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The Society of St. Andrew helps find food sources for the hungry. One way is by having volunteers go back into harvested orchards and fields to pick up the leftovers…fruits and vegetables that are still edible…but left behind because they don’t meet commercial standards. This is called gleaning, and it’s work that delivers delicious results. |
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SCRIPT:
Jim Douglas / Director, Bowie Mission: “Any time that we get apples, it’s just like a Christmas present for us to be able to be the go between the grower or the donator and those that are going to receive it.”
Dory: “I love it…apples are my favorite fruit.”
Dory, Patricia, and Sandy have come to the Bowie Mission today to pick up food supplies.
Nat Sound: “They’re good! They are.”
Whenever a food bank can offer fresh produce …it’s thankfully received.
Patricia: “They don’t get fruit very often.”
Nat Sound (picking apples): “Joey, you need to get up there and get those high ones.”
This is where the apples came from just hours ago, Douglas Reynolds’ orchard. A late freeze and hail made for a poor crop this year.
Douglas Reynolds / Apple Grower: “It’s a good thing to know I can have these people come in and some good can come from apples that I can’t profit by.”
Nat Sound (picking apples): “My first apple gleaning…I like this.”
The fruit may not suit the commercial market…but it can benefit a lot of people.
Fred Fink / Society of St. Andrew: “We are going to take this immediately to an orphanage…to a food bank…and to a shelter.”
Nat Sound (picking apples): “Oh gosh…that’s a pretty one.”
Ralph Goings / Society of St. Andrew: “What we call it is a stewardship ministry…meaning this is God’s gift and we are just seeing this gift is passed onto people who are hungry.”
It’s a harvest for those in need…
Nat Sound (picking apples): “We pretty much cleaned this one out.”
…one bushel at a time.
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Each year, The Society of Saint Andrew collects an average of 20 million pounds of produce…fruits and vegetables that otherwise would have gone to waste. They operate nearly year round across the U.S. For more information you can go to their website at http://www.endhunger.org.