by Elaine Losekamp | Dec 5, 2023 | Eat Local, Gleaning
More than just dirt, Earth’s soil is essential for feeding and sustaining humanity. It’s the very basis of our food system! Natural processes like wind and precipitation erode the soil, while processes like the decomposition of organic matter and...
by Ben Southworth | Jul 9, 2019 | Donations, Eat Local, Farmers Markets, Gleaning, Hunger, Neighborhood Ambassador, Partner, Recipient Hightlight, Supporter, Uncategorized, Volunteer
This time of year, you’ll hear us talking a lot about it being our ‘peak season’ – the time when we’re out gleaning at our highest capacity. It’s when we start getting calls from farms, orchards, and home gardeners, and when even...
by Ben Southworth | Jun 18, 2019 | Donations, Eat Local, Farmers Markets, Gleaning, Hunger, Partner, Supporter, Volunteer
Every year, it seems like our farm gleaning season sneaks up on us out of nowhere. Grocery gleaning gets into a great, easy-to-manage routine during our ‘off-season’ from January and May, then suddenly we’re fielding calls from multiple farmers in a...
by Ben Southworth | Jun 12, 2018 | Community Event, Eat Local, Farmers Markets, Gleaning, Hunger, Neighborhood Ambassador, Partner, Recipient Hightlight, Volunteer
The vendors at the Lexington Farmers’ Market are some of GleanKY’s longest-standing supporters – back in the summer of 2010, GleanKY volunteers approached farmers at the market to ask what they did with all that produce they had left over at the end...
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 | Jun 2, 2015 | Community Event, Eat Local, Gleaning, Hunger, Neighborhood Ambassador, Partner, Preserving, Supporter
It’s a Friday afternoon, the sun is shining, and folks from every walk of life are walking down our street towards their individual destinations; a runway of activity. My husband arrives in a little red Toyota truck full of bread, fresh vegetables,...
