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A Tiny But Mighty Grape Glean!
The Haywood Gleaners are ready for any glean, large or small.
On Aug 28, 2015, a glean of concord grapes at a private garden was small but nonetheless contributed fresh produce to the food insecure in Haywood County:
Gleaners: 7
Total gleaning hours: 7
Pounds gleaned: 100
Distribution: 20# boxes of grapes to 5 locations:
Waynesville Senior Center
Canton Senior Center
Waynesville Towers
Maggie Senior Center
Maggie Methodist Church
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- A family affair!
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- Partners in Crime & Other Things
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- Gleaning can be fun and educational
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- See what we mean?
The Ginormous Tomato Glean Report
Date: 8/29/15
Grower: Mountain Research Station
Total pounds: 3975 pounds!!!
Total volunteers: 23
Hours gleaned: 4
Total volunteer hours: 92
Distribution:
ARC-100#
Aviemore-75#
Bethel pantry-75#
Broyhill-350#
Canton Community Kitchen-300#
Canton Senior center-50#
Cavalier-50#
Chestnut #1-50#
Chestnut #2-50#
Cindy Lane-50#
Great Laurels-125#
Haywood Christian Ministries-300#
Haywood County CAPS/APS-75#
Haywood County Detention Center-400#
Hickory Hollow-125#
Lakeview/Mountainview-150#
McCracken-50#
Maggie Methodist-250#
Maggie Valley Senior center-50#
Maple Leaf-125#
Meals on Wheels-250#
Open Door-150#
Pathways-100#
Reach-75#
Richland-125#
Timber Ridge-75#
The Towers-100#
Waynesville Senior Center-50#
Taken home by Gleaners-250# (well deserved!)
So many Haywood County food insecure persons will be eating well this coming week thanks to Haywood Gleaners. It was a great day in the field, folks!
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- Heading out with an empty bucket ready to fill again!
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- Load ’em up and Head ’em out!
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- Rows and Rows and Rows of tomatoes
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- A Glean Manager is organized and efficient!
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- Boxes are building, rows are filling
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- Weighing, boxing, it’s a busy day!
Another Fabulous Glean!
Date gleaned: 8/24/15
Produce: Roma tomatoes-40#
Regular tomatoes-37#
Green beans-24#
Grower: Don Moore
Distribution:
Fines Creek Pantry: 40# Roma tomatoes
Great Laurels: 37# tomatoes
Broyhill Home: 24# green beans
Go Gleaners!
Apples Don’t Fall Far From the Trees
Haywood Gleaners picked over 1500 pounds of apples today (8/18/15). Whew! The apples were distributed to 17 locations that help feed the food insecure in our county. Lots of apple pies and applesauce for everyone! Thanks to the Chatfields and all who were there to glean and transport. Go Gleaners!
Tomatoes Galore!
Another Successful Glean! On Friday, August 14, the Haywood Gleaners picked approximately 2,000 lbs of tomatoes – WOW!
Don’t forget about the Apple Glean Tuesday, August 18. If you are a member, please see your email for details. If not, please go to our website to sign up for our newsletter (glean notifications, too). http://haywoodgleaners.org. If you are a new member and are not receiving our glean notifications, please sign up on our website home page.
Produce Delivered to Date
As of August 2, 2015, the Haywood Gleaners have already provided 9,066 pounds of fresh produce to the food insecure in our county. And we haven’t actually started the big gleans yet! Stay tuned and watch out for more glean notification emails . . . and please remember, some gleans are with a 1-3 day notice so we especially thank all those who can swing into action with a very short heads up!
Produce includes: cucumbers, yellow squash, lettuce, green beans, zucchini, blackberries, potatoes and cabbage
Potatoes/Cabbage “planned glean” – delivered to Lake Junaluska by SoSA
Yellow Squash “planned glean” – grown and gleaned by Boy Scout Troop 326
Cucumber “planned glean” – already picked and boxed – whew!
Blackberry glean – small but wonderfully sweet
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- Cucumber Deliveries
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- Boy Scout Glean
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Boy Scout Troop 326 Grows and Gleans
What do you get when you connect 10-16 boy scouts with a flood plain? A community garden, of course. Troop 326 of Clyde accepted the challenge by invitation of the Haywood Gleaners to plant a community garden on unused land.
Haywood County Recreation and Parks director Claire Carleton’s advisory board forwarded the troop’s request to develop the garden to the county commissioners/manager and with their approval the scouts were good to go. And go they did!
After months of preparation work which included weekly sessions in the garden, the scouts have to date harvested (gleaned) over 1,000 squash which they donated to the Canton Community Table’s soup kitchen as well as other Haywood Gleaning distribution sites. Their merit badge counselor Josh Francis stated that they will continue to work the garden with high hopes of harvesting more produce throughout the season that will also be donated.
Josh’s son Justin, who is working on his Eagle Scout certification, continues to provide the troop with inspirational leadership in this good cause.
This is the first time that the three year old Haywood Gleaners’ volunteer organization has partnered with a scout troop to provide ongoing seasonal gleans for those facing food insecurity.
We encourage more scout troops as well as church and other groups to work with us to develop plots that are currently available for community gardening.
Congratulations, Troop 326!
For more information regarding gleaning/gardening opportunities please contact HG at haywoodgleaners@gmail.com or Jim Geenen at jamesgeenen@yahoo.com.
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Seed Potato Project a Success!
UPDATE: 3/15/15
The Seed Potato Project was a resounding success! The “potato girls” and their fabulous helpers gave away over 12,000 pounds of seed potatoes. Congrats and gratitude to Mary Alice Lodico and Marian Phalin for all their hard work and dedication to this project.
It’s REALLY cold out here—are we really up for this? Are the customers really going to come out in this cold and rain???!
Randall Crouch, our Number One Volunteer!
The potato girls – end of Day 1 – Can you believe everyone came who said they would except ONE person!? Over 8,000 pounds given out.
Thank Goodness, and Donna Koger, for this nifty canopy which kept us and the potatoes nice and dry on a rainy day! Randall, Mary Alice and Dylan–Randall’s son who was also a huge help.
Randall and Mary Alice with the other potato girl, Marian. We did a block buster business with many people walking up to take potatoes. Second day’s total brought us to over 12,000 pounds distributed including deliveries in the week to come.
2015 Seed Potato Project
2/21/15
The Haywood Gleaners Seed Potato Project invites farmers and gardeners to grow potatoes for sharing. We will provide bags of seed potatoes for planting to anyone interested. After harvesting, keep what you want and share a portion with food pantries, soup kitchens and needy friends. If you have grown a large amount of potatoes to share, the Haywood Gleaners will provide gleaning help for you.
Pickup is on:
Friday, March 13, 2015, at the Crabtree Community Center, 5855 Crabtree Rd (Hwy 209) from 10:00am until 2:00pm. See directions on back.
You can also pick up on Saturday, March 14, at the Waynesville Ingles(on Russ Ave) parking lot from 10:00am until 2:00pm. In case of rain, Ingles pickup will be Monday, March 16, 5-7pm.
Please contact Mary Alice Lodico (828-452-0513) or Marian Phalin (407-492-6861) for details. You can also contact the Haywood Gleaners by email: haywoodgleaners@gmail.com. Haywood Gleaners website: haywoodgleaners.org