Dan Smitley, a volunteer who usually is working disasters in Texas as an RN, is about to leave Haiti on one of his many trips to work with orphans, filed this report with us.
So far the 2010 harvest has yielded: Cucumbers: 1050 lbs; Green Beans: 145 lbs; Onions:1,800 lbs.; Peppers: 700 lbs.; Potatoes: 8,400 lbs.
All vegetables are picked by volunteers and sent to either the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank in Verona
and Winchester and the Capital Area Food Bank in Lorton.
You too can help on the harvest by going to the Calendar, pick your day, and register online. You will be serving others--your neighbors
Press Release: Volunteers Needed to Harvest Vegetables for the Hungry
The Volunteer Farm of
Shenandoah is calling for volunteers to help harvest tons of vegetables needed
to feed the hungry people through two food banks serving about a third of Virginia.
The farm is
harvesting beans, cucumbers, peppers, potatoes, and watermelon to be
distributed to feed more than 100,000 people per month through some 800 food
pantries, soup kitchens and similar outlets in 28 counties and 14 cities in Virginia.Besides the
food banks, the individual non-profit outlets may come directly to the farm to
haul vegetables.
Bob Blair,
Chair and CEO of the World Foundation for Children, parent organization of the Volunteer
Farms, said the lack of volunteers is threatening the crops.“We will be
harvesting up to about the middle of October, but it is the next few weeks that
of major concern.”
