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%203.jpg "End of Season Gleaning Banner (Facebook Post) 3") Rest is Here!!!!
The 2025 season has commenced with final gleans taking place at Schreiber Farms. The total for the season was 137,360 pounds harvested and transported to local food banks! That is over 45k more than last season! This brings the overall total to 3,112,390 finally breaching the 3 million mark just as we enter into our 20th anniversary in 2026!!! Season of Giving- Year End Fundraising Campaign At this season’s end we aim to raise a total of $10k to help continue our vital services to the community! We can efficiently run on a budget of under $40,000/ year. This budget includes a part-time employee, taxes, accounting, insruances, licenses, postage, and maintanence. Consider making a tax-deductable donation to help us reach our goal!! 2 Ways to Donate Alternative Ways to Support 2025 Season Update This season we implemented the Common Fruit Database YAY a system for signing up to volunteer and tracking gleans! We funded this with a grant from the 3 Rivers Community Foundation! This opened the door to many folks who quickly became fruit flies! A lot of little ones and their families joined us this season teaching service to a wide range of hearts! With this same grant from 3 Rivers Community Foundation new tires for the trailers were purchased and put on at the beginning of the season. With new tires came new drivers, and folks willing to load up their vehicles to help share food! The Washington Food Coalition annual meeting invited us to join them as a tour stop, we were on the map at WSU Commercial Vegetable Research Plots for an onion glean! It was a HOT 2pm day, but Gary Middleton came to speak to the group who came from all over Washington state. Food Bank Directors, WSDA employees, farmers, food rescue teams, are all walks that came to join our glean on the annual meeting tour stop! It is so important to share our mission and nourish relationships of all kinds. New corporate volunteer friends joined us from Lamb Weston and Lineage Logistics! We could plan for group events by staying in touch with WSU Commercial Vegetable plots in Pasco and planning for gleans a few weeks out. We gained new monetary support from Gesa Credit Union, Game Inc., NW Biologic, and Wheatland Bank. We continue to look for creative ways to diversify our funding streams! New distribution partners joined our team! Seventh Day Adventist Services in Pasco, Hungry Generation Church, B5, Community Action Connections, and Jubilee Ministries in Prosser were all new relationships gained this season who help to serve our neighbors in need. We could not do what we do without these partners! Our monetary needs are quite great even while operating on a growing level. We continue to pray and work towards sharing our mission with the community and inviting them to join us in a solution to food waste that helps to solve hunger. If you know of someone who could help, please let us know, we can plan a presentation to share in depth about our services. Photos from the 2025 Season
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