The Gleaners' Kitchen

10/02/2016

We're cooking again for the HONK! Festival this year! Anybody want to help us dumpster (Oct. 5th-6th) and cook (Oct. 7th)?

This History of HONK! from Apis until now.

09/30/2016

We're cooking again for the HONK! Festival this year! Anybody want to help us dumpster and cook?

03/16/2016

god bless the grocery store employee who did this. food is art!

01/06/2016

01/04/2016

Collective action at work!

4,184 Cambridge residents age 12 and older voted in the Cambridge's second Participatory Budgeting process from December 5-12, 2015. 7 projects won a total of $600,000 in FY17 capital funding, including the Cambridge Prepared Food Rescue Freezer Van ($48,000)

http://pb.cambridgema.gov/foodvan

Short Description: Let’s feed the hungry in our city. A freezer van is the vital piece of equipment that would allow Cambridge and its partners to potentially double prepared food rescue deliveries from roughly 3,500 healthy frozen meals to 7,000 each week.

01/04/2016

Looks like we may be catching up with France after all...

"It's been an exciting fall in the world of food waste. In September, both the Obama Administration and the United Nations adopted ambitious targets to cut food waste in half by 2030. Last Friday, the G20 launched a Technical Platform to aid in the effort. And now, the Food Recovery Act goes beyond commitments to offer specific actions and policies that the U.S. can adopt now to significantly cut back on the amount of food wasted."

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dgunders/first_congressional_bill_to_re.html

Yesterday marked a critical pivot from good intention towards action in our nation's pursuit to waste less food: Congresswoman Chellie Pingree introduced the Food Recovery Act to Congress. With almost two dozen provisions, the bill has the potential to...

12/29/2015

Dried oyster mushrooms (pleurotus ostreatus)

12/27/2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRbj3hImZVE

In which Maximus and Rachael go camping on an island in the Susquehanna River, and teach you ecology

12/23/2015

**update** we decapitated her this morning. Turns out she was a watermelon radish!

from - Turnip queen contemplates her oyster kingdom. The day God was born.

12/23/2015

Radish Queen contemplates her Oyster Kingdom. The day God was born.

12/18/2015

"The new legislation allows individuals to set up associations, with the approval of the agriculture ministry, to collect and distribute food...It means that ordinary citizens can show their solidarity and help distribute this food to those who need it."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/10/france-vote-force-supermarkets-give-away-unsold-food-waste

Anti-food waste proposal, described as ‘a crucial measure for the planet’, passed unanimously in the Assemblée Nationale