New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas Fisher said the New Jersey Agricultural Society, Bushels of Blessings and the Foodshed Alliance will share a $100,000 Gleaning Support Grant.
The grant, according to a news release, was made possible through the Department of Agriculture’s State Food Purchase Program.
“New Jersey’s extremely generous farmers regularly give back to their communities by allowing organizations to pick and collect surplus produce that might have gone to waste and in turn, donate the produce to emergency feeding agencies,” Secretary Fisher said in the release. “This funding will go a long way to helping these three gleaning organizations continue to collect and distribute this healthy food to those in need.”
The department gives Gleaning Support Grants to eligible non-profit entities that are gleaning from New Jersey farms and distributing gleaned food to New Jersey organizations to help feed New Jersey’s hungry.
