Hunger relief efforts, getting more healthy food to those in need
France to force big supermarkets to give unsold food to charities
Check it out. This might spur a global movement!
Legislation barring stores from spoiling and throwing away food is aimed at tackling epidemic of waste alongside food poverty. French supermarkets will be banned from throwing away or destroying unsold food and must instead donate it to charities or for animal feed, under a law set to […]
What is “food insecurity”?
“Food insecurity” is the way that the USDA measures levels of access to food. They define it as meaning “consistent access to adequate food is limited by a lack of money and other resources at times during the year”.
From Lisa Ousley: It’s just human nature. We try to protect ourselves from painful experiences. I think the […]
Graded out produce still perfectly good to nourish hungry bellies
From Lisa Ousley: At After the Harvest, we glean-plain and simple. But maybe not so simple if you’re not familiar with what gleaning means and why we do it.
Gleaning is the act of gathering food left after a field, orchard or vineyard has been harvested.
Take, for example, a field of sweet corn. Did you know that […]
Support eliminating sales tax on fruits, vegetables in Kansas
From Lisa Ousley: After the Harvest is encouraging Kansans to support the efforts of KC Healthy Kids, the organization leading the charge to eliminate sales tax on fresh fruits and vegetables in Kansas in 2015.
Senate Bill 263 applies to “all sales of fresh, unprepared fruits, vegetables, honey and herbs for human consumption that are not […]
Forum focuses on more healthy food for Wyandotte Co.
From Karin Page:
Sandy Vivian and I attended the Healthy Communities Wyandotte “Food Matters Forum” this week. The forum was organized by Danielle Landrum of HCW and held to answer the questions, “How can we help get more produce into the community?” and “What does the community need to use this produce?”.
Thirty food pantries from Wyandotte […]
Gleaning Effort Tips the Scale Today at 1400 Pounds
Today we gleaned 1400 lb apples, 500 lb tomatoes, and salvaged another 1,000 lb tomatoes that were already boxed up for us. Tonight I will lead another gleaning and get another 1400 lb apples, possibly more! Tomorrow we will start all over again gleaning apples and salvaging another 500 lb. tomatoes. Woo-hoo! If you can […]
August 7-9: Gleaning in St. Joe, KCK
Karin reports:
I have been….. gleaning! Today we picked 665 lbs. peppers, tomatoes, yellow squash, cucumbers and eggplant from St. Gabriel’s Youth Garden. North Missouri Produce Auction donated 2,172 lb. of green beans, and Kottowitz Farm donated 2,000 lbs. of tomatoes. Tomorrow 8/7 and Saturday 8/9, we will be in St. Joseph picking blackberries and Friday, 8/8 […]
New Gleaning Organization: After The Harvest
Important message from Lisa Ousley & Karin Page re: New gleaning organization
Hello Everyone!
SoSA West closed on May 9th and we re-opened May 19th as After The Harvest. We are now a LOCALLY based hunger relief non-profit, gleaning fields and orchards and finding semi-truckloads of produce to feed hungry people. Being local will allow us to […]
Gleaning Lettuce June 11 in Kingsville, Missouri
Hello Everyone!
We were rained out for today’s gleaning. We will try again tomorrow, Wednesday, June 11, 8:00 a.m. Powell Gardens has their own volunteers to pick the lettuce, we need 2-3 volunteers to re-pack the lettuce from lugs into cardboard boxes and help transport the lettuce to pantries.
Call 816-853-4460 if you can help pack, glean, […]
Volunteer Opportunities June 8 and 10
Hello Everyone!
Spring was slow in coming, but now we are in the midst of gleaning season and need volunteers!
Sunday, June 8th, 8 am - 11 am. I need 10-20 people to work at Josiah Chumba’s lovely urban farm in Raytown. Josiah is an amazing man: he grows food not only for himself, but for his […]
