WGN Gleaning Resources
AGO Coffee Chat: Legal Issues impacting gleaners with Vermont Law School
AGO’s Coffee Chats: Monthly meetings hosted by AGO on a large variety of topics relevant to gleaning organizations around the country.
Gleaning Organizations in North America. A full contact list of gleaning organizations in North America, compiled by AGO during the 2020 Gleaning Census.
Center for Agriculture & Food Systems’ (CAFS) Community Resource Library A national network connecting modern field gleaning and food recovery organizations across the United States, as well as access to law and policy resources and other documents to help support the work of these organizations.
Food is Free’s How to Start a Food is Free Project. A .pdf document from the Food is Free Project that outlines the steps to creating a branch in your area.
Gleaning in Action with the USDA’s Snap-Ed program. SNAP-Ed programs across the country have set up successful gleaning programs by partnering with local organizations and volunteers. Learn more about some of these thriving programs and see how they were developed.
Also see Let’s Glean, USDA Gleaning Toolkit
The National Gleaning Project. This site provides information on national and state laws and regulations pertaining to gleaning, food recovery, and food donation; an interactive map of gleaning and food recovery organizations across the country; and reports and research created by the National Gleaning Project team.
Also see The National Gleaning Project: Guide to the Online Gleaning Resources Hub
Glean Kentucky Master Gleaner Webinar Serries. A 6-part YouTube webinar serries featuring videos between 10 – 30 minutes each on important gleaner topics such as: Gleaning from Farmers Markets, Saftey, Communication and more.
Falling Fruit.org Fruit Mapping Project. The Falling Fruit mapping project sees our cities flourishing with all kinds of food-bearing plants. There is a lot of fruit growing that we should be more aware and taking advantage of, and ideally building community around, so that in the future we can actually demand more, expect more from our city, that we can imagine a more edible, urban future. The hope is that the map will help to push the boundaries of what urban designers will consider planting.
How to start a high impact food rescue. Join Jen England, Food Rescue Hero’s Vice President of External Affairs, to learn more on the topic of food waste and food recovery, and how you can start your own food rescue operations to meet the growing needs in your community related to food insecurity.
Gleaning from the Neighborhood Farmers Markets – A step by step quick reference for how to connect with farmer’s markets an initiate gleans.
A Glimpse of Gleaning at Farmer’s Markets – a pamphlet arranged by Jewish Family Services to act as a guide of best practices and creative ways hunger relief programs can access farmers markets.