Hello VSN Members and Friends,

VSN's Food & Farm Initiative Kickapoo Harvest: Gleaning for Healthy Communities is looking for youth and adult volunteers to help us prepare fresh fruit and veggie boxes for our summer fresh food gleaning project. Fresh food boxes will be packaged with locally harvested fruit and veggies from Pat Slattery's Farm and Turkey Ridge. Boxes will be delivered to elderly residents at Parkview Manor in downtown Viroqua.

Interested in joining us on the farm for some harvesting fun? We are looking for volunteers to help us harvest gleanable produce and fruit this Friday, October 16th from approximately 12:30pm-4:00pm. We will meet at the old Dahl Pharmacy parking lot and carpool from there to two, possibly three, farm sites. Please bring your own gloves, harvesting knife, clippers or scissors (may not be needed) and harvesting bucket or box. We will have some to share but depending on the number of volunteers we may run out.

We are also looking for volunteers to help us out on Friday, October 16th from approximately 4:00-6:30pm at the Viroqua High School Cafeteria. Volunteers will be washing, sorting and packing harvested food into boxes that will be delivered on the morning of Saturday, October 17th.

For those who may be busy on Friday, consider joining us on Saturday, October 17th from 10am-12:00pm. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in delivering fresh food boxes to those residents at Parkview Manor who are participating in the project. Food boxes will be delivered on Saturday morning at the kitchen of Parkview Manor. During this time (11am) a local chef Frank Wildingway will be providing a 1 hour cooking demonstration to the residents. Volunteers can also help with the cooking demo by handing out taste samples and helping the chef in the kitchen.

The Food & Farm Initiative needs at least 10 volunteers to help cover the Friday (harvesting and fresh food box preparation) and Saturday (box delivery) events. Please call Nicole Penick (608) 637-8568 or email vsnnicole@gmail.com if you are interested.

Our past three Gleaning Events have been a growing success and many of us agree that this is our most meaningful work to date! Many thanks to our farmers and our volunteers!

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I hope to hear from you soon!

Nicole Penick

Food & Farm Initive Coordinator

Valley Stewardship Network

124 1/2 S. Main Street

Viroqua, Wisconsin 54665

 

(608) 637-3615

www.kickapoovsn.org

 

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