This is so sad, and has happened here. A poultryman about 5 miles from here keeps a refrigerator and an honesty cup on a table beside it in the porch to his large (locked) coop. He keeps several closed flocks with lavish runs.
People stop by, leave money and spare cartons, and take their eggs. Though his wife is home she has serious arthritis and prefers not to have to answer the door too much. Jimmy put up a sign that tells someone that if they need a dozen eggs and can't pay to please take them and to bring empty cartons back. He's off the property much of the time and he's the kind of guy that would never see someone go hungry. Of course you don't know if you're dealing with an opportunist thief or someone in need. It makes his wife nervous too, in a place where doors were left unlocked at one time- not now.
Our food banks are struggling this year, too.
