What is gleaning?
The basic principle is simple. Gleaners—low-income,
able-bodied volunteers--organize themselves into gleaning groups.
They share half the crops they gather, surplus and
salvaged foods, and firewood with adoptees. Adoptees are low-income
people who are unable to gather food themselves because they are
elderly or disabled. Gleaners also share with their gleaning group,
food banks and group meal sites.
Today, more than 10,000 low-income households
belong to 25 gleaning organizations throughout Oregon.
This organizational model for gleaning groups is
unique to the West, primarily Oregon. Nowhere else in recent history
have so many low-income people worked together so consistently
for so long.
For more information, contact Megan Newell-Ching, 503-282-0555,
Ext. 207, or mnewellching@oregonfoodbank.org.
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