Spinach gleaning with Rebecca, Carly and Emily (w/son along for the ride). This was the program's very first official glean.

Since then we have recovered and donated over 388,034 pounds or more than 1 million servings of healthy fresh local food to those in need in our community.

Cary on her first day volunteering w/CHCV in 2016! She has now volunteered over 105 times during the last three seasons.

Julie Vigdor all loaded up for a delivery run - it looks to be about full! Julie donated 112 hours of her time in 2020, cloth face cover and all.

In 2021 more than 100 donors contributed to the purchase of our new van, that we finally got in January of 2023. The van will allow us to move much larger quantities at a time and control the temperature of the space when needed.

Theresa Snow from Salvation Farms joins us for a glean.  With the Vermont Gleaning Collective and Theresa's help and support we got the program off to a great start in 2014. 

Since 2016 when CHCV started gleaning at the end of the Montpelier Farmer's Market, we have gleaned 9,000 pounds that was left after market. We collect what vendors do not sell and have no other need for at market’s end.

Our gleaning (and delivering) truck was brand new in 2015 and still going strong.

Car loads of food ready to go to partner sites feeding our neighbors.

Beautiful cherry tomatoes recovered from Bear Roots Farm in 2018

What better thing to do on a Saturday morning than glean blueberries with CHCV.

Allison Levin, CHCV Director leading a chard glean. Some of the 450 pounds of chard CHCV gleaned in July 2014 at Dog River Farm.

All are having fun - some doing more eating than others.

The Landis-Marinello clan lend many hands to the effort - let's get more kids learning about the local food system.

A big team helped glean 151 pounds of blueberries at Singing Pines Farm in 2017. Those pictured and others too. Thanks everyone for all your help. 

The team helped glean some of the 5,790 pounds of beets that CHCV has recovered over the last three seasons. Thanks!

2016 was a big garlic gleaning year!

Two plus classes from NECI joined us to help clean garlic and beets and glean tomatoes all as part of their education about the local food system. Thanks Gleaners!

Gleaners - Kasi, Esther, Rebecca, Robin and Cynthia - help to clean, weigh and box some of the 2,500 pounds of cabbage CHCV has gleaned from Dog River Farm over three seasons.

We finished our new cooler in 2016 w/the help of 60 volunteers, 18 businesses donating their time and materials.  Neil Husher led the building project and Rogers Farmstead hosts the cooler on their farm. Thanks to all!

Peter Jungkunst invited us to glean his two plum trees. Over 100 pounds of plums resulted.

Before we can glean we need volunteers!    Signing up new volunteers, some fun games and information sharing too.  Thanks National Life Group Foundation for all your support!

It takes many dedicated hands to glean 321 pounds of beans.

In 2017 CHCV gleaned 773 pounds of pears from 6 trees. And 1,832 pounds in 2024 from 11 trees.

Thanks to four local community members for sharing their bounty!

The U32 Transition Academy team helps get bags ready for corn on their first day volunteering weekly with CHCV in 2014.

What a treat to get to glean raspberries from Moonlight Farm

 In 2016 we gleaned over 6,000 pounds of cucumbers from Dog River Farm.  The UVM TREK Team joined us again for a long afternoon of heavy hot work.  Thanks to all the groups that partner with us.  

The first week in Sept 2015 was a busy one.   We gleaned all these kinds of crops. 

So many peppers.  Thanks gleaners for picking all evening at Moonlight Farm in late summer 2015.  Gleaning until dark got us almost 650 pounds of yummy sweet peppers.

10 volunteers including Robin, Ethan  and Joel here enjoy a lovely afternoon and good conversation while cleaning onions.

New decals keep CHCV visible all round town and in the fields too.

In 2017 CHCV gleaned over 2,200 pounds of tomatoes over three gleans from Cate Farms greenhouses at the end of the season. 

Thanks Cate Farm for the 17,000 pounds of tomatoes you offered us to glean and keep from ending up in the compost pile over the last nine years.

A team from Youth Build makes fast work of the beet field.

Tony our long time delivery driver double checks his delivery sheet. Some of the 3,900 plus pounds of onions we have gleaned and donated in our first three seasons.

Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund staff glean in support of students striking

We gleaned 545 pounds of potatoes at VT Technical College in 2015 in addition to 3,700 pounds of apples.  Thanks to our dedicated potato gleaners for all their hard work!

Laura, Krysta, Alexandra and seven others join us for our second corn glean of the week -- 1,650 pounds of corn gleaned from Bob Miller in 2014, thanks everyone!

In 2013, before we started the program, we learned there was a lot of food to glean.

Erin, Amy and Scott enjoying some fresh air, sun and good old dirt on a lovely fall day in 2017.  A good introduction to gleaning

Carrot gleaning at Dog River Farm. Dan joined us for the first time in 2015.

In 2022 we gleaned apples with more than 4 bus loads of students and chaperones from local schools and many other groups for a grand total of 14,000 pounds of apples gleaned.

Up from 5,000 pounds in 2015, 6,600 in 2018, 12,600 in 2019, 10,700 in 2020, and 12,500 in 2021.

2014 was the year of winter squash

Berlin Elementary students learn about fruits and vegetables and math at the same time.  CHCV partners with teachers using a "Mystery Box" of gleaned produce each week to help students use vegetables as a tool for learning (and then eating).

Over 50 students, staff, and parents gleaned and packed 5,000 pounds of winter squash in under 2 hours in 2015.

Cate Farm invited us to help clean out their greenhouses again in 2018. We gleaned and donated 2,291 pounds of tomatoes, all of which they did not have to move to the compost.

Valentine Farm not only donated 721 pounds of lovely potatoes, but also helped us use their washer to get them all nice and clean before we donated them to partner sites.

Sorting so many tomatoes by color.

Jeff gleans rutabaga at Littlewood Farm

Cary sets off to deliver a truck full of boxes of produce to area organizations feeding people with limited access to healthy, fresh local food. 49,742 pounds was donated by CHCV to sites in 2018.

Another lovely fall day at Kettle Song Farm gleaning leaves from 5,000 brussels sprout plants. We gleaned 970 pounds of leaves in 2016 filled w/ goodness and tastier and more beautiful than collards.

Jim Turner helps get gleanings ready to be delivered to partner sites. Some of the hundreds of hours he has volunteered with CHCV.

Sue and  Diana enjoying the carrot bounty. One of our last big gleans of 2014. 

The SPUDS group from the Unitarian Church of Montpelier joined us for one last apple glean in spite of the rain.

National Life Group employees have fun cleaning leeks, gleaned from High Mowing Organic Seeds test fields.

Cynthia and Robin enjoy one of the last beautiful fall days of 2015 in the kale field.  What could be better!

900 pounds of Daikon -- Allison gets a pallet ready for the Foodbank.

Dottye and Cary show off their hard work after gleaning at Littlewood Farm in 2016.  The team filled the truck bed with kale and rutabagas before filling the seats up front with beets.  Now that's a full truck.

Only just one little spot for Susie to sit and clean leeks in the cooler. And the picture does not even show all the apple boxes stacked up in three corners of the room to the ceiling.

35 individual gleaners and Salvation Farms joined us at Bear Roots Farm in Williamstown for a huge potato glean. We gleaned 2,222 pounds from under the snow and ice before it got really too cold for the potatoes. Thanks dedicated CHCV gleaners!

Keeping busy will keep you warmer when gleaning potatoes from under the snow and ice.

Volunteers Susie and Jim, helping to deliver some hubbard squash CHCV received from the Willing Hands program of the Upper Valley.

43 gleaners, 3,585 pounds of carrots gleaned from Bear Roots Farm in late November 2021

You can keep warm when you are working hard!

Julie Hook joined us for the first time on this 25 degree day to glean leeks on a windy hillside in Cabot. And she came back after that for more!!!

36 gleaners, 3,243 pound of carrots gleaned on Dec 3rd.

Julie with all the food she is about to deliver to food shelves and senior meal sites.