In an article about gleaning, an age-old practice that involves collecting leftover crops from farmers’ fields after a harvest, Modern Farmer highlighted that in 2000, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension launched Maine Harvest for Hunger, an organization focused on expanding access to food and reducing food waste from farms. Since its start over two […]
WMTW (ABC 8 in Portland) featured Maine Harvest for Hunger, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension program that connects farmers and food producers to volunteers in order to provide local food to Mainers suffering from food insecurity. Since 2000, the Maine Harvest for Hunger program has used volunteers to harvest and distribute over 3.4 million […]