by Ben Southworth | Jan 9, 2018 | Community Kitchen, Eat Local, Farm-To-Kitchen, Preserving
After several months of construction and getting our systems down pat, the FoodChain/GleanKY Farm-To-Kitchen program made our first delivery to Embrace Church on Monday, December 11th. We were able to provide a Fall Vegetable Soup Base comprised of produce donated by...
by GleanKY | Jan 30, 2012 | Community Kitchen, Preserving, Volunteer
On Sunday, January 15, two Faith Feeds volunteers, Meg Swayze and Rachael Brugger brought together 30 youth and adults in the kitchen of Centenary United Methodist Church to prepare 20 pumpkin pies from scratch using pumpkins gleaned from Reed Valley Orchard. Think of...
by GleanKY | Nov 21, 2011 | Community Kitchen, Gleaning, Preserving
It has been a generous year full of fresh fruits and vegetables. We are thankful for the bountiful donations from vegetable and orchard farmers, grocery stores and our neighbors. As we are closing in on the final farm and orchard gleanings, we begin to preserve...
by GleanKY | Feb 10, 2011 | Community Kitchen, Edible Garden Series, Gleaning
What an amazing and successful season we had in our first year! Between mid-June and the end of November, forty volunteers collected approximately 37,500 lbs. of fresh food from farmers’ markets, local orchards, and farmers’ fields in central Kentucky....
by GleanKY | Aug 11, 2010 | Community Kitchen, Gleaning
From Erica Horn: Due to the extraordinary efforts of the Hamilton Park gleaning team and the generosity of Reed Valley Orchard and the farmers of the Lexington Farmer’s Market, Faith Feeds had its biggest week ever, gleaning 1,835 lbs. We have now gleaned in...
by GleanKY | Jul 30, 2010 | Community Kitchen, Gleaning
The corn canning party at La Roca last Tuesday was an outrageous success! Get the details (and incriminating photos) at Seedleaf’s site: http://seedleaf.org.
