to collect surplus food. On this bright, sunny Saturday before Thanksgiving, she arrives at the weekly Playa Vista Farmers Market as it ends. She pulls her car to the curb on Village Drive where the market dead-ends at Millennium Drive, gets out, and ties the strings of her FoodCycle LA apron around her waist. …
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Jessica Koslow 