Food left over from Cavendish Beach Music Festival donated to non-profits

Ryan McKellop · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 13, 2025 3:43 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

What happens to the nutrient near implicit from the Cavendish Beach Music Festival?

That is wherever Emily Browning steps in.

"Food rescue is important due to the fact that everyone needs food, everyone deserves entree to bully and steadfast nutrient to eat," said Browning, the operations manager for food-rescue enactment Second Harvest connected P.E.I. and New Brunswick.

"So, nutrient rescue is making definite that each the nutrient we're producing is really making its mode to plates instead of landfills."

The nutrient could see produce, pre-made meals and frozen goods.

This is the 3rd twelvemonth Second Harvest volition beryllium getting food from the festival, which ended Saturday night, and are looking astatine getting a ample magnitude of nutrient this year.

"We're anticipating a mates 1000 pounds this year," she said. "In the erstwhile years it's besides been a mates 1000 pounds. One lb of nutrient truly makes a immense difference, truthful we're blessed to get arsenic overmuch arsenic we can."

One of the non-profit organizations benefiting from this year's euphony fest is Gifts from the Heart.

Betty Begg-Brooks is the CEO and laminitis of the charity. It serves implicit 3,000 people. She operates 3 assemblage fridges.

She said operational costs are high. Getting rescued nutrient volition assistance little nutrient bills for the charity. "We bargain a batch of our food, too, truthful this is going to assistance america immensely."

Begg-Brooks said she has been doing foundation enactment for implicit six decades and that times person been getting hard for people.

"It's important due to the fact that this is my passion, this is my 61st twelvemonth of doing this benignant of work, and I spot each time caller radical travel in, regular radical travel in, and they can't marque ends meet," she said.

Gifts from the Heart had 5 vehicles successful Cavendish to instrumentality the nutrient back, Begg-Brooks said she is expecting to instrumentality location implicit a 1000 pounds of nutrient from this year's festival.

"We usually instrumentality astir a 1000 pounds," she said. "A thousand pounds, that's a lot, but this clip determination is more."

To debar immoderate waste, Begg-Brooks said she volition telephone churches and the Salvation Army to marque definite the nutrient gets to wherever it is needed.