WGN Meeting Archive
This site documents past WGN meetings, including meeting recordings, presentation slides and other resources shared. Meetings are organized by year and month. A YouTube playlist (below) also contains all recorded WGN meetings to date.
Click the image to the left (or click here) to access our full YouTube meeting playlist (which includes meetings from before 2025) or see below for a monthly breakdown of meetings from this year.
Previous WGN Monthly Meetings
From 2025:
January 2025
This meeting’s discussion centered around Systems Thinking, a chance to pull back and see the big picture of where we fit in the larger food recovery universe. We considered how we are all interconnected, how we define our models and what perspective that gives us to design our programs.
February 2025
This meeting featured Meghan Moore of Hopelink and Rebeca Bonila Myers of Oxbow Farms to talk through strategies for developing and reviving relationships with farmers for the upcoming season.
Presentation slides:
This meeting featured Faith Whaley of Christ the King Food Share and Farm, digging into the timely topic of cultivating distribution partners for the coming season. She discussed her very organized system of how to organize partners into “tiers”, how to choose what partner to distribute how much food to, scheduling, delivery, pick up and more.
The meeting brought together food access leaders from across Washington to strengthen connections between Farm to Food Pantry and the WGN. Juggling multiple roles, organizing daily priorities, and managing diverse staffing structures were just some of the points in this awesome discussion on the challenges we all share of Wearing Many Hats.
Food safety and waste prevention are such a vital part of our work, but it’s a topic that does not get as much light as it should. Today we explored food waste prevention for gleaners featuring Elise Bauman, ED of Salem Harvest, OR as she shared her tried and true expertise with us!
coming soon…