Gleaning for the hungry

As part of our community sustaionability, local food effort and community gardening we will be gleaning backyard fruit trees for food pantries. There are hundreds of Pear, Apple and Peach trees that are left unpicked in the backyards of our neighbors. Many of the owners only use a small fraction of the fruit the tree produces.

Gleaning is mentioned as far back as bibical times. However then the poor would be allowed to go over the fields and find what was left behind after a harvest to help feed themselves. This is gleaning with a twist. We have generous and kind tree owners. We have generous and kind fruit pickers and we have people who need the food. Its a great match..perhaps made in heaven.

If you know people who have trees that have useable fruit ask if they'd like to partiispaqte in this effort to feed our niegbors and people suffering from this resession.

We will seek volunteers to help us pick the fruit and donate it to local food pantires and feeding programs. Eating on the job is encouraged.

We will be picking Pears Saturday September 12th at 10:30 in Startford. Contact Terry or Paul for directions.