Gleaning and Community Canning

Since June 2009 Slow Harvest gleaners have gathered over 21,000 pounds of fruit, vegetables and bakery goods, which have been delivered to Food For Thought Food Bank in Forestville, the Healdsburg Food Pantry, local Senior Centers, Graton Labor Center, Redwood Gospel Mission, and the Redwood Empire Food Bank. This surplus bounty continues to be a huge help to folks in our community.

We have also held community canning events which produced apple sauce, tomato sauce, apple juice, soup, and bags of fresh peeled, seeded and chopped tomatoes for the freezers of local food banks. Our community cooking events have produced many hundreds of delicious tamales and empanadas, delivered both cooked and oven/freezer ready.

Join Us!!!

• If you have some time, spend it with us: gleaning, delivering or preserving.
• If you find yourself with an abundance of food (too many squash, a tree full of apples?), let us know and we can help get it to people in our community who will put it to good use!
• If you don’t live in our community, we encourage you to start a gleaning group in your area. Contact us and we’ll be happy to share our experience with you!