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After the Harvest rescues nutritious fruits and vegetables from going to waste and donates them to agencies that serve hungry people in KC.

It's Friday and we're kicking off the weekend by h

It's Friday and we're kicking off the weekend by helping out our good friends at St. Isidore’s Garden again!

ATH volunteers helped in the vegetable patch using the farm’s leaf pile to mulch between 15 rows of vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, basil, zucchini and cucumbers) and around the edges of the field.

This is an important part of the growing process, because that mulch will retain water to make it easier to walk down the rows for maintenance and harvest, and will be tilled under in the Fall to add nutrients to the soil.

We can’t wait for the harvest!
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Do you... ✔️ Live around Lee's Summit? ✔️

Do you...
✔️ Live around Lee's Summit?
✔️ Have free time on Saturday afternoons?
✔️ Love volunteering your time?
✔️ Hate food waste?

Well, we have some great news for you!

We are looking for volunteers to join our Produce Rescue Driver Team to lead the downtown Lee's Summit Farmers Market on a regular basis. If you are available every Saturday or every other Saturday, shoot us a message and we'll get you started!

Learn more about our Produce Rescue Driver Team: link in bio.
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Did you know @jfskc hosts a Neighborhood Market ev

Did you know @jfskc hosts a Neighborhood Market every Friday during June and July at their Brookside location?

This weekly outdoor market allows JFS to provide fresh produce to pantry clients and neighbors and promotes healthy eating opportunities, increases variety and choice, reduces food waste and connects families with other services they may need through KesherKC.

After the Harvest donates over 200 lbs. each week to share at the market, and our Volunteer Yambassador Nancy is also making an appearance to talk about our impact in the community in addition to fresh produce donations.
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Holy moly! 💚 Thank you to the 30 volunteers fro

Holy moly!
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Thank you to the 30 volunteers from Village Presbyterian Church who helped us glean 308 lbs. of mustard greens, collard greens and turnip greens!
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They even got to taste some turnips, and surprise--they liked them!
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Very excited to have this wonderful group out again.
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Teamwork makes the glean work! Sometimes you need

Teamwork makes the glean work!

Sometimes you need a little help reaching those cherries high up in the tree 🍒

We love having kiddos in the field with us! It's a fun and educational experience for them as they get to learn about farming, sustainability and how they can help feed hungry people in Kansas City.

Sign up to glean with your whole family today: link in bio
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It's always a good day when you can start it off a

It's always a good day when you can start it off at St. Isidore’s Garden!

Members of our VEG Squad spent their morning learning the proper way to distribute straw and cage tomato plants thanks to farmer Norm.

One of Norm's pro-tips: Spray your shirt with mosquito spray and hang it up the night before you need it!

Join the Vegetable Emergency Glean Squad, our quick response team that comes together on short notice for weekday morning produce gleanings today: link in bio.
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❤️ THANK YOU!! ❤️ ❤️ Thank You to eve

❤️ THANK YOU!! ❤️

❤️ Thank You to everyone who came out to the outdoor screening of "Wasted! The Story Of Food Waste" on Saturday! It was a beautiful night for food waste education!

❤️ Thank You Premier Integrative Health, Compost Collective KC and The Big Rip Brewing Company for making this event possible!

❤️ Thank You to our wonderful Yambassadors Suzy, Nancy and her daughter for talking to movie-goers about After the Harvest!
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🚨Updated Event Location🚨 Our original venue

🚨Updated Event Location🚨
Our original venue permit fell through and we were forced to find a new location to hold this event. Thanks to our amazing friends at @bigripbrewingco... we found one!

Premier Integrative Health, After the Harvest and Compost Collective KC are collaborating for a one-of-a-kind outdoor KC community event!

We invite you and your friends to join us for an outdoor screening of WASTED! The Story Of Food Waste produced by Anthony Bourdain.

If you are looking to explore simple ways YOU can live cleaner, give more, and waste less, we invite you to join us under the stars on June 5th at The Big Rip Brewing Company. 🙌
Register for this outdoor event at the link in our bio!

A few details you need to know about the location change:
📍 Off-street parking is available and abundant in this area. Please refrain from parking across the street at Ryerson.
📍 This community cinema celebration is FREE and open to all ages!
📍 We will be set up in the parking lot of Big Rip Brewing Company's parking lot in North Kansas City. Look for the 16- foot tall inflatable projector screen, you can't miss it!
📍 The event begins at 7:30 pm, and the screening will begin at sundown (8:35 pm) Before the screening, you will have the opportunity to connect with local businesses and organizations specializing in community building, food security and environmental restoration.
📍 This event is BYOP- Bring Your Own Picnic!
📍 Compost Collective KC will provide on-site composting buckets to transform your food scraps into nutrient-dense compost that will help grow nutritious food for you and your community.
📍 Please refrain from bringing outside alcoholic beverages. If you'd like to indulge in an adult beverage during the movie, we encourage you to support local and buy a drink from The Big Rip Brewing Co.
📍 Blankets, lawn chairs, pouch couches and bean bags are all encouraged!

We are so excited to share this entertaining and educational documentary with you 🤗

Mr. Tate is an experienced gleaner so we decided t

Mr. Tate is an experienced gleaner so we decided to promote him this morning to Records Manager. He counted all of the bags of harvested greens, and even reported out totals 📋

Thank you, Tate, for making sure our pounds were accurate today!
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"How important it is for us to recognize and celeb

"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"—Maya Angelou

After the Harvest staff wishes you a happy and safe Memorial Day.
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Welcome to ATH Board members! The volunteers who

Welcome to ATH Board members!

The volunteers who sit on the After the Harvest Board of Directors serve a vital role in keeping our organization on sound financial ground and always making sure that our mission of bringing healthy food to hungry people is accomplished in the best way possible.

Help us welcome the first of our three new Board Members: Alex Greenwood: Managing Principal of @alexgpr, a public relations consultancy.

Learn more about Alex at aftertheharvestkc.org
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Thanks to the wonderfully unpredictable Midwest we

Thanks to the wonderfully unpredictable Midwest weather, we have rescheduled this event to Friday, June 5.

Have you registered for Cinema Under the Stars yet?
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We are teaming up with @premier_integrative_health and @compostcollectivekc to bring you an outdoor screening of WASTED! The Story Of Food Waste.
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Through the eyes of famous chefs, you will see how they make the most of every kind of food, transforming what most people consider scraps into incredible dishes that create a more secure food system.
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Our Executive Director, Lisa Ousley, will be part of the panel discussion, and Compost Collective KC will provide on-site composting buckets to transform your food scraps into nutrient-dense compost that will help grow nutritious food for you and your community!
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Bring a picnic, socially distance and enjoy! Register for this free event today: link in bio.
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Rain, rain, go away 🌧️ The spring and early

Rain, rain, go away 🌧️

The spring and early summer is always a challenging time to plan gleanings, plantings and other volunteer events.
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An odd early spring and recent rains have slowed down our field operations a bit, but we've continued to see steady donations from pickups and expect to see things ramp up in the field as we head into the summer months.
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Summer is right around the corner 🌞 so join us in the fields and sign up to glean: link in bio
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Community Gardens can be anywhere, even smack dab

Community Gardens can be anywhere, even smack dab in the middle of downtown Kansas City! The #18Broadway Community Garden on the busy corner of 18th & Broadway has over 100 beds and huge concrete planters of vegetables, herbs, fruit and flowers.

The goal of this garden is to educate and inspire visitors on the use of the space and how to tend their own gardens and its design demonstrates sustainability through renewable energy, storm water management and food production.

Last year volunteer gleaners harvested 200 lbs. of fresh produce, including cherries, sweet potatoes and winter squash.
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Yesterday we celebrated the official kick off of t

Yesterday we celebrated the official kick off of the gleaning season with our annual VEG Squad Beet 'n' Greet event.
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What's the VEG Squad? This group of amazing volunteers are our Vegetable Emergency Glean Squad, our quick response team that comes together on short notice for weekday morning produce gleanings.
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Want to become a part of this very important team? Sign up today: link in bio
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A huge shout out to Mary Dees who made the delicious goodies, @bdcoffeehouse for donating the fuel for the morning and @lenexahyvee for the cookies! Thank you so much for your kind and generous donations!
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Why is some lettuce purple? "Purple" lettuce is a

Why is some lettuce purple?

"Purple" lettuce is actually red leafy lettuce and is part of the daisy family.

This stand-out lettuce has names like Ruby, Red Fire and Merlot. Yes, like the wine!

There are several types of purple-colored lettuce:
💜 Butterhead lettuce include Pybas Red Butter, Sweet Red and Sangria
💜 Romaine variations include Cimmaron and the dark purple Red Leprechaun
💜 "Speckled" has splashes of purple on green leaves

Last week volunteer gleaners harvested over 100 lbs. of these beauties at @juniperhillfarmsks!
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Ever wonder what the benefits are to growing in a

Ever wonder what the benefits are to growing in a greenhouse? Among the many great things greenhouses offer, here are a few of our favorites:

✔️ Weather Protection- Especially in the Midwest, weather can be a bit unpredictable. With a greenhouse, you have more control over the climate.

✔️ More Plant Options- Because of the humid climate, you can grow more warm-season produce, and even tropical plants.

✔️ Longer Growing Season- Greenhouses offer the opportunity to grow year-round and with a longer growing time for some produce without the weather risk.

✔️ Pest Prevention- Produce is protected from deer, insects, birds, moles, etc. eating plants and produce. Plus, certain chemical pesticides can be avoided when that risk is eliminated.

All of these benefits are incredibly helpful to After the Harvest since many of our growers cultivate in greenhouses (or hoop houses) and donate their extra to feed our hungry neighbors.

What are you favorite benefits of a greenhouse?
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Our Gleaners were busy this morning harvesting nea

Our Gleaners were busy this morning harvesting nearly 300 lbs. of mustard greens from a field just across the street from the main greenhouse at @citybittyfarm and were able to provide greens to nearby partners at Raytown Emergency Assistance Program and Bishop Sullivan Center for their pantry events.
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City Bitty Farm grows mainly microgreens, but use their old microgreen dirt to add fertility to the soil. Apparently, within that soil were mustard seeds, and because of the soil's fertility, they grew a bunch next to one of their greenhouses! A microgreen gift!
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Want to join us in the field? Sign up to glean now: link in bio
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Join #ReFED for a new webinar series designed to h

Join #ReFED for a new webinar series designed to help you make the most of their Insights Engine and Roadmap to 2030: Reducing U.S. Food Waste by 50%.

Each installment will dig deep into one of the seven key action areas of the Roadmap to 2030, exploring what’s happening on the ground, what challenges to reducing food waste remain, which solutions can make an impact, and how solution providers are already bringing them to life.

Hear from experts across the food system – from food businesses to funders, innovators to policymakers, and more – will participate in lively conversations about what needs to be done to reach our goal of a 50% reduction in food waste by 2030.

Sign up now at refed.com
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Fourth tier on the @epagov's #FoodRecoveryHierarch

Fourth tier on the @epagov's #FoodRecoveryHierarchy: Industrial Uses.
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Although we highly recommend the first two tiers, the lower tiers are other ways food recovery suggestions from @USDAgov.
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Food can be used to not only feed people and animals, but also power your car or generator. There is increasing interest in finding effective means to obtain biofuel and bio-products from wasted food.
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These options aim to alleviate some of the environmental and economic issues associated with wasted food while increasing the use of alternative energy sources.
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What tips do you have to help reduce waste at the source?
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