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...
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...
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...
We can’t help but pat ourselves on the back. Mother nature played a small role, as well as this most recent heat wave, but mostly we succeeded! This past week we pulled in a great harvest of kale (an additional 6 lbs, which doesn’t sound like much but it looks like a...
It’s been a while since the last garden post because, well, there hasn’t been much to say. We waited and waited for the first sprouts from our seeds to shoot up. Just when we’d called the garden program a resounding failure, there they were the next day, small and...
This last week we finally got our starts and seeds in the ground. The Urban Gleaners team spent a morning shopping and agonizing over which items to get at Portland Nursery. We inspected the vegetable starts with time-consuming scrutiny until we were sure we had the...
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