Upper Valley MEND Gleaning

Upper Valley MEND Gleaning Gleaning envisions a healthy, self-reliant community with access to fresh, locally grown foods for every community member. http://uvmend.org/community-harvest

The Upper Valley MEND Gleaning Program gleans excess or unmarketable produce from farms & orchards and donates it to local food banks across Chelan and Douglas Counties. Upper Valley MEND's Gleaning Program works to strengthen the local food system by helping farmers manage excess or un-marketable products and making this food accessible to the communities of Chelan & Douglas counties. The Gleanin

g Program is a project of The Community Cupboard food bank at Upper Valley MEND, a non-profit organization dedicated to meeting community needs of hunger, housing, and healthcare, in partnership with Harvest Against Hunger, a program that supports the development of gleaning and produce recovery programs that support local hunger relief groups around the state.

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347 Division Street
Leavenworth, WA
98826

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+15095480408

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Community Harvest is a program of Upper Valley Mend. We envision a healthy, self-reliant community with access to fresh, locally grown foods for every community member. Community Harvest works to strengthen the local food system by helping farmers manage excess or un-marketable products and making this food accessible to the communities of Chelan & Douglas counties through the region’s existing emergency food providers. This is accomplished by mobilizing volunteers to glean at local farms, orchards, and backyard gardens, and then donating the food to local food banks.

Community Harvest addresses local hunger in a unique way by providing access to fresh, local produce, something often missing in the local emergency food pantries due to limited cold storage, tight budgets, and logistically-challenging schedules. By establishing a wide network of donor farms and volunteers, as well as partnering with the local food distribution system, Community Harvest brings harvested produce to the region’s centrally located distribution warehouse, where it is then stored until it can be incorporated into the normal delivery schedule as soon as possible.

http://uvmend.org/community-harvest