Become a Volunteer Gleaner
Get outside, meet your neighbors, reduce wasted food, and learn how local food is grown all while helping everyone in the community have access to healthy, fresh local food.
1 million pounds of produce in Washington County goes uneaten each season.
Help CHCV recover some of that food that is not able to be sold, but is still fresh and nutritious to eat.
Deliver
Help deliver the produce we recover to area organizations - food shelves, senior meal sites - feeding our neighbors.
Enter Data
Help track all the pounds of healthy fresh local food that local farms donate.
Glean
Work with us to harvest from local farm fields, pick up after farmers markets produce that is not able to be sold, etc.
Clean & Sort
Visit with other volunteers and help get produce ready to deliver. No lifting, bending, standing or walking required.
Outreach & Education
Hang posters, talk to others about our work out in the community.
In case you are wondering
The registration link takes you to the Vermont Gleaning Collective's site. As a member of the Vermont Gleaning Collective CHCV registers all our volunteers through the VGC site. To glean with CHCV choose Washington County as the county you want to volunteer in. Or pick other counties and other VGC member organizations from around VT will contact you about opportunities to get involved.
“Volunteering for Community Harvest makes me feel good about myself, Vermont, and our community.… I am proud to know that my efforts help feed our seniors and others less fortunate.…This organization is a symbol of why I moved to and love living in Vermont.”
“CHCV ensures more people have access to nutritious produce; it thickens the network of connections in the Vermont food system; it reduces the economic and environmental impact of wasted food; and it efficiently manages an ever-varying group of volunteers who want to give back to their community. I value supporting CHCV through volunteering and as a sustaining monthly donor.”
“I love being part of the CHCV team, and by extension, part of a movement to feed people good food.”
