Pierce County Gleaning Project

Pierce County Gleaning Project
Tacoma, WA
ph: 253.584.1040
ellen@efoodnet.org

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What Do We Glean?

Neighborhood Fruit Trees

Have you ever seen fruit on your neighborhood's trees ripen beautifully, only to go unpicked, rot, and fall on the ground? Get involved with our second year of harvesting from neighborhood fruit trees in and around Tacoma!

Farms

Beginning on-farm gleans in the lush Puyallup Valley this year!

Gardens

With seed donated from Mother Earth Farm, Ed Hume Seeds, Territorial Seed Co., Seed Savers Exchange, and the America the Beautiful Fund, we are launching a "Plant a Row for the Hungry" campaign - where we'll give out seeds to local gardeners planting a row for their local food bank!

What is Gleaning?

Gleaning is harvesting produce left over in fields and gardens after the main harvest. For centuries, "field gleaning" has been a vital source of food for people in poverty. Gleaning programs are becoming more popular ways to provide local, healthy produce to food banks around the country.

Why Glean?

Cut Waste in a country where over 25-50% of commercially-grown food goes to waste every year.

Feed People with the bounty of the county. Clients at Pierce county food banks rose by nearly 46% from 2008-2010.

Have extra produce to donate? Food banks near you need fresh produce!

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Pierce County Gleaning Project
Tacoma, WA
ph: 253.584.1040
ellen@efoodnet.org

Pierce County Gleaning Project

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Welcome to our site!

The Pierce County Gleaning Project helps fight hunger and build community by recruiting volunteers to harvest local produce that would otherwise be wasted for county food banks and hot meal sites.

What Do We Glean?

Have extra produce to donate? Food banks near you need fresh produce!