Wikipedia Articles
Food and Art Activism
Fallen Fruit, L.A. group that started with a "Public Fruit" project mapping all the fruit on or overhanging public spaces
Gleaning and Related Programs
California
Ag Against Hunger, gleaning organized by growers in the Salinas Valley, California
Farm to Pantry (Sonoma County)
Senior Gleaners (Sacramento)
Hidden Harvest (Coachella), paying experienced, low income field workers to glean
Gleanings for the Hungry (a Youth With A Mission project)
Washington
Harvest Against Hunger, a gleaning project of Rotary First Harvest in Washington State
Oregon
Portland Fruit Tree Project, an urban fruit gleaning project in Portland, Oregon
Arizona
Arizona Statewide Gleaning Project
Iskashitaa Refugee Network gleans backyards and fields in Tucson with refugees from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
"Gleaning Tucson" is a lovely article in Edible Baja Arizona on refugees gleaning
Multi-State and Other States
Society of St. Andrews Gleaning Network
MySpace video of Gleanings for the Hungry
YouTube "official" video introducing Gleanings for the Hungry
USDA's "A Citizen's Guide to Food Recovery"
Report on the 1996 AmeriCorps Summer of Gleaning
ComLinks Cooperative Gleaning (New York State)
World Hunger Year
Building The Bridge:
Linking Food Banking and Community Food Security
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highlights programs in many communities
Legal Protection for Gleaners
USDA
Gleaning Crops Factsheet [ 30KB]
Text of federal Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act (from USDA)
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