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Field Gleaner
ORGANIZATION: Society of St. Andrew
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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1182 people are interested
Field gleaners meet at a designated farm field or orchard, usually within 20-30 minutes (or less) of their home. After receiving a brief orienation from a field supervisor, they enter the field or orchard and glean (pick) the fruits or vegetables remaining after commercial harvest.
Gleaners bag and weigh the produce as they go. Field gleaners usually work 2-3 hours on a weekday or weekend. Children and families are welcome! (All persons under age 14 must be accompanied by an adult.)
When the gleaning is complete, willing volunteers load gleaned produce into their vehicles to take to a designated receiving agency (soup kitchen, shelter, food bank or pantry, child or senior nutrition program, etc.) nearby.
A group of 8-10 volunteers might recover 2,000 pounds of fresh, highly nutritious fruits and vegetables, yielding 6,000 servings for hungry people nearby.
Field gleaning volunteers also benefit the environment: by preventing that ton of produce from degrading in the field or in a landfill reduces future greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of keeping one car off the roads for a year.
The work is simple physical labor, usually picking and lifting fruits and vegetables of weights ranging from blueberries to pumpkins.
More opportunities with Society of St. Andrew
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About Society of St. Andrew
Location:
3511 Gallatin Pike, Nashville, TN 37216, US
Mission Statement
The Society of St. Andrew seeks to reduce pre-consumer food waste in the United States (and its concomitant negative environmental impacts) by recovering produce that is not commercially marketable and using that produce to improve the quality of nutrition available to persons across the United States who are at risk for hunger.
Description
The Society of St. Andrew provides fresh, nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables, in meaningful quantities, on an on-going basis, at no charge, to local agencies throughout the country that provide food, meals, and services to persons in need.
Within the State of Tennessee, the Society of St. Andrew's Gleaning Network seeks to mobilize thousands of volunteers each year to glean (pick) at least 2.5 million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables left behind in fields and orchards after commercial harvest, distributing the gleaned produce to hundreds of partner agencies throughout the state (large food banks, local food pantries, feeding programs, soup kitchens, Title I schools, shelters, emergency food programs, etc.) for their use in feeding the 840,000 Tennesseans, including 19.5% of the state's children, considered at risk for hunger.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
various locationsstatewide, TN
DATE POSTED
June 6, 2017
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 5
- Please include your zip code when you sign up!