It is not enough that we present an austere and repellent virtue; the fair food should be set on a fair platter.

Despite being an essential service, Fair Food isn't covered by a lot of government funding programmes.

It produces vegetables, fruit, eggs and seedlings that are sold direct to consumers and through the organisation's Fair Food online delivery business.

Fair Food has saved almost 400,000kg of food and delivered more than a million meals to needy New Zealanders since it was founded in 2012.