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Harvesting Organizations Directory
There are an increasing number of like-minded groups which harvest or
collect fruit or produce for charitable purposes. The list below is
incomplete but may help our web site visitors locate a group in their
location, either to donate their extra fruit/produce or to volunteer.
Harvesting and related charitable organizations: please send us
your name, organization information, and contact information for
consideration for this list, or to update/correct the posted information.
Please note that Village Harvest cannot assume any responsibility for the
activities of the groups listed, or accuracy of information provided to us
by others. Groups listed may or may not be official 501(c)(3)
charitable organizations.
Harvesting / Gleaning Programs Directory
California
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Berkeley, CA:
North Berkeley
Harvest is an unofficial group of friends and volunteers who pick and
share fruit with local food initiatives. (510) 812-3369 or
northberkeleyharvest@gmail.com
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Fresno, CA: Fresno
Plant A Row for the Hungry (PAR) coordinates Citrus Saturdays from
January - March and is interested in developing year-round gleaning
efforts. (559)456-4151/mailbox#2.
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Long Beach, CA: SoCal Harvest
is a volunteer organization in Long Beach, established in January 2009, to
allow home gardeners to share extra produce and fruit with needy local
families.
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Los Angeles, CA: Food
Forward is an all volunteer grassroots group who care about
reconnecting to the food system and making change around urban hunger.
Several times a month they convene at a private property and glean excess
fruit for local food pantries.
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Los Angeles / San Fernando Valley, CA: Citrus Sunday is an
annual community event - in 2009, on May 3 - with residents and community
groups picking thousands of pounds of citrus from homes for distribution
through Valley food banks. Organized by
Valley Interfaith Council
(VIC) and LA Council Member
Greig Smith. For
more information visit
www.CD12.org or (818) 756-8501.
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Orange County, CA: The Harvest
Club is a volunteer group that helps people primarily in the
Huntington Beach/Costa Mesa/Fountain Valley areas who have excess produce,
then passes it on to local nonprofits. Contact through the web site,
theharvestclub@gmail.com, or
(714) 847-8669 to volunteer or offer extra backyard fruit or vegetables.
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Palo Alto, CA:
EcoMagic, coordinates volunteer harvesters in Palo Alto
for EcoMagic. The fruit they harvest is used to support their
environmental education cooperative. (650) 323-7333
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Riverside, CA / Inland Empire:
Inland
Empire Urban Harvesting is a new (2009) volunteer group picking neighborhood fruit from overflowing fruit trees and
donating the fresh fruit to the local Food Bank, Second Harvest Food Bank
and others in need. (link no longer active - contact Village Harvest with
updates).
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Sacramento, CA:
Harvest
Sacramento is a collaborative volunteer effort started in 2009 to
harvest fruit and vegetables from backyards and small orchards and donate
it to local food agencies. (530) 204-8082,
harvestsacramento@gmail.com
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Sacramento, CA:
Senior Gleaners,
This volunteer run organization gleans from farmers, packing houses,
regional supermarkets, and other suppliers to supplement the nutritional
needs of the hungry in the Sacramento region. (916) 925-3240.
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San Diego, CA:
Senior Gleaners,
are all volunteers of 55 years of age and over. They volunteer their
time and labor in gleaning surplus food from gardens, fields, groves and
regional supermarkets to supplement the hungry and poor.
(619) 582-2299.
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Greater San Francisco Bay Area:
Village Harvest is an 8-year
old nonprofit volunteer organization harvesting extra fruit from backyards
and small orchards to provide food for the hungry, and providing education
on fruit tree care, harvesting, and using fruit. In 2009, 900
volunteers harvested 173,000 lbs. Headquartered in
San Jose but with volunteer teams serving communities in Santa Clara, San
Mateo, Santa Cruz, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Yolo Counties.
www.villageharvest.org , (888)
FRUIT-411 (888-378-4841).
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San Francisco, CA:
SF Glean is a new
(2009) volunteer project to harvest fruit and nut trees and donate the
harvest to various food programs in our San Francisco communities.
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Santa Barbara, CA:
Backyard Bounty is a program of the Food Bank of Santa Barbara County,
harvesting fruits and vegetables from private properties in the area and
distributing to those in need. jroeh57004@aol.com, (805) 896 - 4724.
Oregon
West
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Maui, HI:
Waste Not Want Not is an new (2009) group collecting unwanted fruit
for distribution to those in need on Maui.
james@waste-not-want-not.org
or (808) 874-8038
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Moscow and Lewiston, ID:
The Backyard
Harvest collects fresh fruit and vegetables for local food banks and
meal programs.
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Seattle, WA: Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle (www.gleanit.org).
Harvesting residential fruit trees for local food banks, and more.
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Victoria BC, Canada:
The Fruit Tree Project,
harvests small orchards and backyard trees for the hungry and to share
amongst their volunteers. (604)873-1191
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