Willing Hands

09/02/2026

Our September Gardening with Pride volunteer garden session is next Tuesday, 9/8 at the Willing Hands home garden in Norwich! This event offers LGBTQ+ volunteers, our friends, families, and allies a welcoming space to connect, enjoy peak summer garden lushness, and make a meaningful impact on food insecurity in the Upper Valley.

Sign up to join us on Tuesday! https://dash.pointapp.org/events/687659

09/01/2026

Willing Hands is the recipient of 's Sunshine Fund at their Waitsfield taproom, starting today, September 1, and running through September 15th! For these two weeks, 100% of tips given by taproom guests — offered instead of traditional gratuities — will be donated directly to Willing Hands.

Visit Lawson's Finest Liquids' Waitsfield taproom September 1–15 to enjoy great drinks and food while supporting Willing Hands' mission.

08/31/2026

Ever wonder how you can get some outdoor time away from the office for 2 hours and do some good? Hypertherm Associates CFO and his finance leaders took a break from long term planning and volunteered at Willing Hands. Their fields are calling you. https://willinghands.org/volunteer-sign-up/

08/27/2026

Willing Hands' food recovery efforts reduce food waste, an important step in addressing the climate crisis. Thanks to the support of Jane's Trust Foundation, we continue to make excellent progress toward our climate action goals. Our net avoided emissions improved by 25.2% from 2024 to 2025 (from 1,176,451 lbs CO2e to 1,472,783 lbs CO2e avoided)!

08/24/2026

Kale yeah! It's kale season in New England, and a few weeks ago, Brattleboro Reformer’s Multimedia Editor, Kristopher Radder, observed a glean at Harlow Farm in Westminster, VT. Enjoy his beautiful pictures and video here. Vermont Gleaning Collective

Volunteers harvest surplus red kale at Harlow Farm in Westminster during a gleaning event organized by Willing Hands on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026.

08/20/2026

It was an excellent blueberry season here in NH and VT, and Willing Hands has the numbers to prove it! Over the course of about four weeks, there were 25 gleans across 8 different sites for a whopping total of 3,024 pints — approximately 1,978 pounds — of blueberries! According to Google, that's over 400,000 individual berries.

None of this would have been possible without our gleaning volunteers, who braved both hot and rainy days to make this season such a success!

Thank you to our incredible food access partners this blueberry season: Bartletts Blueberry-Farm, Kingland Farms, llc, Hill Farm, Levin Blueberry Patch, Green Dragon Farm, Wild Hill Organics, Fish Hill Farm, and Rich's Blueberry Patch. Vermont Gleaning Collective

08/18/2026

We're proud to have donated 1,914 pounds of carrots, onions, radishes, lettuce, and potatoes to this spring, to be delivered to social service organizations across the region. Helping to feed our neighbors one harvest at a time 🥕

08/14/2026

Make Art! Support Willing Hands! Join local artist Pam Smith for a hands-on botanical printmaking workshop benefiting Willing Hands at ! Create colorful botanical prints from leaves, flowers, and natural materials, then turn them into whimsical collages or original art. Thank you to Pam for her generosity in donating proceeds to Willing Hands.

08/10/2026

We hope everyone had a good weekend! We had a BERRY good Friday when we received about a pallet of strawberries from our partners Upper Valley Produce, LLC which we quickly passed along to our friends at Upper Valley Haven—adding 345 pounds of extra sweetness to their weekend!🍓