“I am reminded that farmers dig dirt and play on big tractors with especially big hearts. Truthfully, our gleaning partners and farm families are the most generous people I have ever met. Please join them with a heart of caring to help bring hope into the lives of food insecure families in our community. Please join Project SHARE to help glean a bountiful harvest during the 2020 gleaning season.” – Steve Kuhn
We are set to begin gleaning on Monday, June 22nd and will depart at 5:30 PM. We will be meeting at 5 North Orange Street location before heading out to our farmer’s fields.
We are anticipating another outstanding year (138,000 lbs in 2019), while taking necessary precautions to help keep all safe. Fortunately 100s of acres, that we glean, are vast enough to allow Volunteers to safely social distance. It will be especially nice to breath in some good country air.
Precautions will include hand sanitizing stations in the fields and encouraging all of our Volunteers to wear masks. We will separate into smaller harvesting crews in different parts of our farmer’s fields. Gleaners are to ride to farms with their trusted companions. Project SHARE will not be able to provide transportation during the 2020 gleaning season. Loading produce onto our trucks will be limited to a few Volunteers. We ask all to stay home if they are not feeling well. We will ask each Volunteer, on the day, how they are feeling. Volunteers should bring their own marked water containers, but in the event that dehydration could occur we will still have water available. It will be distributed by a Project SHARE staff member wearing rubber gloves instead of each Volunteer reaching into one water cooler. Prior to each trip into farmer’s fields, we will have a short safety orientation along with specialized instructions about gleaning.
We are anticipating that our gleaning program will look different during the 2020 season and that it will be challenging to be able to harvest all of the amazing produce available. We anticipate smaller. All Volunteers must sign in to our Project SHARE’s Volunteer website at: projectsharepa.volunteerhub.com/ prior to arriving to glean so that we can maintain numbers to insure safe social distancing. Project SHARE will be trying to glean smart as we provide many more opportunities not just Monday nights for groups but to provide opportunities for groups to customize their own gleaning experience on Wednesdays and Fridays. Please contact Steve Kuhn at skuhn@projectsharepa.org or call him at 717-385-0682 to set up an amazing opportunity to provide food to feed families in our communities.
MORE DETAILS and DIRECTIONS at: https://projectsharepa.org/gleaning/
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