Island Grown Gleaning volunteers travel to island farms and harvest food that wouldn’t otherwise be harvested. We distribute the harvest free of charge to our school cafeterias, to low income islanders, to elders, and community members in need. Last year we delivered approximately 5 tons of delicious, nutritious, locally grown food to outlets like the Island Food Pantry, Serving Hands, Up-Island Council on Aging, the Dukes County Jail, and Woodside Village. We need volunteers to help harvest for an hour or two, and also folks who would like to drive around and drop the produce off.

Regular weekly gleans will happen August through November on Tuesdays at 9:30am. Meet the Gleaning Representative outside of the Morning Glory Farm stand. You will be provided with any necessary tools and advice on how to harvest the crop of the day. We will also meet there on the last Saturday of each month at 10am.

Do you have extra produce from your garden or fruit tree? We will be happy to send a few supervised volunteers to collect the produce and give to those in need.

To learn more, sign up for a glean this summer, make a financial contribution, or to be added to the Harvest Alert listserve, please contact Jamie O’Gorman: jamie@islandgrown.org or 508-687-9603.

See you in the fields this summer!