It’s been a hallmark year for Urban Gleaners in many respects. We increased our fleet of vans by 100% (from 1 to 2) and our staff by 50% (from 2 to 3). Every month the amount of edible food we capture from the waste stream surges, as if there is a never-ending tidal...
This past holiday season, the MetroEast Community Hotline Channel graciously hosted Urban Gleaners on their show. They invited us to highlight our major programs and to talk about the ever pervasive and expanding need in Portland. As we enter into Urban...
Once you become mired in your own profession, everything becomes normalized; the jargon (weird lexicon and acronyms), the systems, the software and the tools. We forget sometimes that we’re specialists in our field and that the outside world often doesn’t know the...