Category: GleanSLO

Earth Day: Examining the Environmental Impact of Food

The image highlights the environmental impact of food, showing a person recycling food with a sustainability message.

April 22nd is Earth Day, an awareness event emphasizing the need for environmental protection. As humans, we have a complicated relationship with our environment, one that is essential for us… Read more »

What Is Food Rescue?

Three people in a lemon grove, holding crates of lemons, engaged in harvesting.

If you’ve worked in a restaurant, browsed piles of produce at a grocery store, or driven behind trucks loaded with onions or potatoes and idly wondered how much of that… Read more »

All About Gleaning: Rescuing Nature’s Bounty

Two people under a tree hold a banner for GleanSLO, a food rescue program.

The SLO Food Bank Food Rescue program, Glean Program, harvests produce (called “gleaning”) that would otherwise go to waste from farms, orchards, and backyards and distribute it through our Hunger… Read more »

GleanSLO Program Co-Founder Carolyn Eicher on Food Rescue: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

A person wearing a white hat is standing next to an apple tree with red apples.

Carolyn Eicher is the heart, soul and co-founding innovator of a community movement that led to the creation of GleanSLO.