| WHERE
DOES THE FOOD COME FROM? Small
Potatoes Gleaning Project works closely with local farmers, enabling them to contribute
fresh food to hungry people in the community with minimal time and effort.
- We
identify surplus produce on local farms, set up gleaning plan and
organize volunteers to glean.
- Volunteers
who are low-income may take home a portion of the gleaning for their own
needs.
- Food
gleaned by community volunteers is donated to local agencies who provide
food to hungry people.
- Food
recipients can attain food preservation skills through simple canning techniques.
- Food
Security: Access to nutritious food by all people at all times in order
to live active healthy lives.
WHERE
DID THE PRODUCE GO? Produce
gleaned by volunteers was delivered to the following:
Bellingham Community
Meals Program, Bellingham Food Bank, Bellingham Head Start, Bellingham Senior
Center, Blaine Food Bank, CAST Program, Christ the King, Church on the Street,
Evergreen AIDS Foundation, Ferndale Community Meals Program, Ferndale Food Bank,
Ferndale Square and Villa Apartments, Food not Bombs, Foothills Food Bank, Interfaith
Health Clinic, Lighthouse Mission, Lummi Food Bank, Lydia Place, Lynden Project
Hope, Lynden Senior Center, Maple Alley Inn, Nooksack Head Start, Nooksack Valley
Food Bank, Rainbow Center, low income volunteer recipients, Salvation Army, SeaMar,
Sean Humphrey House, Soups On, Southside Food Bank, Sterling Meadows, We Care,
and YWCA |
|
| FOOD
SCARCITY Families
with a limited income often don't consume enough fresh fruits and vegetables.
Recent statistics show there are over 36 million (food insecure) individuals in
the United States, 40% are children under the age of 18. A
new study, from the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson, indicates that a shocking
forty to fifty per cent of all food ready for harvest never gets eaten. |
It
takes a village….
Thanks
to the combined efforts of farmers, farm workers, and volunteers, over twenty
five TONS (53,114) lbs of fresh produce was gleaned and distributed to over 30
sites and to low income participants around Whatcom County in 2007. |
| Produce
Gleaned by Small Potatoes Gleaning Project | |
2006 |
85,000
lbs | |
2005 | 110,000
lbs | | 2004 |
60,000
lbs. | | 2003 |
50,000
lbs | | 2002 |
40,600
lbs | | 2001 |
22,000
lbs | Very
Special thanks for participation from the following
Farms and Farmers Market vendors in 2007:
Growing Washington at Alm Hill Gardens,
Applewood, Bellewood Acres, Big Sky Gardens, Broadleaf Farm, Llloyd Elenbaas,
Hannegan Seafood, Holistic Homestead, Hopewell Farm, Immanuel Lutheran First Fruits
Garden, Mike Kohl, Nooksack Nine, Rabbit Fields Farm, Roberto Bermudez Produce.
Thanks
go out to the many home fruit tree owners who also donated hundreds of
pounds of fresh fruit for gleaning and distribution.
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