Farm Trips

Our gleaning program offers free, pick-your-own trips to local farms for communities that access our food programs.

The visits typically happen in the summer and early fall, near the end of a crop's harvest. Instead of ploughing unharvested fruit or vegetables, farmers make their fields available, free of charge, to participants. Commonly gleaned crops include strawberries, raspberries, peas, beans, corn and apples.

The farms in our gleaning program also provide weekly donations of fresh produce that we distribute to our agency network. Thousands of pounds of produce were donated during the growing season and distributed through our network.

Participating Farms in 2012: