Senior Gleaners San Diego County

11/03/2026

Senior Gleaners of San Diego County was happy to participate in the Casa de Oro Library open house! 📚🍊

Some of our volunteers and board members hosted a table and exhibit, sharing how we harvest surplus fruit and help get fresh, healthy food to people who need it. Thank you to everyone who stopped by!

There’s plenty to celebrate at this new, 12,000-square-foot library—double the size of the previous branch! Highlights include dedicated children’s and teen spaces, study rooms, 3D printing, outdoor patios, and a 2,000-square-foot community room. There’s even a used bookstore operated by the Friends of the Casa de Oro Library.

We’re delighted to be part of a community that brings people together to learn, connect, and help one another. 💚

10/22/2026

SENIOR GLEANERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY IS SEEKING NEW BOARD MEMBERS!

For more than 30 years, our nonprofit has brought the senior community together to provide fresh, healthy food to those who need it most.

We’re seeking **board members from South Bay and East County** to help ensure that we understand and address the needs of these communities.

If you care about feeding people in need and reducing food waste, we’d love to hear from you. Leadership or board experience is welcome, but isn’t required. Neither is gleaning experience—and **board members can be any adult age.**

Board members help guide fundraising, finances, and organizational oversight. They attend **quarterly virtual meetings**, contribute to committee work between meetings, and make an annual financial contribution.

Bring your ideas, experience, and community connections to a mission that makes a difference.

**Interested? Contact [email protected] to learn more.**

10/13/2026

Your fruit trees have been busy. Got plans for all that fruit?
Lemons, pomegranates and persimmons—our backyard trees really know how to put on a fall color show! 💛❤️🧡

And these three make a delicious team: sweet persimmons, juicy pomegranate seeds and a bright squeeze of lemon come together in a colorful autumn salad. Need inspiration? Try this persimmon and pomegranate salad from Edible San Diego.

https://ediblesandiego.com/recipe/autumn-persimmon-and-pomegranate-salad/

But you don’t have to become a salad chef to put your extra fruit to good use!

If you have more fruit than you can use—or fruit you haven’t made plans for yet—contact Senior Gleaners of San Diego County. Our volunteers harvest surplus fruit and share it with local organizations that help feed our neighbors.
🍊 Other fruits are welcome, too! Still ripening? Reach out now so we can plan ahead.
📧 [email protected]
🌳 Register your fruit trees here: Register your fruit trees here:

https://seniorgleanerssdco.org/site_registration.php

Keep a little for your kitchen. Share the abundance. And give that hardworking tree a chance to feed more people! 💚

09/17/2026

You may have already seen many posts today about - a day dedicated to bringing awareness to the nonprofits working to make our region stronger. Live local. Give local!
https://seniorgleanerssdco.org/donate-now/

09/03/2026

🍊 Hello, fall is almost here! 🍋 Donate your extra fruit and spread the love!

Do you have extra fruit that you can’t use? Let Senior Gleaners of San Diego County pick it for you and donate it to local food banks and nonprofit organizations that help feed seniors, families, and others in need throughout our community.

Whether you have one tree or many, our experienced volunteers will harvest your excess fruit at no cost. Senior Gleaners has been rescuing surplus food for years—preventing waste and turning San Diego’s backyard abundance into fresh, nutritious food for our neighbors.

Register your trees for a free picking:

https://seniorgleanerssdco.org/site_registration.php

Please share this with friends and neighbors who may have fruit to donate!

Volunteers, ages 55+ glean surplus food from fields, groves, backyards, stores and restaurants

08/31/2026

🍊🍋 **Fresh fruit, great people, and a beautiful day at Chula Vista HarborFest!**

Senior Gleaners of San Diego County was out at HarborFest a little over a week ago, sharing fresh-picked oranges and lemons and talking with people about how much good can come from the fruit growing right in our own backyards.

Our volunteers harvest excess fruit from local trees — **at no cost to the homeowner** — and help get that fresh food to people in our community who can use it.

Have a tree full of oranges, lemons, grapefruit, avocados or other produce you can’t use? We’d love to help!

🍊 Register your trees for a free picking:
https://seniorgleanerssdco.org/site_registration.php

🙋 Want to join us as a volunteer gleaner?
https://seniorgleanerssdco.org/volregistration.php

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth, sampled some incredibly fresh fruit, and learned a little more about what Senior Gleaners does.

**Good food shouldn’t go to waste when it can help feed a neighbor.**

08/20/2026

🍋 **What a great day at the Chula Vista Lemon Festival!**

Senior Gleaners had a wonderful time meeting so many people at our booth during this year’s Lemon Festival. The turnout was fantastic, and we want to thank everyone who stopped by to say hello, learn more about what we do, and support our mission of rescuing food and helping feed people throughout San Diego County. 🍋💚

And we’re not done yet!

🌊 **Come see us this Saturday, August 22, at Chula Vista HarborFest!** The free family event runs from **10 AM–6 PM at the Chula Vista bayfront**, with live music, food, activities and plenty of fun.

Stop by the **Senior Gleaners booth** and say hello. We’d love to see you!

👉 HarborFest information: https://cvharborfest.com/

Thank you, Chula Vista, for such a warm welcome at Lemon Festival. We’ll see you at the harbor! 🌊🍋

08/18/2026

🍊 The Mexican Fruit Fly Quarantine Is Having a Big Impact on Senior Gleaners

Across our South, East and Central districts, the amount of produce we’ve been able to harvest has dropped from 77,299 pounds to 34,374 pounds — a 55.5% decrease.

That’s 42,925 fewer pounds of fresh food going to local food banks and community organizations.

The problem isn’t a lack of fruit or volunteers. Quarantine rules restrict the movement of backyard fruit in affected areas to prevent the spread of the Mexican fruit fly.

Senior Gleaners is following those rules while working hard to find fruit we can harvest — and we could use your help.

💚 Your donation helps us reach new fruit donors, organize volunteers, maintain equipment and get every available pound of produce to people who need it.

Have fruit outside the quarantine area? Please contact us.
Want to help us keep harvesting? Donate here:

every.org/seniorgleaners/f/rescue-food-reduce-waste

Check whether your property is in the quarantine area:

https://cdfa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html...
42,925 pounds of missing produce tells the story. Help us keep the rest of the harvest moving

Senior Gleaners of San Diego County rescues fresh fruit and surplus food that would otherwise go to waste and delivers it to local food pantries, shelters, and hunger-relief organizations serving people throughout San Diego County. Powered primarily by volunteers, the rescued food is turned into hea...

08/13/2026

🍋 **Senior Gleaners is coming to the Chula Vista Lemon Festival!**

Come visit us this **Saturday, August 15, from 11 AM–6 PM** at the **29th Annual Lemon Festival on Third Avenue in Downtown Chula Vista.**

We’ll have a booth and would love for you to stop by, say hello, and learn more about how Senior Gleaners rescues fresh backyard fruit and gets it to people in our community who need it.

It’s a perfect event for us — Chula Vista was once known as the **“Lemon Capital of the World,”** and backyard citrus is still an important part of our gleaning work today. 🍋🍊

Enjoy live music, food, vendors, kids activities and plenty of lemon-themed fun — and **come find the Senior Gleaners booth!**

📅 Saturday, August 15
⏰ 11 AM–6 PM
📍 Third Avenue, Downtown Chula Vista

**Eat, drink, be zesty — and come say hi!** 🍋💚

07/30/2026

Senior Gleaners was proud to host a booth at the **2026 FALLBROOK CHAMBER of COMMMERCE NONPROFIT EXPO!

It was a wonderful opportunity to meet members of the Fallbrook community, share information about our gleaning and food distribution programs, and connect with people interested in donating fruit or volunteering at future harvests.

Thank you to the ** Chamber of Commerce** for bringing local nonprofit organizations together and giving us the chance to highlight the important work being done throughout our community.

We look forward to continuing to rescue fresh produce, reduce food waste, and help provide nutritious food to families in need!