Gleaning day coming up on Friday 10th May:
On Friday 10th May, the Gleaning Network will be heading down to a farm in
Broadstairs, Kent to harvest tonnes of cauliflower and save them from going to
waste, redistributing them to food poverty charities. We need volunteers to help
harvest the tasty produce! Join us for an idyllic day on the farm. Contact martin@feeding5k.org to find out
more, sign up to volunteer, or help coordinate. The day will be roughly 10am-5pm
(TBC), and travel expenses are covered for those travelling from Kent. If you
can't join us this time, sign up to our gleaning list and we'll let you know of
all future gleaning days. Also, let us know if you'd be interested in
coordinating gleaning days in the future,as we have loads of gleanings days
planned in Kent over the next few months. Join the Arable Spring!
What is Gleaning?
Gleaning Network UK, recently
featured on BBC Radio 4's Food Programme and Al Jazeera, and organised by
Tristram Stuart and Feeding the
5,000, is an exciting new initiative to save the thousands of tonnes of
fresh fruit and vegetables that are wasted on UK farms every year. Farmers
across the country often have no choice but to leave tonnes of their crops
unharvested and get ploughed back in the soil. These crops often cannot reach
the market either because they fail to meet the retail strict cosmetic standards
or because of overproduction.
See you in the fields!
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