What is Gleaning?
Gleaning is an old-fashioned word that means harvesting the leftovers from a farm or garden.
Why Glean?
In Clallam County, 15% of all residents don’t have enough food to eat. Gleaned fruits and vegetables can help fill some of that gap by getting healthy produce to places it is needed most, like food banks, senior centers, Boys and Girls Clubs and Homelessness Resource Centers. Plus, as a gleaning volunteer you will be able to take home produce to share with friends and family, save money on groceries and prevent waste.
Join the Gleaning Program!
You can become a gleaning volunteer and pick fruits and vegetables from local farms and gardens, or you can request a gleaning volunteer to come and harvest from your yard. The WSU Clallam Extension office houses two gleaning programs. The Clallam Gleaners connects individual volunteers with homeowners who have produce in their backyards to donate. The Farm Glean Program organizes regular group gleans at local farms, led by an Extension staff member.
If you are mainly interested in picking fruit, check out the gleaning website at www.clallamgleaners.org and sign up to Volunteer. If you have produce in your yard that you want a gleaning volunteer to pick, you can check out the gleaning website at www.clallamgleaners.org and sign up to Donate a Crop. You can also contact the Backyard Fruit Gleaning Coordinator at sharah.truett@wsu.edu or 360-565-2619
If you are mainly interested in harvesting vegetables from a farm, visit our Farm Gleaning page here to sign up.
