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 | Sep 6, 2018 | Gleaning, Hunger, Neighborhood Ambassador, Networking, Partner, Recipient Hightlight, Supporter, Volunteer
Volunteers like Garth Lehman enable GleanKY to fulfill our mission of keeping produce from going to waste and making sure that it gets to people who need it. Garth has been volunteering with GleanKY for years and makes weekly gleaning trips to Good Foods Co-op, many...
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 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,...
by GleanKY | Apr 22, 2014 | Farmers Markets, Fundraising, Gleaning, Hunger, Neighborhood Ambassador, Partner, Recipient Hightlight, Supporter, Volunteer
There are so many people in need of loving care. It is overwhelming to think about all the need in our community. It is easy to say, I can’t make a difference – my contribution is just a drop in a bucket. The problem is so great, I can’t fix it. Hunger 1 in 6 people...
by GleanKY | Jul 25, 2012 | Community Event, Gleaning, Neighborhood Ambassador, Volunteer
Overwhelmed with gratitude. By contributing author, Tanya Torp I just had the honor of knocking on some doors in my neighborhood and telling neighbors that the Faith Feeds|Glean KY delivery arrived. Several neighbors came and left with bags of fresh, healthy,...
