Bakerview Youth What's going on around Bakerview?

Gleaners!

We're heading to the Gleaners!

They are an organization that takes food that otherwise couldn't be used, and makes it useful. But I'll let them explain that to you best! From their website:

In short, we receive produce, chop, slice and dice, dry and mix, and then release our finished product into the hands of reliable, reputable distribution partners.

Fresh and frozen produce is picked up by our volunteer drivers on a daily basis. The volunteer staff next transform this produce into a cut-up, ready-for-the-dryer mix that will spend anywhere from 8 to 10 hours in an industrial-size drying unit.  The dried product is then scraped and barreled in anticipation of a future “mixing” date.

Once we have an entire season’s worth of dried items for our soup mix, the mixing lines are set up and several of the winter months are devoted to transforming individual barrels of vegetables into a tasty just-add-water soup mix.

In this same time period, we also complete the bagging of dried apple chips.

Youth starts at 6:30. Make sure you wear closed toed shoes.