With Portland situated at the center of a thriving local food movement, it is easy to celebrate our agricultural wealth and booming culture of farmer’s markets and innovative restaurants. With this abundance at the forefront, the darker side of our food economy is...
Here at Urban Gleaners, our volunteers play a vital role in helping us redistribute a bounty of surplus food to Portland area schools and hunger relief agencies. Last year these dedicated individuals helped us rescue over 571,000 pounds of food from Portland area...
Urban Gleaners mission is to help alleviate hunger by collecting edible food that would otherwise be discarded from grocery stores, farmers markets, restaurants, farms and event sites to be delivered to any of our 17 partner elementary schools. Founded in 2006 by a...
The newly infamous Orange County is the backdrop to some of the most egregious and over-the-top television shows on air (The O.C., Housewives of Orange County, Laguna Beach). The O.C. has become synonymous with gratuitous wealth and excess; OPB named it the richest...
Lauren Howard Joins the Urban Gleaners’ Staff Lauren joins Urban Gleaners with over 8 years of experience in the non-profit world. As an undergrad at DePaul University, he joined a literacy-based school readiness program and was placed at a Headstart preschool...
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