Salvation Farms, a Morrisville based nonprofit, has received a $10,000 matching grant for the second consecutive summer. What’s the catch? To land the money, new donors are needed to meet this match by Friday, July 17.
Salvation Farms works to glean the millions of pounds of food that rot in Vermont fields every summer because it is not economical to harvest. The organization is building a network of gleaners across the state who will help to fill the empty bellies of thousands of hungry men, women, and children with healthy produce.
Gleaning is the ancient agrarian act of reaping after the harvest, historically done by the poor. In 2004, Salvation Farms reintroduced gleaning in Vermont as a professionally coordinated service for farms, volunteers and food access sites.
More than 2 million pounds of fresh food never leave Vermont farms. Salvation Farms builds avenues and partnerships to move this wholesome, high-quality food to people struggling to meet their daily food needs. Nationally, one in six people can’t meet their daily nutritional needs, and Vermont is no exception.
Salvation Farms’ recent successes includes setting up a collaborative network of gleaners across Vermont, the minimal processing of more than 3,000 frozen servings of surplus crops, and engaging prison inmates in cleaning, assessing and packing more than 300,000 pounds of surplus crops.
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