Greetings fellow gleaners!
We're really excited for 2014! In 2013,
we already gleaned approximately 48 tonnes of produce, equal to over 200,000
meals, with over 200 volunteers across 18 gleaning days. We
launched gleaning hubs in Kent, Cambridgeshire, Sussex, Bristol, London and
Manchester, and we hope over the coming year to expand to other regions like
Lincolnshire and Scotland, and around Europe! We also achieved extensive media
coverage, including Channel 4's River Cottage, the Guardian, BBC
Radio 4's Food Programme and Al Jazeera. And we've recently become one of the finalists
for the BBC Food and Farming Awards, in
the category of Best Initiative in British
Food!
Leek
gleaning day on Saturday 26th April 10am-5pm (TBC):
Join the Arable
Spring! Join us for an idyllic day on a farm near Wye in the Kent countryside,
saving literally tonnes of delicious leeks that would otherwise have been wasted
for charity. All the food will be going to charities dealing with food
poverty via our good friends Community Food
Enterprise, FareShare and
Food For All
in London. Travel expenses are covered for those travelling from Kent – just
check with us first! There may also be a few London places available, with
priority to Kent gleaners.
Please join us in the fields! If you can make it, please contact me at mailto:ren@feeding5k.org to confirm whether you can make the whole day, and send me your phone number and where you’ll be travelling from (e.g. London, Kent, etc.) so we can group you with fellow travel companions. We’ll then send you finalized details closer to the time. Please get in touch asap so we have an idea of numbers – the more people we have, the more leeks we can save! Also, please do check whether you can make it, as lots of drop outs at the last minute can jeopardise the gleaning day going ahead!
Please spread the word to your friends and networks, and do recommend any groups you think we should get in touch with! Here's a sharable facebook link for the event. If you're receiving this you're already on our gleaning list, but if your friends want to receive emails about future gleaning days, get them to sign up to our gleaning list here.
If you can't join us
this time, watch this space – we’ll have more gleaning days coming up over the coming year!
Please join us in the fields! If you can make it, please contact me at mailto:ren@feeding5k.org to confirm whether you can make the whole day, and send me your phone number and where you’ll be travelling from (e.g. London, Kent, etc.) so we can group you with fellow travel companions. We’ll then send you finalized details closer to the time. Please get in touch asap so we have an idea of numbers – the more people we have, the more leeks we can save! Also, please do check whether you can make it, as lots of drop outs at the last minute can jeopardise the gleaning day going ahead!
Please spread the word to your friends and networks, and do recommend any groups you think we should get in touch with! Here's a sharable facebook link for the event. If you're receiving this you're already on our gleaning list, but if your friends want to receive emails about future gleaning days, get them to sign up to our gleaning list here.
See you in the
fields!
Many thanks,
Martin Bowman
UK Gleaning Co-ordinator
UK Gleaning Co-ordinator
We are BBC Food and Farming
Awards finalists!
See photos from our most recent Feeding the 5000 in
Brussels.
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