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Sharing our abundance
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CommentDear editor, I love finding treasures in the great outdoors — freebies from a generous Creator, like colorful pebbles at the beach, textured grasses and wildflowers from roadsides and sweet, fragrant blackberries near a creek!
Let me tell you about a service I recently discovered that pairs the treasures growing in our yards with generosity in our community. The service is Napa Valley Food Bank’s Gleaning Project.
Let me tell you about a service I recently discovered that pairs the treasures growing in our yards with generosity in our community. The service is Napa Valley Food Bank’s Gleaning Project.
The Gleaning Project puts together people who have a surplus of produce in their yards with volunteer harvesters who come to pick the fruit or vegetables to give to needy families in Napa. Instead of cleaning up wasted rotting produce from the ground after a season, homeowners can utilize the Gleaning Project’s free harvesting service and do a good deed by donating their extra produce to hungry families.
This service is so practical! I’m writing you, dear community, because you, or someone you know, have more produce than you can eat and it does not have to go to waste! Like that generous neighbor who shared her delicious apricots with Kevin Courtney (“Do you know the way to Capay?” July 27), you could bless someone with the abundant treasures you have growing on your property.
This service is so practical! I’m writing you, dear community, because you, or someone you know, have more produce than you can eat and it does not have to go to waste! Like that generous neighbor who shared her delicious apricots with Kevin Courtney (“Do you know the way to Capay?” July 27), you could bless someone with the abundant treasures you have growing on your property.
If you are willing to share your bounty, call the Gleaning Project at 253-6128, and let its coordinator, Dianne Anderson, know when you would like a volunteer gleaner to come visit your home. If you’re like me, and you enjoy the satisfaction of harvesting treasures in the beautiful outdoors, then you could call that same number to volunteer.
And of course, if you want to pick your own fruits and vegetables to donate, you can deliver them directly to the Napa Valley Food Bank at 1755 Industrial Way, Suite 1, Napa, during regular business hours, which are Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
And of course, if you want to pick your own fruits and vegetables to donate, you can deliver them directly to the Napa Valley Food Bank at 1755 Industrial Way, Suite 1, Napa, during regular business hours, which are Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
We are truly blessed with an abundance in our beautiful valley! Let’s glean what we can for the hungry and not let it go to waste!
Kris Dodson / Napa
Kris Dodson / Napa
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Common Sense wrote on Aug 7, 2008 9:21 AM:
The government-run social programs just make our officials biased toward maintaining bloated bureaucracy and corruption while running up our taxes. And they don't do anything when they see Cadillac Escalades parked at the food bank. "
vocal-de-local wrote on Aug 7, 2008 2:07 PM:
Ruff Limblog wrote on Aug 7, 2008 5:39 PM:
Bauhausfan wrote on Aug 8, 2008 9:38 PM:
freeport56 wrote on Aug 10, 2008 3:08 PM:
Lighten up, she is right. Joe citizen can accomplish more more efficiently than any government can. I just heard about this program last night at the fair. I will more that happy to let them glean my 6 fruit trees. We have more than we need. "