Let the gleaning begin!
Faith Feeds will begin the 2011 gleaning season on Sunday, May 1, at the Lexington Farmers Market. Thereafter, we will be gleaning that market every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday until sometime in...
View ArticleTo Share with Our Volunteers
We look forward to another year of partnership with the Lexington Farmers Market and appreciate the wonderful support from the staff and growers. We ask Kentucky residents to learn more about the...
View ArticleNational Gleaning Week
Founded by Marin Organic, the first annual National Gleaning Day was on September 20, 2010 - 6 months after the birth of Faith Feeds. Marin’s wanted to unite communities, farms and schools across the...
View ArticleFood Day
Lexington Farmers’ Market and Faith Feeds Celebrate Food Day by Hosting Real Food Donation Drive Community event calls attention to food access issues in Lexington and celebrates national movement for...
View ArticleGleaning goes on…
This past week, Faith Feeds volunteers gleaned about 700 lbs of produce from the Lexington Farmers Market and Reed Valley Orchard. The produce went to LaRoca, the Men’s and Women’s Hope Centers, and...
View ArticleSeptember report and call for volunteers
During the month of September, Faith Feeds volunteers gathered more than 3,000 lbs of produce and delivered it to various emergency food agencies in Lexington. More than half of that came from Reed...
View ArticleReflections on 2010
What an amazing and successful season we had in our first year! Between mid-June and the end of November, forty volunteers collected approximately 37,500 lbs. of fresh food from farmers’ markets, local...
View ArticleGleaning report for week ending 15 August
Between Reed Valley Orchard, the Lexington Farmer’s Market, and the garden at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, approximately 1,089 pounds of food was gleaned this week. Donations went to the...
View ArticleGleaning report and call for volunteers
Last week, Faith Feeds gleaned about 500 lbs from the Lexington Farmers Market, and the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection donated about 30 lbs from their garden. Donations went to the the Lexington...
View ArticleReport for last week and new opportunities
Faith Feeds has now passed the 16,000 lb mark for this season! Thanks to the generosity of dozens of local growers and volunteers, hundreds of nutritionally underserved folks in our community have...
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