New England Grassroots Environment Fund
New England Grassroots Environment Fund PO Box 1057 Montpelier, VT 05601 Telephone: 802-223-4622 Fax: 802-229-1734 Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)Salvation Farms (VT)
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Quick Facts
Contact: Theresa Snow
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Location: Wolcott, VT
Issue: Food Systems & Sustainable Agriculture
Sub-issue: Gleaning
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Group Resources
Community Gleaning: A How To Guide
Group Details
Salvation Farms is a community-based gleaning project that coordinates with farms and volunteers to salvage farm surplus and donate it to local emergency food sites, educational and care giving institutions, retirement communities, non-profits and the Vermont Foodback.
The group’s successes so far include: increasing the amount of farm fresh food made available to local distribution sites by 100% in two growing seasons; gleaning more that 88,000 pounds of produce distributed to more than 40 sites in the first 3 years of operation; working consistently with 16 local farms across the state of Vermont coordinating over 100 volunteers and gleaners.
The group, located in Wolcott (VT), received its latest grant in March 2007 to promote and creat strategic business plans for community-based gleaning and to support an educational outreach component focused on food security.