A Record-Breaking Season For Blueberries This week, Willing Hands held its final blueberry glean of the season. What a bountiful harvest it’s been! Over seven weeks, Willing Hands volunteers gleaned 2,635 pounds of blueberries from our partner farms and orchards. That’s the most blueberries gleaned by Willing Hands since 2017—and the most ever! Volunteers Made It Possible […]
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Willing Hands Begins Work to Double Negative Carbon Footprint More than a year ago, we set out with an ambitious goal: measure the climate impact of our work, and then identify ways to double that impact. With support and guidance from a group of community climate leaders, we identified and refined dozens of strategies for
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Reducing Food Waste is a Climate Solution Climate change is a big, daunting issue. It’s clear that we must take meaningful action. The good news is that reducing food waste is one of the most exciting community-scale climate solutions. According to Project Drawdown, a resource on climate solutions, reducing food waste is one of the
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Every week, Ross Edwards quietly sorts boxes of wholesale produce in the Willing Hands warehouse alongside our Warehouse Coordinator, Scott. The good-looking food goes straight on the delivery truck, the too-far-gone items go straight in the compost, and everything in between will be carefully sorted by volunteers the following day. The work can be slimy
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