Gleaning is a food security effort from the ground up that reintroduces on-farm food rescue as a cultural shift towards a more resourceful, healthy and community-based way of life.
Blue Hill Blondes John and Betty Tyler sell over 1000lbs of grass-fed USDA beef every year, to restaurants and individuals in Blue Hill, and through www.FarmDrop.org These farmers choose to serve smaller markets in order to maintain a one cow per acre quality space ratio. The most important part of their work is keeping the hay dry, the grass healthy and the cows happy.
We all know food waste happens; we throw away last week’s leftovers or leave bananas on the kitchen
counter until they are black. Wasting food is somehow condoned: “It’s not that much food
I’m wasting, right?” The recently released ReFED report, A Roadmap to reduce U.S. Food Waste by 20%, shows that U.S. citizens throw away 27 million tons of food waste every
year, which has a value of 144 billion dollars.