Farm to Table Workshop breakout session: Gleaning

Challenges

  • Food rotting in the fields
  • Time and distance for produce pick-ups
  • Limited distribution radius
  • Shortage of volunteers/difficulty of coordination
  • Poor economy = greater demand on Emergency Food System

Ideas

  • Listserve for interested local volunteers
  • Engage high school community service groups
  • Could piggyback farm-to-school ideals/efforts
  • Harvest Against Hunger can help provide infrastructure
  • Second Harvest is a contact for growers who have extra produce
  • Plus, they pick-up
  • Chelan County Court Probation Office – Community Service
  • Hospitality House
  • Not much transportation?
  • WA Welfare Office
  • Wenatchee Food Bank
  • Gets food from NCW Food Distribution Center
  • Connect with new administrators
  • Increased demand, reduced supply

 

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