Of zukes and porches

Tomorrow is "Sneak Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day."

It's a sign of how late the growing season started this year that we don't even have our first zucchini yet.

If your garden is providing more generously than the pictured pitiful plant, consider donating the excess to someone who's less fortunate.

I recently spoke to a couple people who volunteer at a small church-run food pantry. Where they used to serve about a dozen people in critical need on any given day, they're now serving 40 or more. Multiply that by the ten food pantries in their city, and the numbers are shocking, and that's before you multiply the numbers by all the municipalities in their state (which isn't particularly large) and then by all the states in our country.

Why not sneak an entire basket of food -- the good stuff, too, not just the things that grow in such abundance that no one's excited about them -- onto the porch of a neighbor who recently lost her job or is struggling with medical bills or is worrying about how to pay for the kids' education? You'll be helping your community, and you'll still have all the fun of sneaking around in the dark.